big_buck_hunter Posted September 8, 2007 Report Posted September 8, 2007 Hey Does anyone have the pics of the 12' gator in a hog trap? It was caught on Toledo bend. I do not know where it was at but I would guess it real, because there is a shot of a game warden at the back of the trap. I have it at work and I forgot to send them home. If you have it, please post it.
bronco1 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 i have them, I will post them tomorrow.
crazy_cajun02 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 IT SURE WOULD EAT BETTER THAN A HOG, PROLLY CUS I DON'T GET TO EAT IT VERY OFTEN. WHERE'S THE CROCODILE HUNTER WHEN YOU NEED HIM...........
crazy_cajun02 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 hER'S THE QUESTION HOW BIG WAS THE HOG HE ATE WHEN HE ENTERED THE TRAP............YOU KNOW HE HAD TO HAVE FOLLOWED ONE IN THERE.
bleacher_bum Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 Awesome pics. This is too cool. But now that I see it, makes me wonder why it doesn't happen more often around this part of the country.
tvc184 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 I would think that most gators don't wander that far away from the water to get into most hog traps. I would hate to be walking through the woods in the dark heading toward my deer stand and come upon that.
tvc184 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 I'll have to add that to the memory banks. Don't put hog traps next to the water. Fortunately, most people put them a bit farther inland.
tvc184 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 Did the Gator eat the Hog?Swallowed him like a chicken McNugget. ;DIf you are serious, no. Gators don't eat like that by consuming whole animals like snakes. Gators like to rip chunks of flesh of of their meal, preferably after it has been rotting for a couple of days and builds up quit a stench.
tvc184 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 A lot of people bait hog traps with soured corn or something similar. That probably drew the gator to the trap.
KFDM COOP Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 So there was no Hog in the trap?
bronco1 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 I don't think that it was possible for the Gator to have been going after a hog in that kind of trap. It looks like that was the kind with a slide down trap door. Not a hinged door to allow multiple animals to enter the trap.
tvc184 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 I think a hog would be too shrewd to be trapped by a gator anyway. They are harder than deer to hunt and are more cunning and wary.
bronco1 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 I think a hog would be too shrewd to be trapped by a gator anyway. They are harder than deer to hunt and are more cunning and wary. Yeah, Ninja like.
tvc184 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 That's why they are overrunning Texas. It is hard to spot the darn things and they move through the woods like a herd of elephants, destroying everything in their path.
crazy_cajun02 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 GEES PEOPLE YOU GOTTA LEARN WHEN I'M JOKING..........gators typically kill there prey then drag it under a log and let it sit for a few days before consuming it. And yes your right usually by ripping it to shreads. As far as the gator being there they got pushed inland by the strong currents in the main rivers. When it flooded they starting seeking shallow holes and eddies. To escape the flood waters. Typically the same occurence will concentrate the hogs on the high ground which is mr. gators favorite meal. I've really noticed them on the edges of the bay flats where they typically stay away from because it is too shallow and salty. and in the backwater ponds of the marsh they are thick. They seem to like the deeper channels when it isn't a ripping current and the sand banks all covered up.
tvc184 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Posted September 14, 2007 GEES PEOPLE YOU GOTTA LEARN WHEN I'M JOKING..........Yeah but people that are not hunters or outdoorsmen don't have an infinite knowledge of animals and their feeding habits.
big_buck_hunter Posted September 15, 2007 Author Report Posted September 15, 2007 Does anybody have any idea "Where " on Toledo Bend the trap was? Texas side or La. side???? Kinda looks like a TP&W uniform. Curious mostly. ???
crazy_cajun02 Posted September 17, 2007 Report Posted September 17, 2007 considering that a game warden is in the picture i would guess TX side. LA side the pictures would never have been taken (no evidence) and the gator would have been eaten.
bronco1 Posted September 17, 2007 Report Posted September 17, 2007 considering that a game warden is in the picture i would guess TX side. LA side the pictures would never have been taken (no evidence) and the gator would have been eaten. NO doubt, in a gumbo and some new alligator skin diapers for the baby. ;D
crazy_cajun02 Posted September 17, 2007 Report Posted September 17, 2007 NO doubt, in a gumbo and some new alligator skin diapers for the baby. ;D
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