920-Pound ‘Dinosaur’ Alligator Caught In Florida Lake

A team of Florida-based alligator hunters caught a “dinosaur” gator weighing 920 pounds and measuring 13.3-feet long. It was the second largest in the state, with the biggest weighing 1,000 pounds.

Kevin Brotz, who was part of the group that captured the gator, told Orlando TV station WESH-2 he “had a fear like I never felt before.”

Brotz, who runs Florida Gator Hunting, has been a guide for almost 20 years. He captured the behemoth in a lake near Orlando with two friends, Darren Field and Carson Gore. It took them four hours to get the gator. They ultimately caught it by lassoing the beast while lashing it to the side of the vessel.

The catch comes after four hunters killed the biggest recorded alligator in the state of Mississippi.

Brotz and his team have received alligator hunting tags, which are given to help balance out-of-control animal populations. Florida has seen a substantial increase in alligator attacks in the past ten years, which experts think is due to overdevelopment.

Brotz, a licensed captain and a hunting guide, said he doesn’t like killing animals but sees it as a part of the greater good.

“I don’t ever feel good about killing an animal. But with that being said, I respect the harvest,” he said.

Tags are allocated to balance the population out of control. We’ve all seen what happened at Disney. We’ve all seen what happened elsewhere. These are killing machines. They can, not that they want to, but it does happen. So we need to balance the population as well, so that’s how we look at it.”

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Brotz has also declined to specify which lake he found the alligator in. He does not want many people rushing to get hunting tags for the lake where he found the record specimen.