Like a dinosaur! Terrified Florida gator hunter describes catching huge 900-pound 13.3 feet alligator – the second largest ‘Gatorzilla’ ever killed in the state

A Florida alligator hunter spooked himself when he caught the second-largest of its kind found in the Sunshine State, measuring over 13 feet and 920 pounds which he compares to a dinosaur.

Kevin Brotz, who runs an organization called Florida Gator Hunting and has been in the business for nearly 20 years, was on the water with two others Friday near Orlando.

The alligator – whose population the state of Florida is trying to control – appeared seemingly out of nowhere and its size caused visible shock to the men on board.

“When we saw this alligator it was way bigger than anything we had ever caught before,” he said.

“It was a giant dinosaur,” Brotz added. “It’s not every day you have a giant dinosaur in your boat. »

Brotz and fellow boaters Darren Field and Carson Gore took four hours to battle the alligator, which ultimately weighed in at 920 pounds and 13 and three-and-three-quarter inches.

“I lay down at the front of the boat and said, ‘Fine, I have to lie down until we get back’, because I thought I was going to die. This thing was huge,” Gore said.

“I had a fear like I had never felt before,” Brotz added.

Brotz noted that he spent a lot of time trying to track alligators and even made it his business, but that was something new.

“I’ve lived here all my life and I think of alligators, but I’ve never really experienced this,” he said.

He was also worried about the safety of Field and Gore, who are close friends.

“Honestly, my first concern was safety because we were in a smaller boat,” Brotz said.

“And then you add an alligator whose head is also big. All he has to do is turn around and we’re in trouble. So immediately, all we were repeating, all I was repeating was, “Guys, we have to be smart. We have to play it safe. And I couldn’t have been with better people.

Kevin Brotz, who runs an organization called Florida Gator Hunting and has been in the business for nearly 20 years, was on the water with two others Friday near Orlando.

The alligator – whose population the state of Florida is trying to control – appeared seemingly out of nowhere and its size caused visible shock to the men on board.

“It was a giant dinosaur,” Brotz said. “It’s not every day you have a giant dinosaur in your boat”

This alligator was only the second in Florida history after one that weighed more than 1,000 pounds, according to the state wildlife commission.

The largest known alligator is a 1,011-pound giant found in Alabama in 2014, according to the New York Post.

Brotz doesn’t want people to know the exact spot where they caught the alligator, lest more people visit and take care of the alligators themselves.

“At the end of the day, if a beast of this size gets hold of you or, God forbid, a child, the odds are high,” he said. WESH.

He also expressed ambivalence about having to kill the alligator, which was intended to keep control of the local people.

Brotz and fellow boaters Darren Field and Carson Gore took four hours to wrestle the alligator, which ultimately weighed in at 920 pounds and 13 inches and three and three quarters.

This alligator was only the second in Florida history after one that weighed more than 1,000 pounds, according to the National Wildlife Commission.

Brotz noted that he spent a lot of time trying to track alligators and even made it his business, but that was something new.

“I never feel good about killing an animal. But that being said, I respect the harvest,” he said. “Beacons are assigned to balance the population out of control. »

He also referenced an alligator that killed a 2-year-old boy at Disney World in 2016.

“They are killing machines. They can, not that they want to, but it happens. So we also have to balance the population, that’s how we look at it.