Video summary
The video documents a fishing expedition at a river near Floral City, Florida, which quickly turns into an encounter with numerous alligators rather than a successful catch of traditional game fish. Although the narrator initially spots a gar and manages to hook it by letting the bait wiggle around the fish's snout, the primary focus shifts almost immediately to the dangerous environment filled with alligators. The group identifies several alligators in the water, including a baby gator sitting nearby and multiple larger ones swimming around, making the area feel unsafe for standard fishing activities.
Despite the presence of these reptiles, the narrator attempts to catch the gar again using chicken liver as bait, carefully maneuvering near an alligator while trying to secure the fish. After successfully hooking the gar, he quickly removes it from the water and throws it away from the group to prevent feeding the alligators or risking injury. The experience highlights the difficulty of fishing in such waters, as the narrator notes that casting is limited by low water levels that prevent boat access and the constant threat of falling into the river where small alligators would be eager to attack.
Ultimately, the trip concludes with the decision to abandon the kayaking plan and return to the camper due to the overwhelming number of alligators in the immediate vicinity. The narrator expresses relief at having caught one fish but emphasizes that the situation is not worth the risk of falling into the water and being bitten by a swarm of hungry gators. While they managed to photograph the gar before releasing it back into the river, the adventure serves as a cautionary tale about the unpredictable dangers of river fishing in Florida, where the presence of alligators can turn a simple outing into a hazardous situation that requires immediate retreat.
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>> Okay, guys.
I don't think I'll be doing much
fishing.
>> [snorts]
>> I could probably walk
at least 3/4 of the way out there. I can
see bottom.
I do, however, see a fish over here.
I'm going to put my line down in front
of him and see if I can get him.
Okay, he latched onto it.
I don't know if you can see him.
I think he's a gar.
Uh, and he let go.
Yep, he was a gar.
Um
but
yeah, usually they just try to take the
bait. You got to kind of
let them wiggle around and let them get
wrapped around their snoot.
That's how you catch them.
Um
I mean, I don't even think it's worth it
because
I there's no way I can cast out that
far.
Lucky was down here making her video
yesterday and she was sitting right
right here.
And uh
she said she saw four or five gators
just hanging out here. Me and Bruno
walked down here and we was over there
at that dock.
There was a baby gator just sitting
there in the water.
I wish I had have got that fish.
Yeah, I can I can exactly see it's in
all this stuff here. Oh, there's in fact
there's a baby gator right here.
Let me get y'all up here and see if you
guys can see him.
Let me Let me grab my glasses.
And there's another one right out here.
I don't know if you can see him there.
And then
there's another one swimming right out
there.
I don't know if you guys can see him or
not.
Can you see him swimming?
But anyway,
yeah, it's so
I don't think
fishing's going to be
I'm going to wind
that stuff off of there.
Jeez.
Oh.
Hang on, I got a clip here.
You know what? I'll go ahead clip on.
Jeez.
Wow.
But
Yeah, I mean, there's no way we could
get our boat in here.
Cuz
it's just too damn low.
Oh,
Great.
Man, there's another one right here.
So, that's
That's three of them down here.
>> [snorts]
>> Uh-uh, got him. I got him hooked.
And
I caught me a gator.
Where you at?
>> [snorts]
>> There he is.
All right. Well,
Yeah, so
uh
I got that gator off my line.
I'm sitting here looking at one, two,
three,
four gators right now.
Granted, they're small, but
>> [snorts]
>> uh
So, I don't even want to
take the chance of getting in there
on a kayak
in case I would fall in.
Them guys will be on you pretty quick.
Man.
>> [snorts]
>> Oh, well.
Yeah, that's a bust.
So, yeah, I'm just definitely not. Cuz
if I would happen to fall in, which it
happens, you know.
Uh
Uh there's one down here. I know you
guys can't see it. If I'm on another
camera, I'd be able to zoom in on him,
but
I mean, uh
one little slip, you go in, and you got
this little,
you know, a bunch of these little gators
chomping at you.
No fun.
So, I really don't even want to do that.
I mean, I know there's gators in this
river, but
this is crazy.
All right.
Well,
yeah, I see looks like it'd be a turtle
way out there
where I first casted.
So,
if the fish ain't going to be in this
and if they are, well, you know, that
little gar, he's back.
Let me get rigged up again. And there's
a gator right here. He just came up. Let
me get rigged up again to see if I can
at least get this gar.
Okay, guys.
I'm right in front of this gar.
I have a piece of chicken liver, and
he's going for it.
He's smelling it. He's got it.
Like I said, they don't uh
>> [snorts]
>> It's hard to get them hooked in their
mouths.
I got to be careful cuz there's a gator
right over here. I don't want him
coming.
Okay, so
it's the same gar. I'm going to keep
messing around till he comes back and
then I'll kick you back on. I don't know
if you guys saw that or not, but yeah,
he'll take it so long then he'll just
let go of it. It won't be hooked. I got
kind of a small hook on there
and no sinker.
>> [snorts]
>> So
I try to get this gar
and give me something to do for a few
minutes.
And I'll be back with you.
Okay, guys. We got this gar down here.
See if we got the hook.
Got him.
We got us a gar.
All right. Yeah, we got us a gar.
All right.
I thought he came off.
There he is.
You guys see him?
>> [clears throat]
>> All right.
I got to get the hook out of his mouth.
I'm throwing him over there away from
these gators.
I ain't
trying to feed the gators and I ain't
trying to catch a damn gator.
Latched onto that one, but
the hook did finally come out of his
mouth.
So, that's good.
All right. Let me try to get
First, I'm going to take a picture of
this thing, send it to Monkey.
Then, uh
I'll be back with you in a minute.
All this this whole river right in here
is full of gators. There's big ones out
in there
I've been seeing swim around.
But,
all right, let me get him off of here,
and we'll get him thrown in
back into the water away from the
gators, cuz you throw that in there,
that gator is going to try to get him.
So,
at least we caught one fish, and then I
guess I'm going to go back up to the
camper.
And I don't know what I'm going to do
now.
I had planned on getting in the kayak,
but I don't want to get in that kayak
with
like I said, one little slip up, and
yeah, I got a bunch of little gators
biting me. I don't want that.
All right, back in you go.
Okay.
Well, let's head back up to the camper.
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