It's the final week of gator season...
I'm running out of patience.
Every alligator counts at this point.
...and hunters will do anything
to win the competition...
Aah!
chasing the swamp's most diabolical monsters...
I've been after him a long, long time.
We need those 350 tags.
and venturing farther into the unknown.
We're gonna do a little dancing with the Devil, buddy.
Ghost stories, voodoo stuff, that stuff is real out here.
But these beasts won't go down without a fight.
Aah! Uh!
Aah!
Oh, my God! It popped the line!
♪
In seven days, one team will win 350 new tags.
Let's go get it, cuz.
Ready to roll, baby.
And everyone's fired up.
We gotta go to work.
It's now or never.
The Edgars stand tall with the highest season average,
while the Landrys are deadlocked
with Leron, Porkchop and Bruce for second place.
Ronnie and Ashley, along with Willie Edwards,
are nipping at their heels.
Over in Bayou Long...
It's do or die, Pee-wee.
It's a pivotal day for Troy and Pickle,
who are in second place.
This morning they've already got four gators
from an area Troy has been fishing for decades
and knows like the back of his hand.
Bayou Long is a long, winding river
that goes for a few miles,
and it passes through some real deep swamp
on each side of it,
swamp that never dry up.
And really, it's good alligator habitat, it's prime.
It's what I consider a honey hole.
[horn blasts]
What is that?
Tugboat. It's an oil barge.
An oil barge?
[chuckles] That's something new.
Oh, they pass through here a lot.
[horn blasts]
Tugboats travel Bayou Long.
They go to them oil wells
and they fill up them barges with crude oil,
and then they bring that to a port.
[horn blasts]
Well, Pee-wee, after them big boats pass,
they stir up the bottom and they kill a lot of fish.
And normally right after they pass, you can watch.
If there's a big alligator around,
he's gonna be coming to scoop up the fish.
Huh.
The big propellers hit the bottom,
and they kill a lot of fish.
So when they go in there with them tugboats
and they kill all the fish,
well, it's a buffet for the alligators.
That's crazy to see a big old barge like that.
Let's move on.
Tight to the right.
Ooh, that limb's about to break.
See the limb?
Yeah. It look like he went around the tree.
What we got, Pee-wee?
It's hung up down there.
Oh, wait.
Oh, my God!
Whoo!
-Pee-wee, say when, when, when! -Shoot!
Uh! Ooh!
Whoo!
Shoot!
[gunshot]
Whoo.
That's what I'm talking about, Pee-wee.
Here we go!
Keep going.
One, two, three.
Hold it, hold it.
This 12-footer is exactly what Troy expected to catch
in Bayou Long,
and it may help the Landrys claw their way back to the top.
It's the end of the season,
we are behind in the competition,
and we really need to pick it up.
We catching some big alligators,
and it's really bringing up our average.
These big ones
are really boosting us ahead of the competition,
and I think we're doing all right now.
We putting ourselves in a pretty spot.
He's a big one, that's for sure.
Mm-hmm.
In Marais Fantome...
Leron Jones and Anthony "Porkchop" Williams
start the day tied for second place,
and they've come up with a daring plan to get to first.
The area we going at, that's her section.
You know, they got huge gators over there.
Miss Julia Brown was a voodoo queen.
She lived in a small town
deep in the swamp around New Orleans.
According to some accounts,
she had a falling out with the townsfolk.
For revenge, she put a curse on 'em.
On the day of her funeral,
a deadly hurricane struck the area,
wiping out the town and everyone in it.
Down here in Louisiana,
we believe in ghost stories, voodoo stuff.
That stuff is real out here.
I know for sure we gonna catch some big gators in here,
and that's a gamble we gotta take.
To see a spirit or catch a spirit,
at least I'd rather have some big gators.
I see it right up there to the lefthand.
Yeah.
-There we go. Now! -Whoo!
Watch yourself, watch yourself. He's trying to bite the hook.
I got him, I got him.
Give me a shot, Porkchop.
Cuz, I'm gonna try and get you one, eh?
Gonna get him outta there.
I'ma get him out of there, cuz.
That's one pissed-off gator, huh?
[gunshot]
Whoo! Man.
-Come on, come on. -I got him now.
You get the back legs.
Get the back. There you go.
A nine-foot gator is a good start,
but Porkchop is still wary of the cursed swamp.
I don't like being in an area that's spooky,
but we still got a job to do, you know.
But deep down inside, man,
I ain't want to be over there at all, bro.
