A tropical storm barrels toward louisiana,
bringing deadly hunting conditions with it.
[thunder] aow!
My first instinct is get the hell outta here.
I gotta get destin to shelter.
[thunder]
brave swampers venture beyond the surge wall.
The risk versus the reward is gonna be good
if we load the boat up with big gators.
- Whoa! - Oh!
While others battle the storm alone.
I have to come home with alligators in the boat.
I'm not coming home back to joey skunked.
Whoa! Come on.
Aah!
♪ when I was just a little boy ♪
♪ standing to my daddy's knee ♪
♪ my papa said, son, don't let the man get you ♪
♪ and do what he done to me ♪
♪ 'cause he'll get you ♪
♪ born on the bayou ♪
as alligator season reaches its peak,
a massive tropical storm approaches,
threatening to derail hunters all across the bayou.
Down in franklin,
patriarch daniel edgar monitors the weather,
wondering if there is still time to hunt
before the full force of the storm hits.
Radio announcer: Tropical storm warning issued
for southern louisiana starting at 8 a.M.
Wind gusts expected at 65 miles per hour
with four to five inches of rainfall.
Tropical storm warning.
Joey already has a preview of what's to come.
The tide's rising and my boards are coming off.
I'm just trying to nail them.
I don't wanna lose them.
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to go today.
We gotta fill those tags.
We can't leave the lines hanging.
Today we have a tropical storm making landfall.
We gonna have a three- to five-foot surge,
and I just don't feel right leaving this place
with the water coming up as fast as it is.
If you can run the few lines we got out today,
that would help a lot.
- Yeah, no problem. - Imma stay back.
If this tide continues to rise,
I got forklifts, four-wheelers.
The storm surge comes up that high, huh?
Yeah, oh, yeah, and quick.
Well, it's got to be done.
Joey, his main priority is taking care of home,
and I understand that.
So I really wanna help joey
get these alligators and hurry back home
and help joey with the rest of his family
and everything he's got going on at st. Mary's.
Luckily for zak, the storm begins to slow down for now.
But knowing the rain will be back
and hunting solo for the first time,
he has to run his lines as fast as possible.
If there was no storm, I could definitely do it.
But with a storm like this, it's definitely gonna be challenging.
Oh, yeah.
Line looks tight.
All right.
Whoa! That's what I like to see.
Come on, come on. Let's go, big guy.
Not bad.
Mm-hmm.
Unh!
I see you death-rolling. Unh!
All right.
Come on, get up here.
Get up here, buddy.
Come on, come on.
[gunshot]
whew.
That's one in the boat, baby.
[grunting]
got him.
Ahh. That's how you don't get skunked.
As zak moves on to his next line...
We gotta hurry. Weather's coming.
Back in st. Mary's marsh...
Daniel and dorien have also launched.
Daniel's ready to show his grandson
how a seasoned swamper hunts in a storm.
The tide's already up. Look how she's ripping.
She's gonna come up maybe three more feet.
This tidal surge is about to push in on us,
so we're gonna have to make some adjustments.
I'm gonna show dorien a couple of tricks that we can do
where our bait can stay
and just come up with that surge real fast.
There's no way to set the height of the bait
because the storm surge is gonna come in.
So what we're gonna do, we're gonna set this snare, pa.
What's a snare, pa?
A snare is a very, very old means of catching game.
I'm curious to see if it works.
You don't have to worry about if it's gonna work, pa.
When?
I can trap human beings with a snare.
That bait right there is gonna float.
If the tide comes up,
it's just gonna come up with the tide.
If an alligator comes right here,
he's gonna come right here.
He's gonna come and catch that bait.
Once he catches that bait and tries to eat it,
this is gonna trip the clothespin,
and then this thing is gonna pinch down on his head,
and this dog won't release it.
He can leave and fight and he's caught.
So you've got the alligator just by the nose.
- Gotcha. - You see?
Really gonna work good,pa.
So my grandpa pulled out
some swamp old-timer trick with this snare.
And that's definitely why I'm here,
to learn things that I don't know
and learn tricks that I never thought would work.
Let's go to work.
I'm 100% sure if that alligator grabs that bait,
it's gonna catch him over his nose.
There won't be any hook in his belly.
We'll have an alligator on that line.
Yes, sir.
42 miles southwest,
the tropical storm is closing in on pecan island
as gator queen liz choate and her stepson destin
begin their day.
