Found one of the videos I made a couple of years ago of a alligator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4NxhCrjD5EThe farmer was upset that I released the alligator. He was longer than what I am allowed to relocate under my permit.
Alligators are in all of our drainages. Very few folks want them around. Many have made sugggestions to raise the number of public permits issued. They have a way of determining how many public permits to issue. I believe it is flawed. When you have over a couple hundred thousand animals that 99% of the landowners don,t want and your average yearly harvest, over the last ten years is less than 300, something is wrong.
I believe our drought has affected the way they do their counting, making the numbers appear differently than what they are.
Florida is saturated with them. I have heard several stories from a friend of mine who is over a management area for the state. He said hunters have witnessed alligators with freshly caught deer. Maybe they were just stories.
He has been on night countings down there and said there were hundreds to be seen. He said sometimes it is almost unbelieveable. I have seen hundreds in just a short while on lake Okachobee, one night several years ago, while getting an airboat tour from a friend.