Weiss Lake Alabama Gator

Originally Posted by Jack Schmitt

This is a 28 foot gator as reported by KTBS of Birmingham. I have fished
many a day in this lake but, I have never seen anything like this.

Maybe you never saw it there because this is a 13 foot gator that was shot in Texas in 2005. Story he
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/wcgator.asp

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:00:28 +0100, Henry Hefner
wrote:


Jack Schmitt;202577 Wrote:
This is a 28 foot gator as reported by KTBS of Birmingham. I have fished

many a day in this lake but, I have never seen anything like this.

Maybe you never saw it there because this is a 13 foot gator that was
shot in Texas in 2005. Story he
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/wcgator.asp

The Florida Museum of Natual History says this about gator size:

"Adults males typically reach 4 to 4.5 metres (approximately 13 to
14.7 feet), although there are several unconfirmed reports of larger 5
m (approx 16.4 feet) and even 6 m adults (19.8 feet is the largest
"reported", though there are doubts over its veracity) having been
found or killed in the 19th and 20th centuries. Such sizes seem
unlikely for this species. Females reach lengths of just under 3 m
(approx 9.8 feet)."

So any pic you see of a "monster" gator over 20 feet is pure fiction.