But with just so many days left in gator season,
they've decided to take a chance
and hunt as long as they can do it safely.
Just gonna build up in the gulf.
Further it goes inland,
the more we're gonna get those squalls.
Water's still coming up, too.
Yeah, and the wind's kicking a lot harder today.
The amount of rain
that they're predicting for our area is insane,
so it's got me worried.
Like I told destin, it is what it is.
We gotta go out there safely as possible, take our time.
Safety is a big priority.
I looked at the radar before we left.
It's gonna get harder as the day goes on.
My dad was all leery about bringing me when I was little,
especially when the weather came in.
He had a little cubby hole on the bow of the boat.
Whenever lightning and rain would start,
he and my mama
would stick me in this little hole underneath the bow.
That way, you know, I'd be safe in there covered with blankets.
But as I got older,
it didn't matter if the weather came in or not.
If I was in the boat with my daddy,
lightning, thunder, it didn't matter.
We were in it for the long haul.
Do we have something?
Hold on.
- Is the line tight? - No. Not really.
It's hung up right there.
Let me see that. He's gonna be hung up.
Oh, he's on there.
Yeah, I feel him.
He's not happy.
Gol.
Oh, yeah, get ready.
Finally got a nice one right here.
Come on, boy. Goldarn it!
Hold on! You got to get behind me, dd.
Oh!
Hold on, buddy.
Right now, buddy!
[laughs] good job, boy.
Just wanna cut him out.
This eight-foot gator starts the day off on a positive note,
but with the weather only getting worse,
liz will have to rely on her years of swamp knowledge
to keep them safe.
I know it's gonna be horrible,
but in my mind, I have confidence.
We gonna go out there and still try to get it done,
no matter what the elements come towards us.
That squall's building up.
Purple all around us.
Fixing to have one come right on our behind.
158 miles to the east, on the outskirts of violet,
ronnie adams and his deckhand ashley "dead eye" jones
are heading toward louisiana's 100 year surge wall.
Their goal? Catching giant saltwater gators
on the other side.
I put out roughly 35, 40 lines,
but we gotta get out there.
They loaded with big monster alligators.
Brackish water.
On the outskirts of that wall you got lake borgne,
and lake borgne ties into lake pontchartrain
and the gulf of mexico.
I haven't seen alligators outside for years.
I mean, you might see one here and there,
but this year there's so many alligators
out there in the saltwater, I mean, it's just unreal.
They call it the 100 year wall to protect st. Bernard parish
and all these parishes from hurricanes, tropical storms.
Any type of storm come through,
it's supposed to stop the storm surge
from flooding these parishes
for at least 100 years.
Built by the army corps of engineers,
the 100 year storm wall cost over $14.5 billion
and took years to build.
It stretches 133 miles,
protecting the bayou and the city of new orleans.
With the storm approaching,
ashley's concerned about the lock system closing
while they hunt on the other side.
So what happens if they close the locks
while we're out there hunting?
We sleep. We'll be plenty off.
We'll spend the night till they open the locks.
Yeah, but out there in that open water, it's gonna be choppy.
That's why we can't [bleep] around.
We gotta get these lines, run 'em,
get out there, knock 'em out,
and get back in before they shut the locks.
There's a huge storm moving in,
and that means the water's gonna start rising,
which means they're gonna eventually close these locks.
You know, the risk versus the reward is gonna be good
if we load the boat up with big gators.
You said if.
No, we gonna catch.
Ain't no doubt about it, we gonna catch.
Boy, that's-- it is intimidating, huh?
- Yeah, it's incredible. - It's huge.
I know right now
I gotta get outside, run these lines.
You don't never know when they're gonna shut that wall.
And once they close, they don't open them until the storm pass.
We got something.
How it feel, babe?
Feels good.
- Whoa! - Oh, my god!
Boy, this is a monster, che.
Whoa!
That's a hammer there. Whoo-hoo!
Golly.
Come on, big boy, get this bullet in your head.
Whoo-hoo! Shoot him.
Come on, shoot him!
That a girl! Good job, my baby!
This nine-foot, 350-pound gator
is exactly what ronnie was hoping for
when they ventured beyond the 100 year wall.
But he knows they have to keep the pace up.
So we are time-based right now.
I'm trying to hurry up and trying to make it back in
before they shut the locks.
Because if not, you're stuck like chuck, buck.
We'll get in and out.
Try to beat this and go hunker down for the storm.