I want to hurry up and get the hell from over there.
I ain't worrying about Miss Julia Brown today, brother.
We gonna make this happen, Porkchop.
In Bayou Black...
I shot at a really good gator years ago
and hit him right below the eye.
Daniel hopes to retain first place
by going after a huge gator he's been after for years.
I didn't get him. I hit him, just ricocheted him.
I've been after this alligator a long time.
A long time.
We gonna get him. We gotta end it.
For a long time, this alligator
had just been killing all the other alligators around.
Never could get him.
I named him the Pirate
'cause he's been taking whatever he wanted.
We really need to get the Pirate.
Number one, I've been after him a long, long time.
Number two, we need those 350 tags.
We're gonna set for this alligator,
we're gonna chum for him,
and if we get him, I'm gonna show you.
He's gonna have a scar right below his eye.
After years without catching the Pirate,
Daniel has a new plan of attack.
This chum, see all the oil just bursting up into the water?
Alligator's gonna smell that,
it's gonna pull him out of the swamp.
We're gonna leave this one right here,
set us a few lines here,
and we've got another chum bag
that we're gonna set in another area.
Let's do it. Let's go to work.
I know he's down this swamp, somewhere down these canals.
The challenge is he's in a secure place somewhere.
We're gonna set our chum bags
and strategically set a couple of lines,
just let this odor go.
We're gonna have to pull him to us.
-Oh, pa, I'm telling you. -That's gonna get him.
Over on Flat Lake,
Ashley "Deadeye" Jones and her deckhand Anna Ribbeck
have secured tags for some deep water
where Ashley has hunted before.
The reason that they get so big down here
is just because the water's deeper.
Plus there's not as much traffic.
People aren't coming through there
flying with ski boats or anything like that.
I'm going where I know
that we've caught big gators in the past.
The big gators like the deeper water
because they can't be seen as easily.
Line's down, Ashley.
Come on, big gators.
Is it pulled tight or is it slack?
Can't tell yet.
Talk to me, Anna.
Ashley, it's a big one. Get the gun!
-Whoa! Whoo! -Hold on to him!
Pull him up, pull him up, pull him up.
I'm trying!
-Watch his mouth, Anna. -Can you get a shot?
-Pull him up! -Come on, Ash!
Dang, he almost grabbed the gun.
Come on! Oh!
Don't let him grab the gun, don't let him grab the gun!
Oh!
It popped the line!
Oh, my God!
He took the gun, Anna.
All right, you got your pistol?
What are you doing?
I gotta get the gun back.
You are freaking crazy.
You don't know where this gator is.
Ashley, be careful.
It went in right here, right? Did he sling it hard?
It just went in right there.
Oh, God.
-Oh, crap. Be watching for him. -I'm watching.
Oh, my God, I don't like this at all.
You feel it?
It does kind of drop off back here.
I can't...
I got it.
You got it?
Hurry, get back in this boat.
You are freaking crazy.
Well, if I didn't see right where it was,
we'd lose the spot.
Everything all looks the same, you know.
The gator grabbed the gun from me,
so it's ultimately my responsibility
to go back in and get the gun.
One thing about being a captain is that if something happens,
it's a situation that you have to solve for yourself,
and this is one of 'em.
Not only is that gator strong, but he is smart.
I've never had a gator piss me off this bad.
Meanwhile, in Houma,
historical weapon enthusiast Black Rambo
answers the call from an unusual source.
I got a call from my grandpa today, man.
I'm gonna head on over there, see what he talking about.
I love my grandfather.
I mean, I bring him food every week.
We always do stuff. I'm always checking in on him.
Man, heck, he's 82 years old.
I gotta make sure he's all right, man.
You know, he always took care of me.
I'ma take care of him.
So when Grandpa calls, I come running.
What do you say, Grandpa? What you got going on today?
Man, you sitting in the back today, huh?
Man, what you got here?
Oh, this thing look like a classic, Grandpa. Man.
Oh, you got a sock over it?
Whoa!
This is a black powder gun, Grandpa?
What in the world you got here?
Oh, my goodness.
The black powder rifle, also known as a buffalo rifle,
is a single-shot firearm
using a cartridge containing black powder.
This long gun was popular among 19th century hunters
and famous for its accuracy, especially at long range.
Where you got this from?
Golly. Grandpa, this look like it's from the 1800s.
They got brass on here.
Look at the details all on the trigger guard.
This like an antique.
