Allan,
When I was a kid in Loosieanna I actually did catch a 5' gator intentionally
by snagging him and dragging him in, using a spinning rod. Walked the
tracks through the Bonnet Carre spillway to get him & waded for hours
stalking it. Kept him for a pet for months until he bit me and died of
blood poisoning. They aren't that tough after all.
DonO
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From: Allan Fish
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 7:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [VFB] Roll call
On 12/2/13, 9:57 PM, Don Ordes wrote:
Allan,
I’m not “little” yet by a long cry, but I don’t think Buggs would
recognize me right off. Did ya catch any gators on the fly? Should’a asked
me for my ‘gator-fly’. I would have sent it.
Don,
Actually, now that you mention it, I DID have one LDR.
We fished a lot of the pools on Loop Road (South of the Tamiami Trail -
maybe actually the old Trail, for all I know). Every time we'd catch a
fish (mainly small warmouth), the gators would come out to see if they
could take it away. I had one near miss - the gator lunged just as I
lifted the fish out of the water. He missed.
At the time I was tossing a small yellow bass popper. On one cast, an
unexpected gust of wind blew the popper and line off to the right. My
fly line was laying over a medium-sized (6-8 foot) gator's back. I
flipped the line to try to get the popper off and - oops - the plug
stuck in the gator's back. The gator didn't know he was hooked. I tried
a couple of times to flip the popper out with a roll cast as the gator
obligingly sat still and watched. Then I gave a tug on the line. He
turned around and slowly went the other way - effortlessy. The more I
pulled, the faster he went. Fortunately, the line broke at the popper
knot. Gonna have to work on my knots, I guess. Although I'd rather have
it break there than anywhere.
Anyway, there's now one gator in Big Cypress Swamp that has a bright
yellow spot on his/her back. That oughta be good for the biologists to
try to figger out. <G>
Al
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