727 pound alligator caught in Mississippi, Beth Trammell was the first to set a record after catching a 13-foot-5.5-inch, 723.5-pound alligator in the early morning, but a few hours later Dustin Bockman, a UPS driver from Vicksburg, set a new weight record with a 13-foot-4.5-inch, 727-pound alligator caught in the Mississippi River near the Big Black River in Claiborne County.
"He broke all the lines we could put in him. Finally [we] put a snare on him and got him up high enough and put a shot on him. All in all probably took us four and a half hours to catch him from the first time we saw him," Bockman said Monday.
"He broke all the lines we could put in him. Finally [we] put a snare on him and got him up high enough and put a shot on him. All in all probably took us four and a half hours to catch him from the first time we saw him," Bockman said Monday.
