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Originally Posted by gckid
You playing with those gators was cool but you just signed there death warrant. Now the next person crabbing there will have them coming up and eating there crab line. This is a NUISANCE gator now and will have to be removed before someone ends up hurt. If a game warden would have seen you you would gotten a expensive reminder to not mess with alligators. I'm a nuisance hunter and 3/4 of gators I removed all started as "oh look a gator. lets feed him"
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Alligators, especially young ones like these, have been grabbing bait lines at this spot for years. It's not like it's in a neighborhood subdivision where someone will report it as a nuisance gator. Nor is it in a state park where people go swimming, canoeing, water skiing, etc. It's well known that there's alligators there and I'm not the first one to do this, nor will I be the last. And look, I "get it" about feeding alligators. I know it's a bad idea and yes, some people actually do feed them there. That's not what we were doing. We were crabbing, and the gators were getting at our bait anyway, so we just had fun with it. And as far as game wardens and fines, yes, I could have been fined for handling a gator. But what was I supposed to do? Leave it tangled like it was? I only pulled it up there to free it from the bait lines, get some good video up close, and let it go unharmed. I can't see anything wrong with that.