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MA woman bags 1,025-pound alligator in SC lake
FLORENCE, SC (WPDE) - A Massachusetts woman caught a 13-foot, 1,025 pound alligator in South Carolina using her fishing pole.
Mary Ellen Mara-Christian successfully got a permit through the state's lottery system for the one month long season.
Wednesday morning, she headed to Lake Moultrie with her husband and few friends in search of a gator. What she found was a monster.
"I said this is what we were looking for and my hands are still shaking," said Mara-Christian. "He was right there at the edge of the bank swimming on the edges."
She hooked him with her fishing pole and battled for two hours to get him near the boat. In South Carolina you have to secure the gator and get it to the boat before you're allowed to shoot it.
"Your heart's just pumping and pumping he was enormous you could see this part him coming out of the water. His big belly then you saw his head his head had to come out for me to shoot him," Mara-Christian said.
They shot him eight times, but he was still moving. "We had to stab him a couple of times to break his spinal cord," said Mara-Christian.
Once dead, the group took the 900-pound gator to a deer processing plant in Florence County.
The facility had already processed an 11-foot, 400-pound gator caught in Lake Marion earlier in the week. Both catches are getting lots of attention.
Karen Stilley stopped to see the huge gator. "I just picked him up form school and we were going by and he saw it and he couldn't believe the size of it," said Stilley.
Ellen Mara-Christian is still amazed by her big catch. "He was unbelievable, unbelievable experience."
Meat processor Steve Drummond said the gator had so much fat that only about 40 pounds was usable meat. He will stuff the animal for Mara-Christian to display.
MA woman bags 1,025-pound alligator in SC lake - WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina |
FLORENCE, SC (WPDE) - A Massachusetts woman caught a 13-foot, 1,025 pound alligator in South Carolina using her fishing pole.
Mary Ellen Mara-Christian successfully got a permit through the state's lottery system for the one month long season.
Wednesday morning, she headed to Lake Moultrie with her husband and few friends in search of a gator. What she found was a monster.
"I said this is what we were looking for and my hands are still shaking," said Mara-Christian. "He was right there at the edge of the bank swimming on the edges."
She hooked him with her fishing pole and battled for two hours to get him near the boat. In South Carolina you have to secure the gator and get it to the boat before you're allowed to shoot it.
"Your heart's just pumping and pumping he was enormous you could see this part him coming out of the water. His big belly then you saw his head his head had to come out for me to shoot him," Mara-Christian said.
They shot him eight times, but he was still moving. "We had to stab him a couple of times to break his spinal cord," said Mara-Christian.
Once dead, the group took the 900-pound gator to a deer processing plant in Florence County.
The facility had already processed an 11-foot, 400-pound gator caught in Lake Marion earlier in the week. Both catches are getting lots of attention.
Karen Stilley stopped to see the huge gator. "I just picked him up form school and we were going by and he saw it and he couldn't believe the size of it," said Stilley.
Ellen Mara-Christian is still amazed by her big catch. "He was unbelievable, unbelievable experience."
Meat processor Steve Drummond said the gator had so much fat that only about 40 pounds was usable meat. He will stuff the animal for Mara-Christian to display.
MA woman bags 1,025-pound alligator in SC lake - WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina |
I'll remember her name and to never speak with her ever. that's why cameras were invented!! dumb.. dumb.