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Alligator Hunting
A Lake Eufaula alligator that was measured at 14-feet, 1.75-inches by WRD Technician Matt Skinner will likely set a new bar for Georgia’s state-record gator after paperwork goes through its normal process. The previous state-record hunter harvested Georgia gator came from in Lake Seminole in 2013. That gator measured 13-feet, 10.75 inches long and was caught by…
By Casey Grover Like every year, we all wait on the email stating whether we were successful or not with being selected for an alligator tag for Georgia. In this case, numerous people were disappointed they weren’t selected, but two individuals were on the opposite end of the spectrum: Kyle Daniel and Sean Dudish. On…
By Sheena Wilson I have been hunting for many years alongside my dad. Last August, I embarked on an alligator hunt, something I have been trying to do for six years. We started our journey on Friday morning, Aug. 17. We decided we would take our motor home, and we were planning on getting there…
An earlier-than-normal deadline for alligator quota hunts highlights the beginning of the 2019-2020 hunting season for those who play the quota-hunt lottery game. WRD began accepting applications for all their quota hunts this morning, and a July 15 deadline for alligator quota hunts means it’s time to begin making plans. “Because quota hunts allow a…
An alligator that measured 13-feet, 4-inches long recently had to be put down, according to Brent Howze, a WRD biologist in southwest Georgia. The large gator that could easily have been 50 years old was found by a farmer in an irrigation ditch in the Parker Slough area in the upper western portions of Lake Blackshear…
Georgia’s 16th alligator season is now in the books. We reached out to WRD’s alligator expert Greg Waters to see how the season went, and he reported that the season numbers had yet to be crunched, and he didn’t make a comment on how he thinks the overall season may have fared. However, 2018 hunters…
On Saturday, Sept. 16, Randy Hand, of Bainbridge, his wife, oldest brother, and father went on Lake Seminole to go gator hunting, and they killed an alligator that measured 13-feet, 4-inches long and was weighed at a whopping 680 pounds on certified scales at Elberta Crate and Box Company. Randy and his family have been…
On the evening of Thursday, Sept. 13, Jerrod McDaniel, of Hazlehurst, killed a 13-foot Ocmulgee River alligator in Zone 5 near the town of Jacksonville. Jerrod is one of 100 who received a permit to hunt this zone. Jerrod was hunting with his dad Dennis, who was the actual gator tag holder, and his buddy…
Don Oates and Bruce Rucker, both of Lumpkin, made their first gator season a very difficult one to top. They killed an 11-foot, 5-inch beast from Lake Eufaula on Aug. 24. Their hunt started about 5 p.m. in the Florence Marina area where they spotted a gator 100 yards off the Georgia bank. “He went…
After five years of patient and anxious waiting, Brian Walton, of Hillsboro, finally got drawn for a Georgia gator hunting tag. The wait was certainly worth it when Brian was able to harvest a 600-lb., 11-foot, 3-inch alligator the night of Aug. 20 while hunting in the Oconee River near Toomsboro in Wilkinson County. Brian…