Swamp People Question

[Marshrat]

Originally Posted by Feesherman

I used to do it back when everyone skinned their own gators. You talk about work and my job was to cut the guts open and get the hooks back. Man, stank ain't even near a good enough word to describe dat.

Hooks are too cheap to have to cut them out. We always bought new hooks every year so we never worried about cutting the hooks out. I have gone back and picked up the hooks after the carcasses completely rotted and the smell was gone. We used to have a pile of them on the bank on our property and that was really rank.


Warren