Back to the west,
just outside st. Mary's marsh,
hunting solo for the first time,
zak is struggling,
and the thought of letting the edgars down
is weighing heavy on his mind.
Just gonna keep on checking this canal
until I find the alligators.
Joey says they're here, and we have tags to fill.
I have to come home with alligators in the boat.
I'm not coming home back to joey skunked.
There's just no way that's gonna happen.
Joey's always been such a great guy to me,
and I'm gonna do my part by running these lines
and catching some big alligators for him.
A big one's gotta be somewhere over here.
There's one on here.
There we go.
Oh, yeah.
Oh!
Uh-huh.
[laughs] a little bit sneaky, huh?
Do not wrap me up right now.
Do not get tangled back up in there!
There you go. There you are.
Give me a branch.
Hold on to this thing for me.
There we go.
Dude.
Uh-huh.
Not pulling me down anymore.
Whew!
Whoo!
And joey did this by himself his whole life?
I can see why he calls me now.
A six-foot feisty gator is not what zak was hoping for
and his concerns over failing his captain grow by the minute.
There's nothing but lizards back here,
so I'm really gonna have to hunt my hardest.
I hope I can bring something big home for joey.
The big ones gotta be somewhere over here.
Gotta hurry up.
Seven miles away in franklin,
daniel and dorien have finished setting snare traps.
And while they wait for them to work,
they hunt in open water
where gators often seek shelter to avoid the storm surge.
That might be him right there maybe.
You're kind of close to him. Try it right there.
You're close. No, you threw too far.
I see the bubbles going out right there.
Got him!
Hold him, pa, hold him!
Don't let him beat you up.
Hold him, pa. Oh, watch, the boat's gonna hit!
Hold him, I'm gonna get the rifle, pa.
Hold him.
He's dragging us all over.
You got him by the tail.
- Yeah, I know. - No, it's just about off!
Let me get another hook on him.
It's just about off.
There you go. There you go.
Now I got him, now I got him.
Oh, ho ho!
[gunshot]
good shot!
Thank goodness.
[laughs] good job, pa.
Nice, nice, nice, nice.
This 350-pound gator is a great bonus capture...
Let me swing him out. I'm gonna pick him up.
Yeah. Pull that. Pull that.
...But daniel's anxious to swing back to his snare traps
to see if they worked.
Yeah, start pulling him. Unh!
This snare is a really good way
to catch an alligator in extreme weather conditions.
Boy, that was a good throw, huh, pa?
I told you I knew where he was.
I thought you had missed him. I thought you had missed him.
You put it on him, pa. [laughs]
back in pecan island,
the storm has arrived in full force,
slamming liz and destin.
But with lines to run,
liz knows they have to forge on.
[thunder] aow!
Very hard to drive the boat in the elements.
Rain burning my eyes,
couldn't see in front of me half the time.
It was just a solid white blur of rain coming sideways.
I feel like I have needles
just prickling in my eyes constantly.
Fun, huh, buddy?
Oh, it's awesome.
Having the time of my life right now.
[both laugh]
one point you're sitting there, it's a light drizzle.
And you look 30 feet in front of you,
and you can't see nothing 'cause it's pouring down.
A tropical storm's nothing to mess around with.
[thunder]
now let me just ease in until we find the string
because I don't wanna cut it.
Oh, we got something.
All up in there.
All in the front.
Some little toes to get him out of there.
Whoo! Oh, that's a big one.
All right.
Hold up, big boy.
Look at the power in that water.
That's a quick way to turn around the boat.
Yeah, but it's not good.
Aah!
He's a little mad.
A little mad is an understatement.
You're gonna have to hold him away from the boat.
See if you can get me a shot there, buddy.
If I can get a shot on him...
Yeah.
- Ah! - Look how pretty
when we get him in the boat.
Yaah!
Big nine.
He was a little mad.
Finally, finally, finally.
[thunder]
that's some lightning.
Gonna have to take shelter shortly.
I don't like to be in the boat with lightning.
With the storm beating on them,
liz and destin need to be extremely careful.
Pump the boat out, destin.
Back east, ronnie and ashley
are running lines outside the 100 year surge wall,
but the storm is slowly moving in their direction.
I mean, it's really getting dark out here.
Yeah, it's getting darker. Storm's moving in.
Water's choppy, choppy.
It's gonna get worse than this.
And then it's gonna pick up all day long.
