Best Of

Gator season kicked off on Wednesday and by Thursday night I was tagged out for my first unit.  The first night we had some serious cob webs to shake off and it seemed like one thing after another went wrong.  Thunder storms, broken reel while hooked up, trolling motor popping out of the bracket and into the water, on and on.   Alicia and I got it done though with a solid 9 foot female only an hour and a half into the hunt.  With all the crap going wrong, capped by a tire blowout at night, we forgot to take time to get pictures of the two of us.  That's a regret, but we'll have to make up for it on another gator soon.



Night two I had my best buddy since high school drive over from Jacksonville.  He's really into bass fishing, so it worked out perfect that he'd fish while I looked for a gator I wanted to go after.  Seems like gators are always less weary of fisherman, and we had several opportunities on 9 footers before I finally spotted a block head around 6:45.  Made a stalk and the first cast hit its mark.  30 minutes later we had a solid 11'2 bull gator in the boat.  Stark contrast from the prior night where everything went RIGHT on this hunt.  2 tags down, 4 to go.

Done before the sun came up.

Mason's first deer