Originally Posted by Hastings
I used to go catch them out of folks' yards when I was a game warden. A big gator isn't that hard to handle when he is not in the water. We would put a lariat rope on a big one and just wear him out. I would get up in the back of the truck and let him fight the rope while I held on. We used to relocate them several miles away but they often came back home to cause more trouble or cause trouble at their new home. Louisiana has nuisance alligator hunters licensed to take gators all year so I got to where I would tie one off to a tree and call the hunter to come send him to the boot factory or where ever they send them. A gator visiting humans is not a good thing and it often gets started with fish cleaning. When they hear the electric fillet knives start up here they come. Then they end up killing dogs or sunning on your patio.



Looking at the deep claw marks and smoothed off floor boards in my boathouse I believe I’ve got a large visitor there from time to time.

At my old camp on lower Grand River some years back I got a rope on one that stayed on my floating dock and I towed him with the boat several water miles away and cut the rope. He was back 2 weeks later with the rope still on him. The gator hunters got him that September.

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