Treble H00king CHA0S in the Water | Swamp People
We winding down the tide, we got a storm building up. You’re dealing with mother nature here, so when you got the opportunity to catch, you better catch. We put a flag on this one? What? We flagged this one? I thought it was right here where I had put it. Oh no, right there. I see it. Oh yeah, I see it. Oh yeah.
You see the line? Yeah, it’s going to that other cypress tree over there. Oh yeah, and that’s the line. It’s wrapped around Oh yeah, I got it. What do you got, B? Drowned. You got a de@d gator, huh? Yeah. If it’s still moving, well, I don’t know. It’s pretty stiff, huh? A de@d 6-footer is not the start Troy was expecting.
It’s the first one we catch, huh? It’s the first one we catch, huh? Yeah, that would suck. How long has he got? Stumps everywhere. Come on, I know we put a line in here somewhere. Come on, little girl. Do you see anything? Gator, we pull him, pull him, pull him. Hurry up. Pull him, he’s a big one.
He’s a big one. Pull him up. Pull up. Good job, Peewee. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, what a little slimy thing, huh? Another small gator has Troy worried, but he’s staying the course. Certain places you catch big alligator, certain places you catch little alligator. And you very seldom going to catch a big alligator in a spot where the little ones are. But, this is a good area.
We catch good here. It’s always been productive. They got alligators swimming all over them. Why don’t you let me throw a treble h00k on them? Peewee, ain’t got time to treble h00k. We got to set lines, run lines, move lines. You know, Peewee loves to treble h00k. I’m just the opposite. I want to run lines. You got a lot of tags to fill.
You’re never going to fill them treble h00k. But, you can fill them running lines. We line people. We’re not treble h00k people. On a good day, you might catch four or five treble h00king. On a good day running lines, you’re going to catch 40. That’s the difference, okay? Okay. We all know Mr.
Troy likes to run lines, and he doesn’t like to play at all. So, for me to convince him to stop and let me treble h00k for a second and just kind of do what I love to do is a pain, you know? Uh-oh, look like we got a crime scene, P Wee. Looks like it’s wrapped up. Welcome it, P. Oh, yeah. Come here. Come here. That’s a good one. Oh, wait.
Hold on. Never mind. Psych. Oh, god. That’s why I keep begging you for the treble h00k. We got too many babies in the area. Bring him up. Woo. Don’t wake him up. Watch him. P, bring him up. Just the thing. Give him a sh0t. Bring him up. Bring him up. Bring him up. Please let me throw the treble h00k. You got to let me throw the treble h00k out here.
This is the fourth small catch of the morning, and it’s got Troy reconsidering his stance on treble h00king. I can’t just have it my way. I got to let her have her fun. You know, she likes the treble h00k. Running lines get old. It’s always the same thing. So, you know, maybe we need to step up to the plate and fish it harder than we’ve been fishing.
See you. Oh, yeah. That’s a good one. It look like a big one there. Yeah, that’s a big one. That’s the one I think you could treble h00k this evening. Oh, well, then why can’t I get him now? to try to get him now? Yeah. Get your stuff ready. Treble h00king alligators is my absolute favorite way to fish.
When you are f1ghting a raw fresh alligator, it’s either you or him, really. You either you getting pulled in or you’re going to hold on long enough and have enough stamina to wear him out. That’s the ultimate to me as far as alligator fishing goes. And so, I get my chance. I know right where he’s at. Oh, no, there’s a log right there.
I’m going to catch the log. Got the log. Yep. Hurry up and pick up and throw again. He’s right there, though. Oh, yeah, you on top be true. You on top of him. Right in front of the boat. Right in front of the boat. Oh, he’s right over there. Over there. Over there. Over there. Over there. All right, I see you.
Lord, if you can h00k into that thing, we got a f1ght on our hands. What? Got him? I think so. Oh, that him. Got him. That’s him. You got him? Damn, I lost him. Oh, no, you lost him. Hold on. Looks like he’s stopped. He is stopped right there, Pickle. This is your chance. Don’t mess it up. I got him.
