Very nice timeline of your gator adventure Fool. I do not have any tags for gator this year, but next weekend I will be going down to the ranch that I hunt on to watch one of my friends try to bag a very large 12 footer. I think there were only 4 tags for hardee county this year. The game warden is a friend of my friends property, he already tried to get the gator, but he got skunked too. I will ask my friend's wife if she will get me some pics of this beast. He has already killed and consumed one of their 450lb steers. They have had so much rain that the gator seems to have disappeared, go figure. If they get the gator I will make sure to get some pics....I have seen him twice when hog hunting last year.....I am guessing that he is well over 600lbs, and easy 12 foot maybe more. On a side note we have a very nice 5x5 buck on the camera already this season.....not bad for a south fla deer, I can already taste the backstrap.