Thanks again folks. I forgot to add one thing to my list of hunting, morels.

I think I can handle that. Anything to increased my legendary status.

How does it give LA a bad rep?

You guys are ruining my hopes and dreams telling me that the show isn't all it appears to be.

We just dont want you to come down here and spend a bunch of money and not enjoy it. Now if you come down here I guarantee you will have fun but gator hunting may not be as exciting as the cameras make it out to be

I got ya. I'm mostly looking forward to the fishing and the food.

well then you wont be dissapointed

Come on down. The fishing will AMAZE you.

Most gator hunters sell the gator whole. They get the same price for them.
Some who have their own state approved skinning shed will skin them.
There are only a few hide buyers, and all the skinning sheds buy for those few buyers.
The skinning shed owners get their profit from the meat and sell the hides to the buyers for what they bought them from you.
So, if you want the meat, it will cost you a buttloada money.

Your forgetting the worst part, how bout after you shoot da gator and when you put him in da boat you dont get the head over the side fast enough and you get the honor of seeing/smelling his lunch on the bottom of dat boat for the rest of the day! Dont see that on TV!

Not to mention the heat and it is what most would call work setting/baiting lines. But the beer helps!

Wait til u smell the chicken funk

3 day old rotten, ya know when the fat starts drippin and makes a sheen, ive seen a helpers breakfast due to it

Then you will be very happy. My father moved to Boston to join another law practice when I was young, he would fly back all of the time and all he would ever talk about was how much he missed the Louisiana culture and food. Find yourself a local restaurant and avoid the big chains and you will be really happy.

I moved to Houston 8 years or so ago and I spend every minute I can in Louisiana at our camp. I have traveled all over the country and I have never seen a place like Louisiana. If you watched swamp people last week you heard Liz talk about how Cajuns will do anything to help people and that is the culture. While the gator hunting might be a little overstated the people, passion and food are dead on.

There is no place in the world that I would rather be than south Louisiana.

Fixed it for you

GM, one other thing to note is that Gator season is Sept. 1st to 30th. Pretty much everything you heard here so far is true. We do eat good down and most men cook all the major meals around here. My wife cooks, but not for Holidays, thats the mans job.

Season opens on the wed after labor day

From my research it looked as if there are two zones, east and west, and the season is a little different in each zone.

No matter how long you leave the head over the side, it will vomit after you put it in the boat.
And the blood will clabber up under the deck. Nasty.

Yep decks come up after every season for a good cleaning

Mushrooms
 

We don't have morels but just about everything else. At least 5 species of chantrelles, lion's mane, hen of the woods, and at least 3 species of oyster mushrooms. Not many people to compete with. Your allowed a 5 gallon bucketful on the WMA's around here.

This one is protected by one of Louisiana's finest.

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