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Old 03-02-2025, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by frayedends View Post
Just don’t grab your fish at the edge of the pond. Pull it up onto land to unhook. Common sense and gators aren’t gonna be a problem.
A lot of people make the mistake of THROWING a fish through the air when they return them to water. That bursts some of their internal organs and eventually kills them. To return them properly you have unhook them and place them gently back into the water. Personally, I think that any alligator over 3 ft should be captured and sold to restaurants.