Man, I never knew you had something like this, man.
I never knew that.
Oh, yeah.
When my grandfather actually told me
that that gun was gonna be mine, I got goosebumps.
Like, I could actually feel my grandfather inside of this, man.
And it's gonna be mine?
It just was like a blessing, you know,
to hear that from my grandfather, you know.
Squirrel hunting?
I didn't know you squirrel hunt.
When's the last time you squirrel hunt?
A couple years ago? I'll take you.
You know how to cook it?
I'm gonna have to call my sister,
see if she know how to cook it.
We go hunt 'em,
and then we gonna find somebody to cook 'em,
and then we eat 'em.
Sounds like a plan.
Over in Bayou Long,
Troy and Pickle's sweet start to the day has soured.
Okay, Pee-wee, keep your eyes open.
Oh, the bait's still hanging.
The honey hole isn't living up to expectations.
It has been hours since they've caught a gator.
Chicken hanging.
Whoo.
What the heck is going on over here?
Pee-wee and I are hunting in Bayou Long,
and Bayou Long is a lot of swamp,
got miles of swamp on each side of the bayou.
Normally it's a honey hole. Normally we do real good here.
I've never been to Bayou Long that it let us down.
It's letting us down for the first time ever.
What's that smell, huh? You smell that?
It's fish. Look at the dead fish.
God, that's nasty, huh?
That's them big tugboats.
The propellers stir up the bottom.
Oh.
Muddies up the water so bad it kill the fish.
Look at them all floating over there.
That's disgusting.
It's kind of sad, really.
Every time a big tugboat pass.
And then it draws the alligators.
It draws the alligators 'cause they smell the fish.
And we ain't catching no alligators
because they got all this dead fish.
They got free food. Why go for the chicken?
Same thing after a hurricane.
They got dead fish everywhere,
you ain't gonna catch nothin'.
Right.
We gotta pick up and move
our whole set of lines from this area to another area
because there's dead fish everywhere,
and it's gonna take four or five days
for these fish to go away.
We're trying to offer 'em a salad on a steak buffet.
Ain't gonna happen.
Stinks.
In Marais Fantome...
Leron and Porkchop are hunting in an area
where legend has it a voodoo queen destroyed an entire town.
I don't know too much of the details why she did it,
but I heard might be on top of some graves or something, too.
All that Julia Brown stuff,
it's hard for me to believe that happened,
but they say that's her curse.
So just to be in an area
where a hurricane came and flood the town,
there's all kinds of spooky stuff in the swamp, man.
[strange squawking]
We gonna be all right, buddy.
Man.
Right there.
Yeah.
Whoa.
Tie it up on that thing.
Yeah, we ain't gonna fight him in his own territory.
He right there, he right there.
Come on, cuz. Whoa!
Whoa!
Cuz!
-Chop! -I got this, y'all.
I got him.
Leron and Porkchop battle a beast.
Oh!
He don't wanna get tired. Chop!
I got this, y'all. I got him, I got him.
Right there, cuz.
[gunshot]
That's a big one there, Chop.
Catching alligators so big,
can't even get 'em in the boat, Porkchop.
I don't know if this place is cursed or haunted
or nothing like that,
but we surer in hell is catching very well.
Oh, man.
In Bayou Black...
-Hey, pa? -Hmm?
I really think we're close to him.
Daniel and Dorien are trying
to lure a behemoth out of hiding
they call the Pirate.
This is where he's staying.
There are no alligators, nothin'.
This is his home.
This could be home for him, papa.
You know, I've been after the Pirate
for a lot of years,
and I've tried many different things,
but I've got so much confidence in these chum bags.
Even humans, when we smell something that we like,
we pay attention.
Chum works for everything that's alive.
There's no reason why it's not gonna work on the Pirate.
He's gonna smell it, and he's gonna come to the food.
That's him. Look.
-Get a gun. -Yeah, shoot him!
Use something to brace yourself.
He's not scared. Let him come up.
Yeah, I know.
Don't take your time. The boat's moving.
[gunshot]
You got him, pa.
Get your hook ready.
Get your hook. Grab him with your hook, pa.
Hurry! He's sinking.
-I got him. -Pull hard.
Don't give him no slack.
It's over, bubba.
-I got him. -You got him.
Ooh.
He might roll. Watch him.
Oh, no, he's done, pa. It's over.
Good shot, good shot.
Let's go up with him.
Yeah, this is a nice one, pa, but it's not the Pirate.
It's not him, pa.
