The biggest gator caught this season was harvested by tag holder Austin & Owen Rouse and Scott Edwards of Selma. It was 11’6” and 388 pounds Cahaba River gator in the 4th night of the 2022 West Central Alabama Zone hunt.
The biggest gator caught this season was harvested by tag holder Austin & Owen Rouse and Scott Edwards of Selma. It was 11’6” and 388 pounds Cahaba River gator in the 4th night of the 2022 West Central Alabama Zone hunt.
It was slim pickings for the Alabama Alligator Hunt this year, if you consider 388 pounds slim.
The Alligator Hunt for the West Central Zone that includes Dallas County closed out last weekend. Outdoor expert James “Big Daddy” Lawler said the season met expectations when it came to the number of gators harvested, but the size and weight of the gators “was a disappointment.”
“We had 32 of 50 tags filled, and that’s about average for our zone,” Lawler said. The most harvested was 40 in 2016. But as for weight, “22 of the tags filled were less than 8-foot gators,” he said. “We had two 11 footers brought in, two 10 footers brought in, three 9 footers and three 8 footers. The rest of them were under 8 feet.”
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