Went to my local lake on Sat. and the state gator trapper was out trapping gators due to complaints about residents missing their dogs. I had just launched my boat when the trapper was coming in. I asked how he did and he told me to look in the back of his truck. He 2 gators in the back, one was 10ft and the other was 12ft. The 12 footer was so big around the middle that I couldn't reach all the way around it's mid section, and I have about a 6ft reach! The trapper was a young man about 20 yrs old and he was in a 16 ft aluminum jon boat. He told me he had been pulled around the area for 3 hrs and had to hook up a snatch strap to the gator in order to pull it up the ramp and out of the water. I estimate the 12ft'er weighed between 800 and 900lbs! Sort of cured me wanting to buy that kayak!! Of all the times not to have my camera!! Rob