-It's not him, huh? -It's a nice alligator.
This is not the Pirate, but at 11 feet,
this giant may help keep the Edgars in first place,
and Daniel has not given up on catching his old nemesis.
Perseverance, it's more important than luck.
It is the most important thing
because I don't care how lucky you are
or how good you are.
If you don't have the staying power
to stay and come back and come back,
obviously you're not gonna succeed.
Just keep coming back.
Sooner or later you're gonna win.
If we get the Pirate, we'll probably win this thing
because it's gonna put our average where we need it.
Back on Flat Lake...
Is that a gator head right there?
Where?
Right across the lake.
Ashley and Anna are out for revenge
on the beast that popped their line
and snatched their rifle.
It went down.
That was a big-ass head.
This gator's doing everything he can
to keep us from killing him.
It was like he knew I needed the gun to kill him.
I'm killing this gator.
Line looks down.
Yeah, it's straight down.
Watch out for a bump.
-Got it? -Got it.
Oh, you better be ready for a fight right here.
-Is he pulling back? -Yeah, he's pulling back.
Might be the one.
Feels like he's heavy.
-You ready? -I'm ready.
-Come on, be a big gator. -Come on, gator.
[whispers] Please be a big gator.
Oh, my God! Hold him, hold him!
Oh, my gosh!
Oh, Ash!
Whoo!
He's dragging the boat all over.
He's not giving me a shot, Anna.
Oh, my God!
He's gonna pop that line, Ashley.
I know.
Ah!
Don't let him grab the gun!
-Aah! -Don't let him grab the gun!
Oh, my God! The gun!
-Line popped, Ashley! -No!
He popped the line.
-No. -[sighs]
Not again.
Do you see the gun?
Do you think it was that same gator?
Freakin' gator. I just now got dried off.
I got your back.
Oh, God.
I can't believe I'm doing this again.
Watch out, man. He could be anywhere.
Did he fling it far?
No, I think it was just like the last time.
Ah, crap.
-I don't feel it here. -We need that gun.
All these freakin' branches like this, it's slick.
Feels like a frickin' gun barrel.
That gator's gotta be here, Ash.
Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.
You think you found it?
Yes, thank God.
I got lucky twice now.
This gator pisses me off more than anybody.
I mean, my God,
the amount of work that I've put into this,
and now he's got me looking like a fool.
This gator will be done, bagged, and tagged
at the end of the day.
This gator has not met a match like me,
and I'm pissed.
It's absolutely insane.
I mean, he took the gun twice and popped the line?
It's revenge time, huh?
Meanwhile, outside Houma,
Rambo and his grandpa head out
to hunt squirrels with a black powder rifle
that's been in their family for generations.
I can't believe we about to shoot a gun
that comes from your daddy's daddy.
-That's crazy. -Yup, yup, yup, yup.
From the 1800s, that's how old that gun is.
-Yup, yup. -That's crazy.
That's my great-great grandfather's gun.
That's an old one, buddy.
All this time you had that in your closet,
I'd have never known that.
Oh, man, you just don't know how I'm excited to shoot this thing.
I'm more excited to shoot it with my grandfather.
Bro, this thing is real, real, real old.
And he was like, I wanna shoot it with you.
Bro, do you know how that made me feel?
I'm gonna park it right here.
We're gonna get out and walk for a little while and go look.
We should be good.
Come on out.
Come on, let's go check it out down there.
Now, look, me and you gonna walk along here.
Keep your eyes open, Grandpa.
I see a couple of 'em over there.
You want the first shot, or you want me to take the first shot?
No, you can have it.
Let me load this up right quick.
Uh-huh. This gonna get all the squirrels.
Stuff it a couple times like that.
Bring it back out.
All right.
You see anything?
So I don't know the range you got on this.
I'm gonna take the shot.
I'm gonna show you how good I am, Grandpa.
Oh, man. I thought I had him.
He was dead on.
Them things fast.
Shoot. [laughs]
I don't usually miss, man. I'm a good shot.
All right, show me something.
Oh, man!
Boom!
He hit it.
Oh, man, he made me look so bad.
Hah ha! You got the first shot, Grandpa.
Mm-hmm.
I'm not gonna go home without getting me one.
You hungry?
Oh, there go one.
I told you I was gonna get me one.
Oh, I'm not going home without one.
There he go, there he go.
[laughs]
I got a big'un, Grandpa.
[laughs] I got a big boy. He healthy.
