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Kentucky angler nabs a 200-pound prehistoric alligator snapping turtle before going on to reel in monster gar - which stands to break his OWN record
Daily Mail UK ^ | May 13, 2024 | MITCHELL GOODBAR

Posted on 05/13/2024 8:20:24 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 05/13/2024 8:20:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: dfwgator; TexasGator; EEGator; alligator; FamiliarFace; Fireone; V_TWIN

Different type of ‘gator’......................


2 posted on 05/13/2024 8:21:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Quite a day.


3 posted on 05/13/2024 8:24:12 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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I saw that on Fox last week.....had one or two encounters with alligator snapping turtles......nasty reptile with a really bad attitude.


4 posted on 05/13/2024 8:26:39 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Stay in the fresh waters, they said,

There are no monsters in the fresh water to grab your ankles, they said.

5 posted on 05/13/2024 8:31:00 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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It is believed that alligator snapping turtles can live 80 to 120 years.


6 posted on 05/13/2024 8:36:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Snapping turtles are mean. Compared to a snapping turtle, an alligator is relatively docile!.................


7 posted on 05/13/2024 8:37:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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He’s gonna need a bigger boat 🛥 🚤 🛶.


8 posted on 05/13/2024 8:38:38 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Yep and they can hide in the mud...................


9 posted on 05/13/2024 8:41:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Definitely! Chomp, chomp!


10 posted on 05/13/2024 8:42:23 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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I’ve seen Alligator Gars here in Choctawhatchee Bay as big as that one.............


11 posted on 05/13/2024 8:43:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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I hope that snapping turtle he is holding is dead...


12 posted on 05/13/2024 8:45:11 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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If it was in Kentucky then it must have been a confederate turtle and must be erased!


13 posted on 05/13/2024 8:45:26 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP
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No wonder the Gators can’t beat Kentucky in football anymore.


14 posted on 05/13/2024 8:46:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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No Turtle Soup for You!


15 posted on 05/13/2024 8:50:33 AM PDT by Bob434
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Guess everything really is bigger in Texas…


16 posted on 05/13/2024 8:54:14 AM PDT by rhinohunter (Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.)
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That turtle was probably alive during the Civil War.................


17 posted on 05/13/2024 8:54:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Quite true. In the Florida countryside, I have picked up both smallish alligators and large snapping turtles that had stopped on the road as they pondered their next move. Pound for pound, snapping turtles are nastier and usually more dangerous.


18 posted on 05/13/2024 8:54:49 AM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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Snapping Turtles are the ‘Honey Badgers’ of the reptile world...................


19 posted on 05/13/2024 8:57:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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“No wonder the Gators can’t beat Kentucky in football anymore.”

KY one win 1987 - 2020.


20 posted on 05/13/2024 8:57:51 AM PDT by TexasGator
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