Originally Posted by James
Originally Posted by TensawRiver
I usually get into a good pile of bream or crappie where I find a gator just hanging out at down here in the swamp north of 65. Been a dog hunting club in the swamp as long as I can remember, never heard of a dog being eaten. I camp on the sand bars on the Alabama River, not as many gators as you'll see south of there.

Biggest Gada i ever seen in the wild was at Gravine island, we camped out there (yeah know ya not supposed too lol) one night about 30 years ago, woke up just as sun was coming up and it was foggy, was checking some poles then seen what thought was a mud tire floating, was until i seen the rest of what it was 😳 That had a massive slide where she/he been coming up on the island, and of course by 12 it was loaded with folks. As far dogs i know of a few, one feller kept getting hits on his dogs collar then it disappear, finally figured out what happened, big Ol Gator had a spot in a deep ditch where the pigs n deer would cross, and just so happened to snag a pooch when he was trailing a Deer. I remember when i was young we was down on the Causeway bream fishing and there was a Big Gator just laying there in the water with it's mouth half open and the brims was just jumping in it's mouth! Hell it was catching more than us lol.

There was a monster in Big Briar that would occasionally hang out on the mud bar just around the first bend north of the railroad trestle. I’ve seen a bunch of huge ones, but this one was truly prehistoric. Saw him twice, same spot. He was smart too. Both times I was running wide open and as soon as I could shut it down and come off plane, he was in the water and down on the bottom, never to surface within view. Swore both times he was almost as long as my bass boat.

Last edited by abolt300; 08/02/26 02:49 PM.