Oh, we gonna eat good today.
Oh, we gonna eat real good.
To the north, in Marais Fantome...
Oh, man.
Leron and Porkchop have caught five big gators
in an area with a dark past.
The hurricane came and flooded the town
and the town went underwater.
Hunting in her area, knowing that's her little hometown.
You see it?
Come on. I don't wanna lose him, cuz.
You gotta get him quick, cuz.
He tangled up.
I got him.
Put something in here.
[gunshot]
Oh, man. Ah!
I see him.
Come on, cuz, you gotta get a shot on him.
[gunshot]
All right.
This seven-footer hurts their chances
to return to the top spot,
and the bad news doesn't stop there.
Look at that.
Whoo, Lord, what kind that is?
The kind I don't need around me.
You know I don't like no damn spider.
Come on, man.
That Leron, he's so terrified of spiders,
you know, little bugs that be in the trees and all that stuff.
He see a spider, he just keeps slapping like.
I said, cuz, the spider ain't on you.
It was all fun and games. We joked about it.
I'm scared of spiders. People be like, "Oh, man,
them guys the toughest guys in the world.
Them guys out there muscling gators."
Guess you can't never judge a book by its cover, Porkchop.
Back in Bayou Long,
it's taken Troy and Pickle several hours
to move their lines away from a fishkill.
Now Troy is in a rush
to run them before the day is done.
Be patient.
It's a virtue, my friend.
You wanna know what patience is?
You're looking at patience right here.
Yeah.
If you look up patience in the dictionary,
gonna have a picture of Troy Landry.
I was about to say, that's what Webster needs to do.
The epitome of patience is Troy Landry.
When I realized it was a tugboat
that had passed through the bayou,
I told Pee-wee, I said we gonna pick up all our lines
and move places.
So that's what we did, we put a few lines.
You know, hopefully we can catch some big ones,
because we used to catch a lot of big alligators right here.
What we got, P, what we got?
We got something. I don't know what it is, though.
-Whoo! Hold him! -Aah!
Don't let him drag you in. Don't let him pull you in.
-I got him. I'm pulling him closer.
Whoo, it's a big one.
Show him who's the boss, Pee-wee.
Shoot, shoot!
Whoo!
Holy smokes.
This 10-foot monster is proof
that moving their lines away from the fishkill
was the right decision.
[Troy grunting]
Good, Pee-wee.
Ah! Good job.
We picked up the lines this morning,
and we came back over here, check these,
and it looks like it's gonna help.
The first line we get to we got a 10-foot alligator.
So they coming. We needed this today bad.
The virtues of patience.
I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it.
Over on Flat Lake...
I'm pissed.
Keep that same energy when we get his ass.
Ashley and Anna have caught several big gators,
but after a monster snatched their gun
and popped their line twice,
they're itching for payback.
Cannot wait to put a bullet in him.
I've always thought of myself
as a very strong person and determined person.
We both have a lot of willpower,
and we're both not gonna quit until it's done.
Line's down.
Let me get the gaff.
Tell me when you feel something. I'll grab that gun.
Oh, he's on there, Ash.
-He's on there? -He's on there.
-I got him. -You got him.
Give me a shot.
Get on this side of me. Get on this side.
-All right. -Come on.
Whoa.
All right.
Look at him. He's rolling.
-Whoa! -Aah!
Get it. Get revenge, Ashley.
I need to get on this side of you now, yeah.
[thud] Dang.
Good gosh!
[gunshot]
-Night, night! -Sleep tight!
-Whoo! -Good job.
Let's go.
This gator's not the gator that we've been looking for.
This eight-footer isn't big enough
to be the gun-stealing beast they're after,
but Ashley's not giving up on her nemesis.
This gator challenged me,
popping the line, taking our freaking gun.
I cannot wait to put a bullet in him.
We're getting this gator.
Across the bayou,
Leron and Porkchop are headed to the last line of the day
in the area said to be cursed
by the spirit of voodoo queen Julia Brown.
We gotta get the job done, though, Porkchop.
We gotta get the big gators, so...
When Porkchop gets spooked, I be messing with him.
Huh?
No, but I'm about to cut it back on.
I thought it was funny, but he didn't find it funny.
Oh, now I see the line.
-Watch yourself. -Let me see if I can--
Yeah. I'm gonna have to take that shot.
Watch yourself, boy.
-Watch yourself. -Oh, look, Chop.
Look, man! Look like the swamp thing.
Come on, man. He gonna pop the line, cuz!
