Jaw-dropping videos and photos of the capture are making waves online.
Weighing a whopping 920 pounds and measuring 13.3 feet long, the gatorzilla was the second largest specimen ever harvested in the state — with the biggest weighing 1,000 pounds.
Grotz and his team found the behemoth reptile in a lake near an Orlando population hub and knew they had to remove it to keep people safe.“Ultimately, if a beast of that size gets a hold of you or, God forbid, a child, the odds are tough,” said Grotz, who got to work removing the gargantuan gator right away.“Honestly, my first concern was safety because we were in a smaller boat,” Grotz said. “And then you add a gator whose head is this big. All he has to do is turn, and we’re in trouble.
At long last, they lasso the beast and lash it to the side of the vessel so its giant jaws leer at the camera. “I’ve lived here my whole life, and I think about gators, but I’ve never really experienced this,” said Kevin Brotz, an alligator charter captain who bagged the beast.The battle reportedly took Grotz and his team a whopping four hours to catch the behemoth — a tug of war that left them dead tired.
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