there were 2 gators, about six or seven feet long, in copeland creek back in the 90's but poachers decided they didn't need to be there. I have also seen a couple of small ones on the north end above the 155 bridge.

I'm sure glad I know the difference now... since I ran a trap line up there for years and caught many nutria/beaver.

How do they taste?

lots of gators in Fork several up in White Oak. Have seen them many times They like out of town boats ...

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Good point....because the existence of bigfoot and alligators is just almost identical. And for those that have been fishing on Pines and never seen a gator....keep looking and you will one day.

It's amazing how many friends I have that have hunted all of their lives and have never seen a Mountain Lion.....maybe those don't exist either? Oh wait....I've seen 3 of them.....or because they haven't....maybe that means I am lying or making it up.

In the 90s my wife worked at lake Cherokee. They took them out of Cherokee often. She was I contact with TP&W and the lake patrol daily. An 8 footer was taken out of the Johnsons creek area on the pines but that was long ago.

I know for a fact that there ARE alligators in Lake o' the Pines. Me and my wife where fishing up and brushy Creek and seen about a four footer a week before 2021 KYKX Bass tournament last year. And here are the pictures to prove it.

There were 2 last year in August in the back of Holiday Harbor on Pines. About 6' and a 4'. Several of us who live there saw them.

Yes, I have seen several gators above and below 155 bridge. More above though. There aren't any "giants," but plentiful of 5-8 footers

Grew up in north Louisiana and lived there the first 31 years of my life and never saw but two in the wild but now the lakes there are full of them from what I understand, they've migrated north from the coastal areas over the decades. They will eventually spread to every area that weather will allow them to live. When baby gators hatch out, they are allowed to live around the adult gators but as they mature into adolescent gators the adult gators start pushing them out of their territory, so they have to find a new place to live. They'll eventually repopulate every area they lived where they were hunted to extinction. I don't know how far north or west that will be, but time will tell.

So can we legally shoot them in Texas? Not sure what the purpose of protecting them would be...

The video of one charging at a blue kayak on caddo freaks me out. I could see them being attracted to the commotion when bringing a bass into a kayak or a kid playing on the shoreline.

Alligator Charging Kayak

I’ve seen this video. Crazy. Don’t you know the that guy freaked out when he got turned over? Sure that’s Caddo though?