This was found at Bar X, which is between Angleton and West Columbia, near a house. How would you like to meet this fella in the dark? Never let it be said that we don't grown them big in Texas.
Game wardens forced to shoot alligator, guess he wouldn't cooperate. Published April 16, 2005.
WEST COLUMBIA - Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night.
Her neighbors in Bar X Ranch had been telling them they had seen a giant alligator in the bayou that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations.
"I didn't believe it," Charles Rogers said. Friday they realized the stories were, if anything, understated. Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast. Joe Goff, a game warden with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, walks past a 13-foot, 1-inch alligator that he shot and killed in the back yard of the home at the Bar X Ranch on FM 521 near West Columbia.
I searched the web to see if this was true and couldn't locate anything to verify it. I did see on the Texas Department of Wildlife site a document on alligators that noted that since the reopening of leagal alligator hunts the largest alligator harvested in Texas was 14ft 4in in WEST COLUMBIA. So maybe this was his brother or sister.
So with that note, have a great weekend! Stay out of the bayous and ditches with all this rain we've been having!
I'll be camping so visit some of these blogs I enjoy on a daily basis while I'm gone, but come back!
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