I guess I'm a wimp, It don't look like I'll be wading the points at Grapevine anymore. If my grandkids were hanging around the lake, You could bet I'd be gator hunting. To heck with Troy, We need Elizabeth.

Something else to consider the lake just came up 5-6 feet in a few days if he was in a den that would have flushed him out. I saw and photographed a snake in the same marina several weeks ago and it's pretty early for them as well.

You mean Liz-Beth!

where is sandjohnny on this?

Not to mention the pic of the special needs child is not very damn funny either..

There may be gators at Eagle Mountain but that one there only exist in photoshop.

NOBODY can gaurantee which Texas lakes are void of gators. I'm glad I decided to RENT lakeshore property(came close to buying it). I saw one in San Miguel Bayou, Toledo Bend.

I never get the gator hysteria. There are gators in every lake I fish. I've seen several dozen, maybe a hundred gators. We used to routinely see four to eight in one particular small East Texas lake.

A few years ago a friend and I were throwing at a log in the back of Lake Nacogdoches. Then when we got about 15 feet from it the log moved...

A gator is not going to swim up and climb into your bass boat. I think I remember reading that there hasn't been a confirmed alligator death in Texas in over a century...and maybe one or two in Louisiana. Every U.S. alligator death in the last 50 years has been in Florida, where they are everywhere.

Unless you are letting your 2 year old swim at night in the reeds at Lake Okeechobee I think you and your family will be all right.

The problem in FL is that people feed them. I grew up fishing the Atchafalaya swamp and have been around too many gators to count. Not once have I seen one aggressive to people. The only time I felt worried was setting crab lines in the marsh with beef melt for bait. But the gators wanted the bait not me.

WOW !

I saw a gator at the zoo once.

It's almost time for Spring alligator season.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/season/animal_listing/#alligator

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/planning/alligator/

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_w7000_1011.pdf

Wow

Burn a Trixie Shad, Skinny Dipper or Horny Toad by it several times, then do it real slow. He'll jump all over it.

I recommend at least 65 lb braid but have caught 'em on 15 lb co-polymer before.

Sandjohnny does not get or fish close enough to a shoreline to ever see a gator on EM and besides if he did he would he has his Ole Uglies to protect him