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Sardis Lake has alligators?
Posted on 6/30/26 at 6:53 am
Posted on 6/30/26 at 6:53 am
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:07 am to State Bird
Morel likely to have snapping turtles there than alligators.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:10 am to State Bird
Deep. Informative. Would read again.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:11 am to State Bird
Weird topic to see, but yes, there are alligators in the lake.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:25 am to State Bird
Just learned Puerto Vallarta has salt water Crocs. One killed a 28 year old man on vacation chilling on the beach, dragging and death spiraling out to sea. 
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:26 am to Pickle_Weasel
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Weird topic to see, but yes, there are alligators in the lake.
I've always been interested in the range of alligators because they have ranged into Oklahoma now (although we have always had a small population in the SE corner of the state)....now they are in a couple more counties in Oklahoma.
Maps show northern MS being the northern end of their range. But I would be interested if any old timers in Oxford would comment as to whether there were Gators in Sardis say 50 years ago.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:27 am to JellyRoll
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Puerto Vallarta has salt water Crocs.
They have American crocodiles. Same as Florida. They can handle salt water.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:29 am to Gunga Din
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Gators in Sardis say 50 years ago.
No. Alligators in Louisiana and southern Mississippi have exploding populations. Alligators need territory and are moving north. It is estimated that just in Louisiana there are almost four million alligators.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:33 am to glassman
Yeah, me misidentifying the species is really the main story here.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:34 am to State Bird
The Army Core of Engineers put them in all the streams / rivers leading to the lakes in North MS back in the 50s or 60s as a way to control the beaver population.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:39 am to JellyRoll
True, just being an early morning shite head. 
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:41 am to glassman
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:43 am to glassman
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No. Alligators in Louisiana and southern Mississippi have exploding populations. Alligators need territory and are moving north. It is estimated that just in Louisiana there are almost four million alligators.
Bout eight years ago I was working by the river just north of Angola and couldn’t believe how many gators I saw. We’re starting to get a lot in Arkansas now. I found one dead in a rice field during ducks season a while back, one arm chewed off by a bigger one.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 8:43 am to State Bird
Oklahoma also has a Sardis Lake. It also has a Lake Eufala like Alabama.
The Choctaws and Chickasaws used the same names for those lakes in Oklahoma as they did back in their traditional home lands of Alabama and Mississippi.
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The Choctaws and Chickasaws used the same names for those lakes in Oklahoma as they did back in their traditional home lands of Alabama and Mississippi.
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 9:13 am to State Bird
Wasn’t Sardis but back when I was in college a buddy and I were wade bowfishing in a bayou off the Yocona River. Game Warden pulls up screaming at us to get the frick out.
Not that we couldn’t be in there but because that was the place they were releasing any gators caught in the area.
Not that we couldn’t be in there but because that was the place they were releasing any gators caught in the area.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 9:14 am to Gunga Din
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Maps show northern MS being the northern end of their range.
Alligators are pretty far up into north carolina now, I wouldn't be surprised if they make it to virginia soon.
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 10:33 am to Gunga Din
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Maps show northern MS being the northern end of their range. But I would be interested if any old timers in Oxford would comment as to whether there were Gators in Sardis say 50 years ago.
It may have been at some point. They have gators up in the Carolinas now.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 10:45 am to Saskwatch
I live in Ocean Springs and my house backs up to a bayou. While I have seen plenty in other places, I have fortunately not seen in a gator in the 3 years I've owned this house. Tons of coyotes, foxes, and a monster of a snapping turtle though.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 10:55 am to glassman
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It is estimated that just in Louisiana there are almost four million alligators.
Thats a lot of Gators...
Posted on 6/30/26 at 11:04 am to State Bird
Went to the wife’s ( gf at the time ) family reunion there one time years ago…. Worst experience of my life probably . Spent the night . God it was awful
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