I got him. I got him. I got him. He come off. I was on him. Give me the all the h00k. We’re not We’re not setting it. Oh. I had him. Oh, yeah. Oh, he broke your h00k. Pickle’s plan snagged the giant. But with this be4st escaping, the h.unters are still left with a boat full of small gators. I’m devastated at this point.
and this is the biggest alligator I’ve ever tried to throw a h00k on and he got away from me. He broke my h00k. My favorite treble h00k is gone and I got to retire this and try to deal with a new h00k that I’m sure I’m not going to like. Ooh, big. Big. Big. Big. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. That’s a big I think it’s Where did he stop? He’s over there straight towards that little tree.
Throw it right by them gra.ss. I think he moved. I thought I saw bubbles over there. Oh my god. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. YEAH. YEAH. GOT IT. GET THE GUN. OOH. THAT’S A BIG ALLIGATOR. WHAT ARE YOU TELLING ME? OOH, THAT’S A BIG ONE. LOOK AT THAT. GO. GO. OOH. WHAT? GOOD JOB, LITTLE GIRL. GOOD JOB. OH, I love it. Ooh.
With this 12-footer captured, Piguet was feeling good that her treble h00k prevailed. I’m happy. Mr. Troy is happy. He finally let me stop. Maybe he’ll let me treble h00k a little more. We got him, Piguet. Well, that’s it. What a way to finish the day, huh? Yeah, we got him. That’s all that matters.
Let’s go ice him down. Let’s go. Ooh. Let’s go ice me down. He might have that. Big old gator. That’s a bull gator. You better hold on to it. You better hold ON TO IT. OH. OH. 7:00 A.M. ON THE BAYOU. Temperatures are already pushing 90° with 95% humidity. And the forecast only gets worse. 110 mi northwest in Bayou Sorrel, veteran gator h.unter Willie Edwards has spent the season teaching his greenhorn son, Little Willie, the ins and outs of gator h.unting.
Today’s lesson, the dangers and secrets of h.unting in excessive heat. In pants and stuff, you ain’t used to wearing pants, you used to wearing shorts and t-shirt. And you ain’t used to that sweating. You’d be wanting some relief mighty quick. Willie knows firsthand just how de@dly the heat and humidity of South Louisiana can be.
I’m already sick in my stomach. Had a life stroke a couple years ago and ever since then, I can’t take the heat near as much as I used to. I get to sweating so much, I’ll get home and my boots will be over my ankles in nothing but sweat. Got the bl00d I got, that old thick bl00d. Don’t circulate too much.
What we got? Nothing. Willie, enough. Ah, nothing on. I don’t know what the world went on. Still hanging, huh? You got the alligators everywhere and they not biting. And we just something got to change quick. The alligators appear to be avoiding the bait cooking in the extreme Louisiana sun. So, Willie’s plan is to move to deeper, cooler waters and rely on the Edwards family secret w3apon, the treble h00k.
He can always whip out the treble h00k if they ain’t biting. And that treble h00k, that’s the main tool in the boat. What? Underneath that treetop. I see his head up over there. I think that was his head right there. This thing was biting me right there. swimming into the bank. I seen him. We take it way around it.
Go way over there. Watch it. When you snatch him, you snatch him hard. Now. You got it? Don’t roll it against the side of the boat. You’ll tear it up. Get up. Back up away from that side. Don’t let the h00k come off. Let me get a h00k. Pull him tight. Watch him like he’s going to sl4p you in the face.
Okay, don’t bend that over the side of the boat. You’re going to pop a rope. That bugger was pulling, huh? I think you caught him way in the end of the tail. Steered it in the mouth. You got one. It’s all me. I’m forgetting what they feel like. I mean a big one. Ready? Let’s go. This giant 11-ft be4st is just what Willie was hoping for when he switched up his strategy to beat the heat.
