The gigantic animal measured 14 feet and 3 inches long, beating the previous record for the longest alligator caught by permitted hunters by more than 2 inches.
The record-breaking animal measured 14 feet and 3 inches long and weighed in at 802.5 pounds , according to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks . The previous record for the"longest male alligator taken by a permitted hunter in Mississippi" belonged to a 14-foot, 0.75-inch-long animal weighing 766.5 pounds that hunters captured in 2017 near the western city of Natchez.
"It was a calm night," Donald Woods, who participated in the hunt, told Clarion Ledger, a Jackson, Mississippi news outlet."We saw a lot of 8-footers, 10-footers, but that's not what we were after."The hunters spotted the humongous alligator and got a hook on it around 9 p.m. local time, Woods said, but it took the team seven hours to subdue and kill the beast."We hooked him eight or nine times and he kept breaking off," Woods said.
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