After 20 years of trying, a group of four fishermen finally captured a behemoth 13-foot-long, 680-pound alligator.
On Sept. 28, Robert Hennis, his son Joel, Rev. John Benandini Jr., and Tommy Strawn pulled the massive reptile from Turtle Bayou, near Anahuac in Chambers County, Texas, according to Bluebonnet News.
“We have been trying to get this gator for 20 years. Every year, a week before the [hunting]season, we will see him, and then we won’t see him again until after the season is over. This time he bit the wrong hook,” Joel told the outlet.
They used bayou mullet to catch the somehow elusive creature — which was behind Robert’s home.
It took four 800-pound paracords to bring the gator up to the surface of the water.
The creature, who was trying to avoid his fate, broke two lines as he struggled to free itself.
Most of the meat harvested from the gator, which was brought to Porter’s Processing, a wild game processing farm in Anahuac, is being donated to local church parishioners.
Joel and his father took around 10 pounds of meat from the alligator’s jowls and are having a full-body mount made of its carcass.