First one of the morning, Willie. Talking about the brew, too. The brew. Now h.unting giants in the deep cool water with the Edwards family secret w3apon, the treble h00k, the intense heat is starting to fry Willie and Little Willie’s brains, causing some father-and-son squabbling. Oh, yeah? That’s how it is? Ah, we get out there.
I mean, we call each other names. We call I call him a Jonah. know, what bad luck and all kind of stuff and I wish you was going to college or something. Get off of me. Hey, I’m helping you out, dog. I ain’t your dog. Don’t talk to your little friends on the street like that. Don’t talk to me like that or you’re going to get p.unched in the teeth.
I mean, we go back and forth and I mean, every now and then I have to offer him out on the bank, but Well, I’ll put you over, boy. You made me go over my boot. You see that? Watch it. Better back up. Water all up in to get more than wet. Everything. Now, get back in the boat. Oh, say anything you want to. I owe you, sucker.
Water all up in my boot. I mean, he knows, I mean, daddy still got it. I mean There ain’t no way he can hang with it. Come on, put that h00k on there. I ain’t touched you. Why you about to fall down? You’ve been drinking on some moonshine? I’ve done done the same things and everything with my dad and everything in the boat, but there’s time for playing and there’s time for working and we try to do a little both every all day long.
You might get it. You might get it. Well, put that alligator Big old gator. He’s gone. nowhere. Oh, that’s a bull gator. That’s a bull gator. You got to hold on to him. Don’t let Hold on to him. Oh, boy. Got some f1ght in this one. Hold tight. Hold tight. I got him in the back of the tail. Watch him, boy. Hold him. Hold him.
Hold him. Hold him. Hold him. Watch out. Get him up here. Come on, get him up here. Come Come on. What a gator. Roll him over. Look at his old thing. Woah. That is a big one. We got a brute, son. Big Daddy Wheel right here got to show you how to h00k a gator now. Yo, here we go. Catching this 11-ft monst3r on the treble confirms Willie’s suspicions.
He decides to pull down some of his earlier baits cooking on the shoreline. Man, don’t tie that rope, Willie. But Little Willie is struck by an Edwards family problem, a Charlie horse. What you got, a Charlie horse? Sweating too much? Just like I get them. Got to start drinking some plenty fluids. And they do get even worse, they get in your belly.
All in your stomach. That’s when they bad. When you get them cramps, when you can’t you can’t even hardly feel them coming. They they sneak up on you and they knock you on your knees. They hurt. Hey, Willie, I got you something this morning you need to go drink some of that. I’ll drink it. Come on. You got to drink it.
You got to get that uh vinegar in your uh in your bl00d and stuff with it thinning your bl00d, you won’t have them Charlie horses then. When you drink that pickle juice, the vinegar and stuff, it’s thinning your bl00d. And it makes your bl00d flow good and you stop all the Charlie horses and knock it out. This stuff right here is nasty. Hey.
It’ll get rid of them Charlie horses. Charlie horses and It’ll help you out. And I mean, you got to drink it down. I don’t want to drink that pickle juice. It’s kind of nasty and everything. It got a weird taste to it, but uh if it helps you out, it helps you out and you got to do what you got to do.
If you’re a man, you got to drink that. And I’m full bl00ded, man. Full bl00ded. I drunk my fair share. Having overcome debilitating heat cramps, Willie and Little Willie have one more monst3r in their sights. As the sun finally begins to creep toward the horizon, It’s a big old alligator. There you go. Pull it. Pull it, Ronnie.
Snatch him hard. Oh! He ain’t going nowhere. Calm down. That’s a big old gator right there. Look at that pile of bubbles in the bio right there. Yeah, that’s him. Throw it across there. Snatch it hard. Got it? Get up. Pull it tight. Snatch it a couple times. Oh! Oh! I got it. Got it. Got it. Oh! This ain’t no legitimate no 9-10 footer.
Watch out. Watch out. Watch out. Watch out. We got a monst3r back here. Gary, you get your g.un ready. Watch back here. He’s a way back on the end of the tail. You can be in the front of the boat, Willie. You see them bubbles right there? Yeah. Follow them bubbles. Here he come. Here he come. Watch for it.
