A good buddy of mine was lucky enough to draw a Florida alligator tag. He immediately invited our two friends down from Georgia who have a lot of experience hunting gators. Next, he talked me into filming it and since I have never been, I was very interested in experiencing this type of hunt.
I used my Canon HV40 to film the daytime shots and I used a Sony HD HandyCam for the nighttime shots since it has an infrared mode. Be patient with my videoing because it was hard to film while in a boat with 3 other guys in the pitch dark. Another factor is we started hunting one hour before sunset and did not finish until one hour after sunset. We got 9 good video occurrences of gators in the video.
Now, I could only film the first 2 evening hunts and the guys were trying to get a nice size gator. On the 3rd and last evening, they decided to be less picky and they got a beautiful 6 foot gator.
I hope you enjoy these videos. I personally had fun with these guys and chasing these Florida alligators.
Important Note: Part 2 has the best gator footage so make sure you watch this part also!