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Old 07-22-2013, 09:09 AM
 
Location: Lemon Bay, Englewood, FL
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Originally Posted by Mrs. J. Ogre View Post
Personally I would want him "Relocated" before he got too big and started to have issues with us being in "HIS" territory
FWC does not relocate a gator that is simply in a canal doing what gators do. A golf course pond, sure. Not a natural canal (i.e. their home).
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Old 07-22-2013, 09:52 AM
 
Location: Florida
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FWC does not relocate a gator that is simply in a canal doing what gators do. A golf course pond, sure. Not a natural canal (i.e. their home).
If you call the Nuisance Alligator Hotline about any gator over 4 feet in your canal they will send out a trapper. You only need to feel a remote possibility of danger. Trappers get to do what they want with the gator...none are relocated. They are more than happy to come out as they make money from the state and the sale of the meat/hide.

I had a 6 foot gator sunning on my boat ramp everyday for a month this year. At first he would jump in at the sight of us, then he got a little too comfortable, letting us get close and take pictures. Then he started coming up to flat ground and playing in the dirt at night. Having pets, we got a little worried.

I read that mixing human urine and ammonia in a spray bottle was a good deterrent. I figured I'd skip a few steps, so one night during a backyard campfire I marked the area with my "scent", at least 4 or 5 times . Never saw the gator again.
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Old 07-22-2013, 04:54 PM
 
Location: Port Charlotte
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I read that mixing human urine and ammonia in a spray bottle was a good deterrent. I figured I'd skip a few steps, so one night during a backyard campfire I marked the area with my "scent", at least 4 or 5 times . Never saw the gator again.
I thought you were going to say you had Big House over withg a case of youling
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Old 07-22-2013, 06:45 PM
 
Location: Florida
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I thought you were going to say you had Big House over withg a case of youling
That lightweight couldn't drink enough to get the output I needed . If you want a job done right you gotta do it yourself! Besides, I heard gators don't like the High Life.
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Old 07-26-2013, 06:12 AM
 
Location: Port Charlotte
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Doesn't happen very often but we got skunked thursday. Not one fish.Wind and waves were killer. It was a bad day all the way around. The only good thing was the Seatow Captain was friendly.
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Old 07-26-2013, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Port Charlotte, FL - Dallas, PA
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Doesn't happen very often but we got skunked thursday. Not one fish.Wind and waves were killer. It was a bad day all the way around. The only good thing was the Seatow Captain was friendly.
I sense a story to be told.
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Old 07-26-2013, 02:33 PM
 
Location: Anthem, AZ
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I'm going out tomorrow. Read the Fishin Report on Franks website. Looks like reds are heating up in a lot of places.
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Old 07-26-2013, 05:18 PM
 
Location: Port Charlotte, FL
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Are you heading to Hog island or hitting the 41 bridges?

To bad I have furniture showing up tomorrow, I wanted to go out but I don't want to anger Mrs. Ogre.

I was at the bayshore pier on Wed and got loads of sugar trout and baby mangrove snapper but no reds.
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Old 07-26-2013, 06:41 PM
 
Location: Port Charlotte
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ill be saving gas working this weekend good luck MA
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Old 07-27-2013, 05:24 PM
 
Location: Anthem, AZ
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Had a pretty good day. My self and a buddy visiting from SoCal. Launched at 6AM from Charlotte Beach Cx. Returned at 4PM. Tides were high at 730am and low at 115pm.
Weather was beautiful all day until that 4pm squall across the north end of the harbo, near the beach cx ramp. We got the boat landed though, in what had to be gale force winds. Now the report:

Hobbs Point, outside the bar - snook on top water lure at first light
Pirate Harbor, east side keys - small mangrove snappers on live shrimp, with a split shot
Pirate Harbor canals - snook trolling rapala XR8, sliver belly, black/green body
Myakka cutoff Hog Island side - 2 keeper red fish on cut frozen lady fish during rising tide in 1' of water.
We tried live shrimp, dead shrimp, cut frozen pinfish and got zero interest from the Reds.

Cutoff was really mucky at low water.. My outboard intake was clogged with seaweed algae and overheated a few times until I cleared it. No harm done but I will choose to do my lower unit service now instead of the schedule in December. I have to ready for snook season on Sept 1.
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