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re: Conway alligator - it's huge
Posted on 4/1/26 at 6:56 pm to hawgfaninc
Posted on 4/1/26 at 6:56 pm to hawgfaninc
What kind of work do you do?
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Posted on 4/1/26 at 7:15 pm to cubsfan5150
Engineering type work
Posted on 4/1/26 at 10:14 pm to ArHog
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Palarm Liquor
Lol, I worked at Sody's Liquor on the other side of Tree's Place about 25 years ago.
This post was edited on 4/1/26 at 10:16 pm
Posted on 4/2/26 at 11:51 am to Harry Rex Vonner
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ETA:theyre obviously migrating north
You can thank global warming
Posted on 4/3/26 at 2:27 pm to Barneyrb
I remember in 98 I was fishing off a dock at one of my dads friends places on Lake Conway in the dark when a big alligator came swimming by. Scared the shite out of me so I went inside to watch the football game. I got inside just in time to watch Clint Stoerner fumble.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 7:55 pm to omahawg
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I remember in 98 I was fishing off a dock at one of my dads friends places on Lake Conway in the dark when a big alligator came swimming by. Scared the shite out of me so I went inside to watch the football game. I got inside just in time to watch Clint Stoerner fumble.
So, you are telling us that if you would have just sacrificed yourself for the gator, we would have a NC from that season? Daggum!
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:03 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Growing up in Ashley County, we saw plenty around. Felsenthal has a healthy population and I always saw them in the Saline River backwaters.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:56 pm to Roy Suggs
Really surprised nobody has brought up Millwood Lake, well known for it's gator population.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 2:46 pm to Barneyrb
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Really surprised nobody has brought up Millwood Lake, well known for it's gator population.
Bro... TONS of giants swimming around that place... I swear they size up your boat at times.
Posted on 5/11/26 at 8:17 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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ETA:theyre obviously migrating north
Everything is
Saw an armadillo in Sewanee, Tennessee maybe just before c19.
Posted on 5/11/26 at 8:46 pm to Barneyrb
quote:We fished a tournament there three weeks ago. In two days we counted 15 and we weren't just scouring the water for them either. They are all over Millwood.
Really surprised nobody has brought up Millwood Lake, well known for it's gator population.
Posted on 5/11/26 at 9:58 pm to Arkapigdiesel
The Arkansas fish and game commission has estimated that Arkansas has 3,000 gators.
I believe that is false and that number is over 10,000.
I believe that is false and that number is over 10,000.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 11:14 am to dchog
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The Arkansas fish and game commission has estimated that Arkansas has 3,000 gators.
That's a partial statement..... "in Millwood alone " is the rest of that sentence
Posted on 5/13/26 at 12:31 pm to ElDawgHawg
I'm pretty sure those are BS estimates as they are downplayed in that they don't want you scared of going to these lakes and rivers.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 12:49 pm to dchog
Swam by us routinely as we floated or played in Little River. A few have lived in the ponds at Nashville CC my entire life.
This post was edited on 5/13/26 at 12:52 pm
Posted on 5/14/26 at 1:08 pm to dchog
Most crocodilians, unless they are heavily specialized, are quite good at bouncing back from population reduction.
The American Alligator is even better at it than their cousins. They have a super varied diet. They can even survive having their ponds freeze. Now that people aren't actively killing them crazy they recover quickly to fill their old niche. Half of the state is prime Alligator territory.
Mother Nature settled on the perfect design for the Gator hundreds of millions of years ago and it still works just fine today.
The American Alligator is even better at it than their cousins. They have a super varied diet. They can even survive having their ponds freeze. Now that people aren't actively killing them crazy they recover quickly to fill their old niche. Half of the state is prime Alligator territory.
Mother Nature settled on the perfect design for the Gator hundreds of millions of years ago and it still works just fine today.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 5:19 pm to Arksulli
don't they fall asleep in the freeze in December and wake back up in February or March?
Posted on 5/14/26 at 5:45 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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don't they fall asleep in the freeze in December and wake back up in February or March?
Yup... with their snouts sticking up out of the water so they can breathe.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 2:20 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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