THE DAILY WIRE · MISSISSIPPI, USA · 2026-09-11
Mississippi Hunters Log Multi-Hour Shift, Gator Clocks Out at 700 Pounds
Hunters in Mississippi landed an alligator weighing nearly 700 pounds after what is being described as an hours-long struggle, which this reporter would classify less as a hunt and more as a labor dispute.
According to reports, the capture required a sustained, multi-hour effort, suggesting the animal in question had strong opinions about being relocated and the physical means to express them.
Weight alone puts this gator solidly in local-legend territory. Multiply hours of struggle by hundreds of pounds of reptile and you get less a fishing story and more an athletic event with no clear winner until the very end.
Skeeter, a catfish who has shared river frontage with the animal for years, agreed to speak with this column about life downstream from a legend.
His account of the local pecking order was blunt.
Whatever else is true, Webster notes the record stands until the next hunter with a longer rope and a worse idea comes along.
“I been dodging that fella for three years, everybody in this river owes him rent. Alligators move slow till they don't, so my advice is simple: never be the slowest thing in the water.” — Skeeter, local catfish
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