Check It Out !!!

Holly Dinosaur FASTBACK340!!!:blob:
That is the biggest I have ever seen.
Good eating too. The tail is white meat and looks like a big chicken breast.
I picked strawberries in Dover Fla many years and as a child we would catch baby ones and sell to the pet stores, A single hook and rod and real with a big portion of bacon on it. You could spot the little ones in the shallows and just cast to them and let them take it for awhile and then pull them in.
We was at a sawmill pit and Jimmy found one and caught it.
We jumped on our bikes and hauled @$$ because when that little baby got pulled out "about 10" long" he started whistling for momma and you could see the small pond move and we got the heck out of there.

Hay 5 dolors was a pocket full for two boys in 1970.
I would see alligator crossing the roads and you had to be careful around pond there, Glenn W. strawberry farms in Dover Fla I watched them put two lines " rope" out to get a big pair of gaters out of there iragination pond.
They would tie off to a tree on both side and hang a hole chicken feathers
and all and pull the rope tight across the pond so it would keep the chicken up and away from the turtles. the next morning the line's was under water.
They would pull them to the bank a shoot them.
I remember watching Glen the owner pick the first 3 to four rows of strawberry's next to his watering pond to keep everyone away from the gaiters. But they where only about 6 to 8 ft long.

I remember asking my grandmother the first time I ever seen Glenn the owner Why he was picking that few rows of berries, She said, son there is gaters in that pond that could drag you in and eat you. I was 7 years to eight years old. Some good memories :thumbrig: Thanks for sharing John