On the Alabama River at Miller's Ferry





Have coon and squirrel hunted in that Flint Creek area on the TVA land. Always thought that backwater and woods was perfect for gators.

I didn't see it, but heard multiple matching reports of a large dead one floating in Lay last year.

I've always heard supposed sightings of gators on Logan Martin, but never anything tangible.

Seen one on Wheeler in a break off down from paper mill over 40 years ago. Columbus Lake on Tombigbee is full of them. Cousin killed one a few years ago during Mississippi season below Columbus lock 11'8 ft.475lbs.

I’ve been in the water with the gators on Wheeler. They are indeed reproducing without issue.

https://youtu.be/sWqg6B-taUg

They just want to be friendly!

I know the general area that big bull stays around the I-65 bridge. The Decatur Daily wrote an article on him that said he was 16 feet (he's not, he's 13.5 tops, or at least he was last time i laid eyes on him which was the summer of 2019). That article was the worst thing that ever happened for the gator population in Wheeler. Ever Bubba that's ever thought he was a Swamper (and not the kind that plays studio music for Aretha) was out there shining every night trying to poach em a gator. It was pitiful.

Supposedly they put 550 gators there to control beavers. When the news finally got out, they hired a man to trap them. He caught 5. Then they said that they wouldn't survive the winter. But they did. Then they said that they wouldn't reproduce, they lied again.

I think there is one or two in lake eufaula. Actually it is more like one or two per acre. We got within 30 feet of several this weekend while crappie fishing in the chewable creek area.

It wasn't 550 and I don't believe even 50. But the rest of the story about the released gators being put in for beaver control and the trapper was what I heard, too.

They reproduce. I've seen the babies, and have seen nests. I saw one in the mid-80s while fishing with a friend. We cast at what we thought was a log and it submerged, and we about crapped our drawers. There's not a bajillion of them in there but there's enough.

The one I seen in Lay was just north of the dam.

I live along the arsenal And ditto area. An arsenal bomb safety instructor told us 40 were released for beaver control on the Arsenal. They started reproducing. Sent a team to catch them to remove them and they only caught 16 and quit. I have spent a lot of time on the river from the arsenal to g ville dam. I have only seen 2 since 1995. These 2 were together. About 4ft long. In a swamp area on the east side if arsenal about 100 yards off the tenn river bank. Just down stream from ditto landing. Back in 2003 a friend showed a pic he took of an 8fter on a log in the flint river not far from the tenn river.

keeps them ditch pickle ate up 😁