Watch for his head to come up. Here he come. Here he come. When you can see his head under that water, you can shoot him. He’s up. Go. That’s a big old gator. I can get it to grab that h00k and twist try to pull it up to me. This 11-ft 500-lb behemoth is a just reward for a long, hard day in the scorching sun. What an alligator.
Huh? I said, “What alligator?” And for Little Willie, he’s learned a valuable lesson on how to deal with extreme conditions on the swamp. Yeah, and that sun and everything. Make sure you drink plenty of water. I mean, drink drink you some pickle juice and everything cuz being all cramped up and not being able to help my dad in the boat and everything kind of gets to you and everything cuz that’s what you that’s what you’re there for.
You getting on up the ditch get on out of here. I get some air in face. I might have to pa.ss out. Over in Bayou Sorrel, solo h.unter Willie Edwards also heads for a faraway hole. He’s got an old score to settle. Yeah, we’re going back here check a little hole called the Black Lagoon. Last year I had a big one I caught on the line and he broke the h00k.
Look at that. That’s a 14-hour h00k and when you see one straighten like that and you see a trail where he went on the bank at that’s 13-ft easy. Alligators can stay submerged for over 30 minutes. So, Willie keeps a lookout for methane bubbles released from the giants below. There he is over there.
We’re going to catch him and we going wrestle him down. Manhandle him. Show him who’s boss. I got him. I got him. He’s big. He might be 13-ft. We got a bull. Cool, look at the head on that thing. And I got him in the belly and that don’t hold no alligator. Stick your head up. He’s about to get off.
After emptying his six-shooter, Willie still can’t slow this monst3r down. My treble h00k is back down to get his head up. No bull3ts. He slightly got my foot. I got some bull3ts, though. In big boy right here. See if he can pack this one off. Come on, boy. Show your head now. You got to worry about packing that one off.
He done. Look at the head on this thing. I can’t even get my my hands around his mouth. That’s definitely him. That’s definitely him. You catch that alligator right there, it felt good. I mean, he done got away from me so many times, and to catch him, it was just amazing. And uh it was just the right time, right moment, and he he didn’t get away.
Ain’t no way I’m going to get that up there. I have to h00k him off and go find a tree. Willie can’t lift the 500-lb gator by himself, but he’s got a plan. Get right here, wrap around a couple of them limbs up there and hope and pray that it’ll pick him up high enough, give me enough leverage where I can heave him over in the boat.
I hope it don’t pull the tree down. I don’t know what we can do with it. Then I’m going to uh put his head over in the boat. Give me that long one. You can give me that leg. But, you got to come. Big stocky gator. As you see, he’s loaded. This gator might be 13 ft. He’s fr3aking huge. Daylight breaks across the bayou as
gator season nears completion. In Bayou Sorrel, Willie Edwards is anxious to get the day going. And Little Willie’s brought a surprise he made himself. Got something a little new today. What do you got there, boy? We’re going to try out this four prong h00k. Oh my goodness. to I’m going to we’re going to see how that works.
you got that three prong right there. And that’s a big h00k. That’s that there. just going to try it out and see how it works. Come out this morning, brought a different kind of h00k and everything. I think it’d be a good idea, and I think it’s a big advantage. You got four h00ks instead of three, and you’re going for sure sink probably two h00ks in him.
It looks like it’s got some weight to it. It looks like it help. too heavy. But, we’ll try it, though. How do you tell you ain’t even held it? I see it. See how big the is? That’s way too heavy. It’s going to get hung up more than anything. We’ll try it though. Kind of figured if we had a little more h00ks on it, it might work a little better.
Anything you catch better. For him to bring that h00k to the landing and everything and wanting to try something different, that shows he’s wanting to progress and wanting to show effort to it, but when you been alligator h.unting so long and been building h00ks and stuff and doing this stuff for years, I mean, you know right off the bat when you look at it, he made the shaft way too big, too much lead in it, and it’s way too heavy.
