redkneck Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 Some of you may remember my story last year where my dad shot a turkey on the last day of the season only to have him get airborne and crash into a slough a short distance away where a gator quickly came to take him down. Coming from my dad I know it was the complete truth. My best friend told me one at the camp at the end of deer season I was going to post on here but forgot to. A close friend of his (who is also a pastor) was duck hunting back in January when we had a lot of extremely cold temps at a local reservoir that is managed by the corp of engineers. He was walking along the edge of the ice and there was this mass on the ice he thought was a big mushroom. He kicked it and turned out it was the tip of a gator's nose sticking through the ice and the thing lunged up out of the ice at him. I can't say what happened next cuz I'm sure it broke a few laws lol. Knowing the person I got it from, I'd say the story was accurate, though I would have thought a gator wouldnt make it in those temps. Anyone out there ever heard of anything like that? I have seen them in cold water and even had to shoot one myself once as a kid that was after my retreiver. I called the park office and they had to call the Mobile office and then later told me to just keep my mouth shut about it. :taped: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 Don't know John. Our wildlife folks admit now that we have them around, hope the deep freeze we have had this year has wiped out any gators we might have had around us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted March 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 William you can find alligators anywhere and anytime here now. From public lakes to private ponds they are everywhere. Two years ago I took the girls to Lake Claude Bennett which is only 20 miles from my house. Every cast we made the gators would attack our corks and follow them up all the way to the pier and jump out of the water when I pulled my bait up. The kids got so scared we had to leave. People make a big mistake by feeding them. They finally killed/relocated most of them and the last time I was there I only saw about 3 total. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted March 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 I just did a c/p from crocsite.com "Alligators can even survive freezing conditions. In freezing rivers, they will rise above the surface, to breathe through the ice as it forms. In extreme cases, they get frozen into the surface of the pond for several days and then swim free when the ice melts. " So I see the story is most likely true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 Yeah, don't know John, was not sure how they manage extended periods of temps never making it above freezing. River here froze up pretty good and stayed frozen for better than a week. Our state wildlife officials have confirmed that there have been gators found in lakes in Memphis. Around the time the state acknowledged them being here they changed our regs on species not regulated under hunting seasons and made it so that any species not listed is not legal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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