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Originally Posted by dhdallas
Go right ahead. The alligators will be more than happy to see you standing at the water's edge. Gators can move at 35mph over short distances. They are not normally aggressive but if a food source is right there and it's an easy grab, they may go for it. There was a woman at another community earlier this year walking her dog by a pond's edge when an alligator came up on the shore after the dog. The dog ran away & in front of the woman so the alligator grabbed the woman by the leg, dragged her into the pond and ate her. I enjoy seeing the alligators but I tend to give them a wide berth. Kind of like bees, you leave them alone, they leave you alone (unless you do something stupid).
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We've had problems with alligators going for the fish they caught.
A gater started following fishermen around a pond and aggressively chasing their catch up the bank.
That gator had to be removed when it started following non-fishermen around as they walked a nearby MMP.
So please, if you fish, avoid doing it within sightings of gators.