And uh we’re going to try it though. We’re going to see how it goes. Get this morning started. Get back there where them big big ones at and where they got plenty to play with. He wants to stick to his three-prong h00k cuz they’ve been working out for years. I mean, that’s all they’ve been using and everything, but I’m anxious to use my h00k I made and everything and see if it works.
See a big one that been down this way, man. Go catch that. Just went down. He’s a big one, too. See right there? There’s some bubbles, big pile of bubbles right here. Get your h00k. Grab the four-prong. He’s right there. Hurry up. Hurry up. Come on. Throw it. Hurry up. Throw it out there. Pull the tape. Pull the tape.
Man. Man, you threw it way off of that thing. This h00k is too heavy. Got to hurry. Got to pick up the pace. We’re running out of time. He’s going down the bank. Who knows what he’s doing now, man? He’s fooling with it too much. It is. It’s him. 100% positive it’s him. Hurry up. Come on. What you got there? Oh, that’s a big one.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that’s a big one. Watch it. Watch it. Don’t get too close, boy. Come on. Get him up here. Hey little lady. You got to come over here to cheer. This 11-ft monst3r is a great catch, but Willie isn’t saying I told you so, not just yet. I knew that was like that four-prong wasn’t going to work.
It’s way too heavy. I’m a little disappointed. I mean, I was counting on myself and everything. I was trying to prove to my dad I had what it takes to build a h00k and it I failed at it. But, you never give up. You keep on trying and make a little adjustment on the four-prong and everything and I’m going to show them what that four-prong going to do.
He still got a lot to learn and you can tell kids something and they they go through one ear and out the other, but until they find out on their own, that’s how you be a good alligator, honey. You learn from your mistakes and you listen to elders that done done it before way longer than you ever have. Got the bull right there in the middle right there swimming across.
Come on. Hurry up. Get your h00k. As little Willie prepares for battle, he grabs his father’s old faithful three-prong treble h00k instead. Lay off of it. Lay over here. I know. Got it. Oh. Oh. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Come on. Get him up. Oh. Watch it. Watch it. Don’t get too close, boy. Lost the h00k on the belly.
Got to get it off. Another 8-footer is good for the Edwards total. But Willie wants to know which h00k his son used. Why you didn’t use that h00k, you bro? I wanted to make sure I caught him. That other h00k is just We got to We got to fish him. Soon as I knew that four prong h00k wasn’t going to work and everything, I hung it up and pulled that three prong back out.
It does work a lot more than that four prong. That three prong, you can throw it overboard and nine times out of 10 you got it. If you set the h00k right. The four prong h00k, you got more h00ks trying to h00k him and everything, but it’s just too much heavy. You have to You have to melt all that back down and everything and get you a smaller shaft on it and put less lead in it, make it look lighter.
I will get it right. We’re taking uh I had to melt it down though, but I had to bring it back home, get your uh uh get your ball and pot uh the burner and everything and then melt it back down and then re-pour. I learned how to make treble h00ks from my dad and uh he he taught me first time he taught me, I never forgot it.
And we make uh treble h00ks like no other people make them. I mean, we we do our own little special way. And Willie, he got a little bit to learn on the treble h00k. Right out there. Right out there. Right out there. Throw it. Throw it. Get him. Get him. Get him. Got it in the tip of the tail. Got to let him down, son.
Let his head to come up. Let him down. I’m letting him down. Come up with it. Come up with it. Here you go, baby girl. It buried that h00k. Get it. That’s like a shooting some bl00d, huh? Talking about. After catching this final 8-footer with the Edwards traditional treble h00k, Willie’s confident that with a little time his son will master the family tradition.
He’s paying attention to what I what I tell him and everything and he’s learning from what his mistakes and everything and I’m proud of him. He is putting his head in the game and he he wants to do it. Got a fear. I think I’m going to keep working on it and everything and if you want to be successful you got to put your mind to it and you got to you got to listen to the feedback and everything.
See what he can teach me and see what I can learn.
