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IMPORTANT PART OF ALLIGATOR SEASON. AND UHH OBVIOUSLY WE'VE BEEN USING THESE HOOKS FOR YEARS, AND IT'S TIME TO GET THEM ALL SHARPENED UP. SOT YEARS AGO, ALLIGATORS WERE NEARLY HUNTED TO EXTINCTION. UHHH AND NOW THE REASON WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES HAS REOPENED ALLIGATOR SEASON IS BECAUSE THE POPULATION HAS GOTTEN A LITTLE BIT OUT OF WHACK AND THERE'S A LOT MORE ALLIGATORS OUT THERE THAN YOU COULD POSSIBLY IMAGINE. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SOME, SOME REALLY GOOD ASSISTANCE. NOW I CAN TRULY TELL YOU THE BEST ASSISTANT I'VE EVER HAD WITH OUR LARGEST ALLIGATOR WHICH WAS 697LBS WAS MY DAUGHTER, AND SHE WAS OUT THERE WITH US AND THAT WAS AROUND THE TIME WE HAD TO HUNT AT NIGHT. -SOT- I TRY AND REEL IT IN, I TRY AND REEL IN THE ALLIGATOR SOMETIMES. -SOT- I REALLY ENJOY MY FAMILY BEING HERE WITH ME AND JUST EXPERIENCING THAT WEIGHT TO SEE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HARVEST ONCE WE'RE OUT HERE. ALLIGATOR HUNTING RUNS THROUGH NOON SEPTEMBER NINTH. ANOTHER CLOSE CALL AT A SCHO

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