That's what I was worried about.
- Watch for that stump there. - I see it, babe.
That water's so high. Look.
That's how high the water is?
Yeah, it's underwater.
That thing should be out the water
about another three feet.
They're gonna be closing those locks any minute.
We take a chance every time you go out alligator hunting,
especially when you got a storm bearing down on you
and you're fishing outside the lock system,
that 100 year wall.
You always throw up there is the risk worth the reward?
Oh, it's wrapped around in the back, che.
Oh, this one's all busted up, che.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Bring it up, che.
Something's on here.
Let me tie it off to the back of the boat.
It might be a lizard, it might be a dinosaur, che.
Watch your hands.
Get the gun, get the gun, get the gun.
I got it, I got it, I got it.
Whoo!
Come on, big boy.
- Watch him, ashley! - Oh, my god.
Watch him. He's trying to get in the boat, girl.
I thought he was gonna grab your leg, girly.
I did, too.
Motherhumper.
Dude, he's vicious, dude.
- Don't go under the boat. - Please don't.
Whoo! Freak! This is a big boy!
Whoo-hoo!
This dude is everywhere.
- Aah! - Hold on to him.
That a girl. That a girl, baby!
He was going to war today.
Oh, yeah, boy.
Another nine-foot beast
has ronnie feeling like they made the right decision
to hunt outside the wall,
but he knows ashley doesn't share his enthusiasm.
I'm trying to keep her calm,
telling her we're gonna beat the lock system.
We're gonna make it.
I'm just trying to stay calm and collect
and do what we gotta do
to get these lines run and get in.
126 miles away outside st. Mary's marsh,
zak has run his lines.
It seems the storm system
has pushed the larger gators into open water,
adding to an already frustrating day
for the solo hunter.
There's a lot of alligators here,
but so far, I'm just seeing little freaking lizards, man.
I have to come home with something big in the boat.
I'm not gonna leave joey unimpressed.
So I have a little bit of time before the storm comes,
and I'm gonna try to get one on rod and reel.
Oh, yeah. Here.
Right there.
Look at the bubbles on that one.
Come on. Come on.
Aah!
Stay right there.
Come on, that's it.
Right there, right there.
Here goes nothing. Come on, come on.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!
Come on, come on, come on.
Aah!
Come on up, buddy.
There he is!
[grunting with effort]
no! Aah!
Don't go under there.
Come on up here.
See if I can get a shot on this thing.
Come on, stay up. Stay up, stay up, stay up.
Damn. That wasn't enough, that wasn't enough.
Come on.
All right, all right, all right.
All right, all right.
[gunshot]
oh, god. Aah.
Keep coming.
Keep coming. Keep coming.
Come on.
Landing this 10-plus-foot behemoth
has zak feeling exhausted,
but he's filled with a sense of pride
at not giving up today.
That was the most exhausting thing I've ever done in my life.
Nothing... Nothing could've prepared me for this.
I'm proud to get back to st. Mary
and show joey what I caught.
I know he was nervous,
and I could see the look on his face
as I left this morning.
But getting this alligator in the boat
is probably the most satisfying feeling
I have ever felt in my life.
I can tell you what.
I'm not coming home with an empty boat.
I can't wait to show pop this. [laughs]
lots of story time today.
To the far east, south of new orleans,
ronnie knows there's inherent danger
in hunting the saltwater
outside the 100 year surge wall,
but he believes the gators are worth the risk.
There's all kinds of alert systems.
They can text it to you.
There's actually a horn that goes off,
but you gotta be there locally.
So if you outside the locks and way out,
you're not getting cell phone service
so you won't get a text.
And if you're not around the gate when it's gonna close,
you're not hearing it.
But, hey, you gotta take the chances.
You gotta make sure the risk is worth the reward, baby.
Is it down?
It's down, che-che.
Looks like it goes to the back.
Holy--ashley, look at that gator, ashley.
Oh, my god.
- Oh, my god. - Look at that gator.
Dude, that is a hammer, girly.
Oh, my god.
Let me get that rope, che.
Whoo-hoo.
Oh, he's big, girl.
Yeah, che, get that gun ready.
I got it. Safety's off. I'm ready.
He don't wanna come. [gator hisses]
- whoa! - Ooh!
Ooh-hoo. Arg-arg-arg-arg.
Sucker's growling at us, che.
Come on, baby.
- Oh, that's a big one. - Hold on.
