Swamp People show

gtractorfan · Feb 18, 2012

It's entertaining watching the guys (and gals) catching alligators. A thought occurred, in Florida there are pythons that were released and they're getting huge and multiplying. What if someone released crocodiles in the swamp and they did as well as the snakes? Croc's get over 20 feet long, the known record is 33 feet. If you had that on your hook who'd pull who in?

Jim in Ma. · Feb 18, 2012

And they call it entertaining ???

Anonymous-0 · Feb 18, 2012

Actually saw a doco on that last night, shooting them. When there are none left that sport?? will also die.
Be more interesting if they got into the water with a spear, that would be sport, equal chance.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 18, 2012

The wildlife folks have done studies and said the wildlife populations of rabbit, possum, raccoon, fox have declined by 90-95% in the last 5-8 yrs in this area. This is due to the huge increase in numbers of pythons -they estimate thirty thousand now in south Florida, mainly Everglades. Wonder what they will do when they run out of small game to eat.Maybe the gators will keep them in check.

bo · Feb 18, 2012

It's a controlled hunt, ony so many tags issued. They won't kill them all Crocs won't live in swamps. Crocs are in Africa, Australia and that part of the world. We have a few in florida. Gators are not the wild viscous beast made out on tv. What is so entertaining about a bunch of guys who mumble rather than speak putting chicken on a big hook, hanging it onto a branch and then coming back after the gator hooked itself, hauling it to the boat and shooting it? Any idiot can do that. Even having a snatch hook on the end of a fishing line is no sport at all. This is just a put up job because tv is real hard up for shows.
Very much like noodling for cats in Oklahoma...how many time can you watch a guy sticking his arm into a fishes mouth and then sloshing it around to show a "fight".
Pretty lame all these shows and if you're entertained by a simple shoot them in the head show...well, ok.

Jon Hagen · