Florida alligator hunting season goes through November and already one local gator hunter scored a huge catch in Lake George: a whopping 13 foot, four inch-long gator.

  • Hunter caught over 13-foot gator on Lake George
  • Billy Moody said he wrestled the gator for about an hour
  • Gator hunting season runs through November.

It could be the largest gator caught this year in Lake George, and it’s in the running for one of the largest in the state this year.

“It was a crazy experience for me. I’ve always wanted to get one over 13 foot,” said Billy Moody.  

Moody got his wish over the weekend while hunting with friends when he reeled in the gator, and four inches above what he hoped for.

The DeLand resident said they wrestled the gator for more than an hour. But Moody’s fear was not that the gator would attack them.

“The only fear I had was of losing it,” said Moody.

Moody and his friends are selling the meat to have their catch professionally mounted.

The head alone measures 2 feet by 1.5 feet across. Now Moody wants to take the entire gator to a taxidermist and have it stuffed. But the question is, where will he put it?

“Thats what everybody’s been saying to me. I tell them I’m getting a full boy mount and they go, where you gonna put it? I say, I’ll figure it out,” responded Moody.

This is not Moody’s first gator hunt and he already has his sights set on future hunts.

“I mean, I’d love to have the state record. Fourteen, I want it 14-4,” he said.

If Moody  succeeds, it will go right alongside his latest catch, making for some cramped living quarters.

Moody said he has no idea how much the gator weighed since they drove it straight to have it processed for the meat.