An alligator hunter from Orlando has broken the state record for the longest documented alligator – breaking a 13 year record.
Robert "Tres" Ammerman snagged a 14 foot, 3½ inch long alligator just after midnight on November the 1st, the last day of alligator hunting season.
He caught the massive reptile from the Lake Washington area of the St. Johns River in Brevard County.
The previous record for length was held by a 14-foot, 5/8-inch alligator taken from Lake Monroe in 1997 by a nuisance-alligator trapper.
And while Ammerman’s gator holds the length record, it doesn’t even come close to the heaviest gator.
Ammerman’s gator weighed 654 pounds – the heaviest alligator on record weighed 1,043 pounds and was taken from Orange Lake in 1989.
It was also taken as a nuisance gator.
The FWC will be sending Ammerman a letter certifying his record alligator.
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