Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

I was buttoning up the boat last night, and I had an audience...not the usual audience of people that rode on the boat, and now are relaxing on the deck with a drink while I clean up, but a different visitor.

Awesome!

We had a bear clean out our suet feeders (for the birds) while we were out last week. They were six feet off the ground... Well, at least they were, until the bear snapped the chains they were hanging from!

WOW! If we had Gators in Lake Lanier my wife would make me sell the boat, and I'm serious.

We see gators here from time to time but the good old boys do tend to keep them thinned out.
They find one floating, skinned out, without a head and tail every once in a while
Gator tail is good eating

I really expect Mr Ed to get hit by a gator some day. He investigates anything he sees swimming in the water. I will kill that one.

Our Parish has a gator guy, who had no interest in removing this one. he has been in the canal for a week, trying to get up on our neighbors dock.

Wow, that looks huge. As I try to sort out the picture, I am led to this question. Is he standing up and dancing, or leaning on a short stool while slapping his knee?

We have black bear visitors at our North Georgia campground--two bear families. Last year, they got my electric cooler/refrigerator with one swat of a paw.

I had to go out and get a mini-refrigerator to put inside the RV.

What we need is a couple of good yapping dogs to keep'em away. My pit bull and rottweiler are not allowed in the campground.

Sorry, the pic does make it look big. It was about 4.5 or 5 feet total. I had some Jimmy Buffet playing on the boat, and I think he was digging the music.

pontchartraintoon wrote:Our Parish has a gator guy, who had no interest in removing this one. he has been in the canal for a week, trying to get up on our neighbors dock.

The guys around here just drop a chicken thigh out there on a big boat rod, drag the gator up to the boat and put a couple .22 rounds in the cap. It quiets them right down.

pontchartraintoon wrote:Sorry, the pic does make it look big. It was about 4.5 or 5 feet total. I had some Jimmy Buffet playing on the boat, and I think he was digging the music.

Umm, that's not big???

The 5 footers are usually the most dangerous. It may be because people think they are too small to hurt them and they screw with the gator or just that they are faster and a little more aggressive at that age.
Those are the ones that bite the most people tho. On the other hand you are more likely to be killed by the 10-12 footers if they do decide to eat you.

And they are fast too. Both on land and in the water.

Damn Ponch.... that's scarey..... down here in Louisiana we have gators all over the place... we boat almost exclusively in Caddo lake, and on more than one occasion I've seen one swimming by off in the distance...... once last year we were fishing in some shallow water and we were tearing em up.. one right after another.. but then this guy in a little jon boat comes by and his kids ( about 4 of them ) jump out and start playing in the water.. at first I was fine with it because they were a good ways away, but then they started drifting closer and closer and all of a sudden the fish just quit biting because of the kids splashing around... after a minute or two I yelled to my wife on the back of the boat and said " don't hang your feet off in the water, I just saw a 6 foot gator swim by.. man, those kids got back in thier daddy's boat in about 15 seconds and took off... my wife said... "where did you see that gator".. I just winked... no gator..

This is my wife taping the mouth of one they caught in the neighborhood where she was building houses.



I hit this one with a golf ball.

I took a drop.

This is a new Mississippi state record. 697.5 pounds. Caught in September this year.