-I know, I know. -Get him!
[gunshot]
You need more than that.
[gunshot]
He don't wanna die.
[gunshot]
He got me worried, man.
Them shot ain't doing nothin' to him.
[gunshot]
Come on, cuz.
[gunshot]
Pick him up. I'm gonna help you.
All right.
Pull that, pull that. Ah!
This zombie 11-footer
puts a stamp of success on their day
and keeps Leron, Porkchop, and Bruce
in the hunt for the 350 tags.
Man, cuz. Whew.
Ooh, boy.
He was pissed off.
Started making a weird noise.
And it just shook me up, buddy.
At the end of the day,
with this curse thing with Miss Julia Brown,
everybody else say it's a curse,
but look like it worked out for us,
so I'm kinda willing to come back.
In Bayou Black...
I hope this plan works for us.
Daniel and Dorien have been filling the boat,
but they're still looking for the gator they call the Pirate.
The chum's working,
but we really need to get the Pirate.
Number one, I've been after him a long, long time.
Number two, we need those 350 tags,
and that kind of alligator is gonna help our average.
-Hey, guys, how y'all doing? -Hey.
Good, good.
We were riding, going to look in an area to find the Pirate,
and I recognize a buddy of mine.
What's going on, man? Y'all been all right?
Oh, yeah.
You got a big one on a jug line?
-Yes, sir. -Anywhere close?
You want us to get him off for you?
I got some tags for this area right here.
He was at his camp to catch some catfish,
and a big alligator got on one of the jugs.
Let's go see if we can get him off the line, buddy.
If there's a big alligator there,
I'm gonna see if I can treble hook him.
Might be the Pirate.
That's him right there, Wyatt?
Let me see. I might be able to get him.
Pass close enough to him.
He's on that stump. Oh, that's him.
Hold on, pa. Let me look at him.
That look like the jug, something white.
It's the jug.
Yeah.
I got it. He's--He's on there.
That's a big alligator.
Oh, yeah, I see him, I see him, I see him.
Gaaah!
Now, that's what I'm talking about!
Hook him, hook him!
Now, listen, when you tighten up on him,
hard, hard, hard, hard.
Hard! Hard, pa.
I got him.
Let him take a little bit slack.
Hook him. Let me get the rod.
Get the gun. You're getting nervous.
I don't wanna lose him.
-Where you at, shooter? -I'm gonna shoot him.
Go, John Wick!
He's a 12-footer, pa.
Oh, let him get a litte slack.
Take him! Take him!
[gunshot]
Grab a leg or something.
I don't like to lose 'em.
All right, let's go, pa.
That's it, we got him.
This 11-footer doesn't have the scar
that would identify him as the Pirate...
Let's go.
but his size keeps them in the fight for the 350 tags.
In life nothing's perfect,
but if you're consistent and willing to work hard,
it normally pays off.
Hey, thank y'all.
Thank you, Wyatt. Thank you, Clayton.
Y'all have a good one, fellas.
Back at his grandpa's house in Houma...
Grandma's old recipe: squirrel.
Well, Sherrion, that look good.
Rambo has gathered the family
to top off a successful day of squirrel hunting
by feasting on their catch.
That taste good.
Thank you.
I had to call my sister up
because she knows how to cook it real well,
and I wanna make sure Grandpa get a good experience,
you know what I mean?
He shot it, he ate it.
That's like the best Southern experience ever
right there, man.
Mm-hmm. Whenever you want me to cook for you, Grandpa,
just let me know.
It's just this lovely feeling, man,
to have your whole family down,
eating off the land,
and I wouldn't trade it for nothing in the world.
Hey, Grandpa, I had a good time, man.
Ain't nothing like some family time together.
I didn't know squirrel taste this good.
What we going hunting for next?
Raccoon? All right, sounds like a plan.
Everybody from down the bayou like that 'coon, bro.
Over on Flat Lake...
Ooh, it's a difference in that shade and this sun, isn't it?
Feels good.
Ashley and Anna have spent the day
looking for the gun-snatching gator,
but they need a quick lunch break
before resuming their pursuit.
All right, I'm gonna get a snack.
Sounds good to me.
We like to eat.
We like to eat a lot of food.
It might not look like it,
but, man, I can plow down some chow.
Ashley, what you got there?
Fried chicken.
Where'd you get that?
From the gas station. Get you a piece.
Okay.
Every now and then
she'll bring something fancy from the gas station.
