
Thread: I'm sure this has happened to most everyone, but...
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05-06-2024, 08:13 AM #1
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I'm sure this has happened to most everyone, but...
it's a first for me.
Fishing Fairhope pier, usual crappie jig set-up, get bit by a 17" flounder. The current is pulling my net under the pier (can't see it) so I ask a nearby fisherman for help.
"Sure, no problem... that's a gator." (me, it's a nice flounder but it's not a "gator")
he says, no... I'm talking about the alligator.
um... what?
Sure enough, I look over the rail and a little 2ft alligator is trying to take my flounder.
It's apparently been spotted hanging out in the marina, and I guess he got tired of waiting for the restaurant to open. Luckily the net chased him off but I suspect he'll try again.
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05-06-2024, 08:46 AM #2
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As if the sharks weren't bad enough, now we got gators after our fish. Good story.
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05-06-2024, 11:06 AM #3
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I’m going to Fairhope pier tonight to try your crappie jig method. Hope you don’t mind me stealing your idea. Although I have used it on Spanish at GSSP.
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05-06-2024, 02:43 PM #4
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The alligators at Meaher Park relish a chartreuse styrofoam float. Just Sayin...
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05-06-2024, 10:35 PM #5
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05-06-2024, 11:41 PM #6
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Didn’t catch anything, didn’t see a whole lot of catching. I also had to leave earlier than I planned. Nice evening outdoors however.
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05-07-2024, 10:55 AM #7
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05-07-2024, 03:46 PM #8
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Never in salt water, but all the time at a place called Lake Bill Waller in Columbia MS. Gators are a nuisance there. I was laying back jigging crappie near some Lilly pads one fine evening from my little ole 14ft flat bottom with a 6hp evinrude, the dang gator that surfaced next to me was over half the length of my darn boat. I don't fish from a boat there anymore, just the docks, but gators still mess with bobbers.
Nurse -- Father -- Falconer
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05-07-2024, 11:06 PM #9
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How fast can you run. I've seen this before on Hilton Head Island golf course ponds.
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