ST. LUCIE, FL – A 19-year-old Florida student, reeled in a 12-foot, 3-inch, 800-pound alligator!
Tim Stroh caught the gator while boating on the St. Lucie County Canal on Sept. 16,
Stroh, his parents, and a regular customer at the Stroh family taxidermy shop took out a boat after getting a tip about a giant gator. Within an hour, they encountered a gator that might very well be the Moby Dick of Hobe Sound.
Using what his dad described to the paper as a “puny bass rod,” Stroh somehow pulled the gator near their boat. He then reportedly shot it with a “bang stick” — a tube-like firearm often utilized to subdue gators and sharks.
The gator hunters harpooned the reptile and lifted it onto their boat.
“He had a lot of character, and I had a lot of fun,” Stroh said.
The Stroh family has lots of experience hunting alligators, but this catch is twice the weight of their previous best.
They plan to mount the gator’s head on the teen’s wall, make keychains from its back, turn its leg into a lamp and eat their way through 250 pounds of gator meat
It’s certainly a big haul — but it’s nothing compared to the Giant Crocodile captured alive by villagers in the Philippines earlier this month.
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My evil mind sees things…how many people have thrown themselves to such creatures because they wanted out??
Gators and many other big creatures as in long ago times may have been half ghosts and half material – this accounting for many unexplained phenomenon in the animal kingdom. Who MAY have had a lot to do with altering nature in the past for the benefit of modern humans? Extraterrestrials with their lasers.