It's crazy how much weight you can lose during gator season,
but I put it on just as fast as it comes off.
Hey, look, um, with your college degree and all,
I need you to do me a favor
and figure out how to get rid of the giant Salvinia.
It's invasive and from somewhere else. I mean...
Okay.
Just a spray or something we can do.
We could be rich.
-Wouldn't that be nice? -That'd be real nice.
I'm gonna get right on that then.
We could get rid of the alligator gar while we're at.
The alligator gar?
Like, I mean, what would you wanna get rid of
if you just had the power to get rid of something?
If I had the power to get rid of some stuff?
I got a ex-boyfriend
that I'd love to just get rid of.
I'm sorry. I'm listening to you,
but I think that there's a big gator
swimming across right there.
[whispers] Give me those binoculars.
You see where that ripple is?
It's swimming against the current.
-Just a little one. -Put that chicken up.
In Bayou Black...
It's do or die time, papa. We have to make it happen.
Daniel's chum bags have yet to lure the Pirate,
but with the way they're catching,
Dorien's not sure it matters.
After all those years,
you really think that alligator's still here?
But my grandpa swears by it.
At the end of the day, we still have tags to fill,
we still have a competition.
If by any chance us hunting for Pirate,
we get his grandson or his son,
and he's a big alligator, the more the merrier.
Line's down, pa.
He feels big.
All right, let's manhandle this thing.
How big is he, pa?
Is it the Pirate, pa? Let's take a look.
-That's a good one. -Whoa.
-Gol! Ooh, yeah. -Watch him.
[thud] Oh, oh!
This could be him, pa.
Yeah, that's Pirate, pa.
Hold him, pa! Whoa! There he go!
-In Bayou Black... -Burn him!
Daniel and Dorien
are going 12 rounds with a bayou bruiser.
Stop him!
I just can't get it.
Give me a shot.
Hurry, pa!
Whoa!
Burn him!
[gunshot]
That big sucker's dead, pa.
He gave me a bath.
No more Pirate.
Let me take a look at this monster.
It's a big alligator.
Whew.
We didn't get much.
He's pulling me back.
Don't let him beat you up.
I'm trying.
Yeah, there you go, pa.
I'm trying.
He's trying to roll the other way.
Whew.
Look, pa. Check that out.
See that? See where I hit him?
-You peeled him back. -See how old that is?
Years and years ago.
To see that scar
after so many years of trying to get that alligator,
it was really, really satisfying
and made me feel really good to my grandson,
'cause I told him that scar was there.
There's the Pirate.
Look at that. Look at the teeth on the Pirate.
He's a giant.
Pirate was everything my grandpa said he was.
He was a 12-foot alligator,
had the scar right by his eye.
It was definitely a great feeling catching Pirate.
We killed the last Pirate in the swamp.
He might have a brother out there,
-[Daniel laughs] -you know?
Back in Bayou Long...
♪ It's a good day on the bayou
Troy and Pickle have been catching huge gators
on their new set of lines.
-Oh, we catching good, huh? -Oh, yeah.
Pulling out some big boys outta here.
But the hunters know they can't
take their foot off the gas just yet.
We're pulling some massive alligators outta here.
But because of the competition this year,
every alligator counts at this point, you know.
So you have to run your first line to your last line
like you have a 12-footer on every one.
What we got, Pee-wee?
-Where he's at? -See something?
Oh, yeah, I see the line.
We got something on it.
-Oh, yeah, I see the line. -See it? It's tight.
-Look tight, huh? -Yeah.
Oh, yeah, she's pulling.
Looks like it. Huh!
-He's a big one. -It's a big one?
All right, all right.
Whoo! [thud]
Show him who's the boss.
Ooh-hoo-hoo! You saw that thing?
He's under that log though right there.
Whoo, watch him.
Oo-oo-ooh!
Aah!
Oh, no, not under the boat!
Show him who's the boss, Pee-wee!
Bring him up, Pee-wee.
Get him, get him, get him, get him.
[gunshot]
Whoo! Good job, Pee-wee.
Good job.
Way to stand your ground. Show him who's the boss.
-Lord have mercy. -Okay.
Man.
-Perfect. -Good enough, huh?
Perfect, Pee-wee.
Okay, talk to me.
-You ready? -On three.
-One... -One, two, three. Unh!
One, two, three.
With one final behemoth in the boat,
Troy and Pickle have high hopes that they'll be back on top,
and Pickle knows what saved the day.
