Well after being teased by advertisements I'm catching an episode tonight. It's all about Louisiana alligator hunting, and I gotta say I'd sure love to do this sometime. Alligators are one of the true success stories when it comes to managing wild populations.
The technique employed by the hunters on this show is more like fishing than hunting, using setlines with bait, checking on it the next day. One group makes homemade 12/0 (I think, I forget what size they quoted) treble hooks with lead weighted around the shank, and they actually SNAG big gators and hand-line them to the boat.