That hook's right there at the top of his mouth.
Yeah, he's barely hooked,
so as soon as we can get a shot on him.
Oh, my god. I've never seen one so mad.
Come on, big boy. Golly.
Oh, my god.
That hook's getting ready to come out, ashley.
Get that gun ready.
Oh!
We can't lose this gator.
This sucker's strong, yeah, che.
Get him, get him, get him, ashley!
Shoot, shoot, shoot!
That a girl. Good job, my baby!
Hold on, I'm gonna get up there and help you.
There we go, che-che. We got him now, babe.
Ashley, look at the hook.
Barely in there, che.
We almost lost this gator.
One, two, three.
That a girl.
I've really never seen a gator do that before.
And I've never been scared of a gator,
but that gator right there sends chills down your spine.
- That'll be a wrap, huh. - God, he's still growling.
That's what nightmares are made of.
This monster 450-pound beast has ronnie flying high,
but ashley's concerns grow by the minute.
I'm sure that they're about ready to close those locks now,
I mean, if not already shutting them.
Because the weather's moving in,
the wind is pushing that water in,
and they're not gonna risk the entire parish flooding
over two dumb fishermen
that decided to go out there just to run these lines.
I just don't know that the risk is worth it.
Look at this, ronnie, how choppy it's already getting.
You see why nobody else is out here, don't you?
Yeah, 'cause the storm's a-coming, papa.
Back in franklin,
daniel and dorien have returned to the first line they baited
using daniel's secret snare method.
There's one on that line.
I told you that snare's gonna work.
When we go back to our first snare line,
I seen that it was tripped,
and my grandpa's wisdom and his patience, it paid off.
I don't know what we got, but let me load the guns, pa.
There's an alligator in there somewhere.
Whoa-oh.
Can you get to him, pa?
Oh, I see him. He's right here.
Yeah, you got one in the grass in there, pa.
Where's your hook at?
Is he dead?
- Got him. - We got one.
- Whoa! - Whoa!
Oh, my god.
Whoa!
This one's aggressive.
Watch your foot.
Better do something.
[gunshot] whoa.
Yeah. Ain't never seen that before.
That was a big surprise.
Tell me what you think about that snare.
It worked. I didn't have a lot of faith in it at first,
but you showed me something I didn't know.
Real simple.
He caught him, and I gotta give him respect
that his old-time trick worked.
It's another piece of knowledge
that I can put into my craft and factor in.
So I'm definitely grateful
my grandpa came up with this idea,
and we didn't lose these alligators.
There's always a trick, pa.
There's always a trick.
Catching one on a snare is very rewarding.
It reminds me of when my dad
was teaching me how to do things.
Brings back memories for me
with my dad and my grandfather.
And to share a moment like that with my grandson,
it's a very special time in my life.
Those old tricks still work.
Mm-hmm.
46 miles southwest,
liz and destin are still running their lines.
But the most treacherous part of the storm
is on top of them.
Oh, it's right over there. It's pouring.
Oh, you can't even see that far.
Ooh.
[thunder] oh, wow, look up there.
I saw that lightning strike over there.
I know. It's right on top of us right now.
Dang.
When we're riding in the middle of nowhere in an aluminum skiff
and lightning starts popping all around you,
my first instinct is get the hell outta here.
I gotta get destin to shelter and myself to shelter
because I don't want lightning to hit us and kill us both.
[thunder] whoa!
Humans are 500 times more likely
to be struck by lightning in a boat than on land.
Wanna get out of it a little while?
Seek some shelter?
Yeah.
[thunder]
liz knows of a utility platform one mile down the canal,
but it's a race against the storm
to reach shelter safely.
[thunder]
I don't like that.
Oh, my lord.
Yeah.
We had to take shelter,
get out the lightning, you know,
for the protection of me and destin.
But as a hunter, you know,
you have to deal with nature whatever nature calls.
Rain, snow or shine, you gotta come out here
and do what you have to do and run those lines.
Hell fishing in these conditions.
[thunder]
back in the saltwaters
outside the 100 year surge wall,
ronnie and ashley have finally arrived
at their last line of the day.
But with surging tides, they'll need to work fast.
That one up there looks down.
Good, good.
See it?
Mm-mm. Not yet.
If you can't find it, I'm gonna--
oh, I see it, straight out right here.
Oh, yeah, it's tight.
Still nothing's pulling back.
But I see that line's wrapped on the other side,
but hold on.
