Just his legs were bigger than my body': Hunter reels in latest record-breaking gator weighing a whopping 760lb
It is 13ft 4in long, weighs 760lb and, until the weekend, this giant record-breaking gator had been lurking in a Louisiana river.
This year's alligator cull has already broken records, but Jim White's giant catch in West Baton Rouge is the heaviest and longest hauled in so far this year.
When Mr White and his hunting partner caught the gator, their first thought was 'we're going to need a bigger boat'.
'I knew that I wasn't going to fit him in a 16ft boat,' Mr White said. Instead, he had to use a tractor to carry the alligator to a processing plant.
When Mr White realized what he had caught in Solitude Point on Saturday, the seasoned hunter said: 'I really got fired up.'
'His back legs was bigger than the size of my body,' he told American Now.
Louisiana only measures the length of gators so there is no way of telling if Mr White's catch is the heaviest ever found in the state.
Several record-breaking gators have been caught this year, including one measuring 13ft and weighing 727lb which was caught in the Mississippi by UPS worker Dustin Bockman earlier this month.
The animal is now being processed for meat, according to NBC 33, and then Mr White plans to have it mounted - though at that size it is hard to know how he would display his hunting trophy.
Alligator season lasts for a month in Louisiana, where hunters are allowed to track and kill about 28,000 wild animals.
The state is home to an estimated 2 million wild alligators, and a further 300,000 are raised on farms for meat and leather products.
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