Jim,

After having the pleasure of fishing Sante Cooper with you last year, I never even considered the possiblity that it was you. You showed much too much respect for the large 12+ foot gator we came up on sunning on that sandbank. I'm sorry that the man was attaked, but at some point you have to use a bit of "common" sense and snorkling in shallow weedy back waters of a lake that has a healthy population of large aligators is not a very smart thing to do.

That being said, we all do stup[id things at times and I hope that the man recovers from his injuries and others learn from his mistake as well.

Jim Smith