- Whoa! - Whoa!
Oh, my god, boy, that's a monster!
Get the hammer, jack!
Whoo-hoo!
Hold on to him.
Did I tell you about monsters?
This dude's 12 foot.
Boat puller, baby. Boat puller!
Gee, my golly!
- Got it? You okay? - Yeah, I got it.
You just get the gun ready.
This motherhumper's about to pull me out the boat.
Come on, he's rolling now.
Golly!
Calm it down, boy!
- I got my safety off. - Pull him up.
Come on, next one around.
Right there. [rifle clicks]
oh!
Next one around, you gotta make it count.
Here we go, here we go, here we go.
I don't wanna lose this gator.
Come on, come on. Get a kill on him.
Right here, right here.
What a gator, che.
Whoa.
- Oh, yeah. - Let's give me that hook, che.
Unbelievable!
Did I not tell you they got monsters out here?
- One, two, three. - One, two, three.
All right.
One, two, three.
- There we go. - I don't think I budged.
One, two, three. There we go.
This incredible 12 1/2-foot monster
is the biggest of the day.
But with the weather getting worse,
they have to hustle
to beat the closing of the lock system.
We're really in a race against time here.
We have to get out.
The rain is starting to get heavier.
The wind's starting to pick up.
And, you know, I know
that they're gonna have those locks shut.
We got to hurry.
Oh, yeah, it is.
Got the storm just a-buckling down on us, papa.
Here we are, che.
That's what we're looking for right there.
Told you I'd get you out of here.
Whoo! Yes!
We took serious risk,
but, boy, we loaded the boat up with some serious gators.
Got back through the lock system,
and we did it.
And we loaded the boat, and I'm stoked.
Just in the nick of time.
Just in the nick.
Back in pecan island,
with the dangerous lightning slowing down,
liz and destin head back out
to run their last line of the day.
We're almost done, buddy. One line left.
I've always learned from my father.
He used to tell me, we got a thunderstorm tonight.
He said tomorrow we gonna do good with our alligator lines.
Something about the rumble,
the rumble of the thunder and the lightning,
it makes them move.
And I'll be damned, every time he nailed it.
You see the string, destin?
I'm looking. I do not see it.
- Straight down in the water. - Straight down.
Do we have something?
Whoa!
- Hold on, hold on. - Whoa!
- He's feisty. - Oh, yeah, dd.
- Watch your hands. - Shoot him.
Oh, he's very aggressive.
Give me a shot, baby.
Come on, dd. Give me that shot.
[gunshot]
- ahh! - Good shot.
It's a good'un. That's a good'un.
That's a good'un, good'un.
That's number what?
Seven?
Let me cut him right there.
Good gator.
Let's pull him to the back, though.
Let's pull him to the back, bud.
We're fine, miss liz.
What's the matter? He burn your hands? [laughs]
catching this final eight-footer
gives liz a sense of accomplishment.
But more than anything,
she's happy they made it through the storm safely.
Definitely had somebody watching over us today,
especially with the weather.
My old man, my pop, was watching over us.
I can guarantee you that.
That's a hell of a surge.
You almost can't see where the boat ramp's at.
Pull up to the truck.
The whole doggone parking lot is covered.
- It's to the road. - That's crazy.
I mean, wow.
Back at st. Mary's seafood,
with the storm system now gone,
zak returns after his long day
feeling confident his haul will impress joey
and prove he's a worthy solo hunter.
- Me papa! - Boy.
How was your day, son?
I got some.
I got a nice big one, too, on the rod and reel.
- Really? - God.
You was all right? The lake was rough, huh?
I wouldn't say all right, but I got it done.
I was a little bit worried at first, you know.
They weren't showing up like they normally do,
but I got a big one on rod and reel.
I worked for it.
Wow, that's a good one.
How you loaded that thing?
With everything in me.
But I missed you today.
I'm telling you, I missed you today.
I don't wanna do that by myself if I don't have to, man.
You got it done.
To see his relief
and to come back with a nice alligator
that I caught on rod and reel, too,
it really made me feel good.
That's a good alligator.
That's a big alligator right there.
I'm proud of him. He came back in one piece,
and that's the most important thing.
He's trying to show that he's ready, you know.
He's trying to show that he's a man, and that's what I need.
I need a man on the boat.
That's what I'm talking about.
Well, let's get these things measured up so we can go home.
Gotcha. What a day.