That's a lot of sauce piquante...

[Jolly]

Big gator...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10476983/Mississippi-hunter-catches-largest-alligator-state-trapper-Florida.html

[Ozarks Tom]

That's a huge one alright. If memory serves, Troy on Swamp People caught one nearly that size in Louisiana a few years ago when they had a contest for biggest gator.

They keep changing people on that show, except Troy. His sons are good hunters too, but nobody beats Troy and his "Choot im".

[wildhorseluvr]

Pretty big for a gator in FL. 

I used to have an internet friend who lived/worked in Burundi near the lake (Tanganyika, IIRC) where Gustave the giant crocodile lived. He was over 20 ft long and weighed over a ton. Man eater too…rumored to have killed over 300 people but an expert figured it was more in the neighborhood of “only” 60 people. 

[farmrbrown]

That's a big'un for sure and looked healthy except for his teeth. At 80 years old it was about time for him to go anyway.
It's kinda surprising to hear the side of the record holders though because they aren't the biggest ones out there. But I guess that's how you GET to big - by NOT getting caught.

animalsake.com/largest-alligator-ever-recorded

On an average, a male adult American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) measures somewhere around 13-14 ft. in length. The Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis), which happens to be the only other species of alligator on the planet, is even smaller, with its length seldom exceeding 7 ft. In rare cases, specimen measuring 15 or 16 ft. have also been recorded, but one measuring 19.2 ft. is unbelievable in itself. Unbelievable, but true!

It's hard not to notice a real big one when it glides by your 18 ft. bass boat and looks to be the same size....