Fishing alligators, it's not just about
hanging a line in a tree and hoping for the best.
There's so many things to learn in the bayou
and being able to adapt like this
and having Mr. Troy to teach me these things,
you know, it keeps our season rolling,
it keeps us going.
It's gonna help our average big time.
I'm starting to taste those extra 300 tags, huh?
Back on Flat Lake...
Just feel like he's watching us, laughing right now.
Determined to catch the gator that escaped them twice,
Anna and Ashley are staking out the area.
This gator is smart enough
to know not to get on to the lines,
and so we're gonna have to just snipe him.
That's a big gator.
Do you think that's him?
Yeah, he could've got that far by now.
All right, Anna. Let us coast over there.
Was I over him or under him?
-Over him. -Damn.
Ashley has the gun grabber in her crosshairs.
Boom!
Get us up there, get us up there.
Where's the treble hook?
All right, all right, right here, right here.
Keep your eye on him. Keep your eyes on him.
-See where it went down? -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right to the right right there, Ashley.
Yeah, I got him, I got him.
Oh, not the tail. Damn!
Grab that gun.
He's huge.
Soon as you get a shot.
[gunshot]
-Night, night! -Sleep tight!
He is heavy.
We gotta make sure we can get him in the boat.
I'm gonna put the line up under his body.
We're gonna use it just like we do the T-strap.
Watch the hook.
-Okay, ready? -Yeah.
-Oh. -All right.
Oh, man.
The other one's in his mouth.
Look at this, Anna.
Are you serious?
That's definitely our beast.
Look at where he frayed it and then he popped it.
Now we know for sure he's dead.
Whew!
Oh, my God, we got him!
-Whoo! -Yes!
Capturing this 12-foot gun-snatching behemoth
is exactly what they needed to climb in the rankings.
Be the last gun he steals.
Last.
Now that we finally got this gator pulled into the boat,
it is such a huge accomplishment.
It's like we were in a battle with each other,
and finally I won.
-Click-click. -Click-click!
You hear that?
He gave us hell.
Yeah, he did, but the Double-A team,
we don't lose.
In Bayou Long,
after a big day, Troy and Pickle head back,
ready to cut loose,
and Troy tries to pass down
some valuable driving techniques.
Whoa, watch it!
Got a rooster tail.
Aah!
Whoo!
Slow her down.
That's what you call precision.
Precision driving.
And they run into a couple of fellow competitors.
Look your stepbrother over there.
Look your stepbrother.
What ya say, pa?
What's going on, son?
I'm trying to teach Pee-wee how to drive the boat.
Yeah, that's what you're doing. [laughs]
Oh, come on now.
I'm trying to teach her how to be a precision boat driver.
And she don't listen.
Well...
Aah!
[Leron and Porkchop laugh]
Aah! I got my phone! I got my phone!
You got what? You got what?
My bucket!
He's likely to kill us.
Why you wanna wet me?
I didn't wet you.
I'm trying to teach her.
I'm trying to teach her how to drive the boat.
Sometimes she acts like she's 25.
Sometimes she acts like she's 12.
I'm going to get the truck.
[laughs]
Whoo, man.
Back in Vacherie...
[both laugh]
Leron and Porkchop
celebrate a successful day
with one of Leron's specialties.
That's a little taste of that old Vacherie dust.
My favorite thing to cook is okra gumbo.
And we know how we do this, Porkchop.
We set it and forget it, bro.
What you say there, Chop?
You know what time it is, huh, buddy?
-[laughs] -Ooh, man, looks good.
It have okra, it have smoked turkey necks,
which I do myself, shrimp, crab,
smoked sausage in it.
And voilá.
That old Vacherie dust got these things pretty good, man.
-Good with the tea, man. -Good with the tea, cuz.
[laughs]
Oh, yeah, man.
Things are looking up, and I have a lot of faith.
God blessed us with a successful day,
and it just makes you feel great about it.
With less than a week left in the competition,
the hunters are neck and neck.
The Landrys jump into a two-way tie for first
with Ronnie and Ashley,
while Leron, Porkchop, and Bruce
fall into a three-way tie with Willie and the Edgars,
but remain just two short inches from the top spot.
Oh, yeah. Hell, yeah.
You know that there, buddy.
It ain't over until the fat lady sings, man.
Yeah.
And it ain't over.
Like I said, stay focused.
I know I would be talkin' about me, cuz.
but slow down a little bit. we gotta stay focused, buddy.
We knockin' on the door.