Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Lake Tarpon has a shit ton of gators.
Lake Hancock out east of me is also loaded with them.
Most of the recovered Mosaic land has a stupid amount of them too.

Hell, it's Florida. Gators are everywhere.

Couple of small lakes (ponds) on the range complex. I regularly see what I think are the same two gators. Owner recently had a trapper pull a few out. Range master said he saw him call in dozen in the short time he watched.

I live just off a lake a bout two miles in circumference. Surprised I’ve never seen any there, but I suspect the waterfront residents had them removed years ago.
 
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Couple of small lakes (ponds) on the range complex. I regularly see what I think are the same two gators. Owner recently had a trapper pull a few out. Range master said he saw him call in dozen in the short time he watched.

I live just off a lake a bout two miles in circumference. Surprised I’ve never seen any there, but I suspect the waterfront residents had them removed years ago.

Yeah, usually when they reach >6', someone calls a FWC trapper to remove a nuisance gator because they don't want fluffy to become gator turds.
We'd get them in the ponds in our old neighborhood and as soon as they would hit the magic mark, the trapper would show up.
We had lots of young kids, so I sort of get it, but personally, I'd live with them.

The smaller gators just seemed to disappear. I'd guess someone was catching and killing them.
 
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Yeah, usually when they reach >6', someone calls a FWC trapper to remove a nuisance gator because they don't want fluffy to become gator turds.
We'd get them in the ponds in our old neighborhood and as soon as they would hit the magic mark, the trapper would show up.
We had lots of young kids, so I sort of get it, but personally, I'd live with them.

The smaller gators just seemed to disappear. I'd guess someone was catching and killing them.

If they are anything like our Saltwater Crocodiles down here they are damn good eating, just don't get caught....
 
If Floridians would focus instead on catching and killing invasive species like Iguanas, Pythons, Komodos, Monitors, etc., we'd be a lot better off.
The biggest hurdle to controlling the pythons is the stupid limitations on how you're allowed to kill them.

It's like, hey, kill the pythons. BUT, don't do it this way, or that way, or like this.
You can kill them with this, but not that.
It's fucking retarded.


If we had iguanas and the like here east of Tampa, I'd be chasing them all the time.

In my neighborhood, I get bobcats, coons, deer and bunnies, but not much else. I did see a hen turkey once.
 
Yeah, usually when they reach >6', someone calls a FWC trapper to remove a nuisance gator because they don't want fluffy to become gator turds.
We'd get them in the ponds in our old neighborhood and as soon as they would hit the magic mark, the trapper would show up.
We had lots of young kids, so I sort of get it, but personally, I'd live with them.

The smaller gators just seemed to disappear. I'd guess someone was catching and killing them.
Bigger gators?
 
Bigger gators?


Yeah, they get much bigger. Like >13'.

Here's a 10'4" and a 10'7" side by side-ish. That's an 8' in the middle.

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Me next to my 10-4.

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Me with my 10-4.

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2 hours worth of hunting.

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Oh, and just so everyone knows the source of this when they see it...

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