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Joe---what kind of varmint is making my life miserable?
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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1373551" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>Around here, a young male gator will stay in a pond as long as there is plenty to eat. Once they get big enough to fight the big bull alligators for a female or 3, they will leave the pond and go back to the river--around 3-4 years if my own experience with them is any indication. The females are all down in the river-- At least that's what the wildlife folks have told me about the ones that show up in my pond--they're young males looking for a place to hang out and get big. They can eat a LOT of fish and ducks in 3-4 years tho.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, I pretty much just 'hide out'--in my pickup truck. Mine have been pretty habitual--making the same run every evening right after dark. Just enough light reflected off the clouds from the set sun for me to see the V in the water as one swims along with just his head out. You get one shot, that's it. Here, if I haven't seen one pass by 2 hrs after sunset, might as well pack up and go to the house. So far, they haven't plugged up any waterways or culverts, but they have built a new lodge out on the end of a peninsula--drug one of my duck decoys over and added it to their lodge too. I killed 3 in Sept I think but know some are still here--I keep seeing the remains of the water lily rhizomes they eat floating around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1373551, member: 18945"] Around here, a young male gator will stay in a pond as long as there is plenty to eat. Once they get big enough to fight the big bull alligators for a female or 3, they will leave the pond and go back to the river--around 3-4 years if my own experience with them is any indication. The females are all down in the river-- At least that's what the wildlife folks have told me about the ones that show up in my pond--they're young males looking for a place to hang out and get big. They can eat a LOT of fish and ducks in 3-4 years tho. Yeah, I pretty much just 'hide out'--in my pickup truck. Mine have been pretty habitual--making the same run every evening right after dark. Just enough light reflected off the clouds from the set sun for me to see the V in the water as one swims along with just his head out. You get one shot, that's it. Here, if I haven't seen one pass by 2 hrs after sunset, might as well pack up and go to the house. So far, they haven't plugged up any waterways or culverts, but they have built a new lodge out on the end of a peninsula--drug one of my duck decoys over and added it to their lodge too. I killed 3 in Sept I think but know some are still here--I keep seeing the remains of the water lily rhizomes they eat floating around. [/QUOTE]
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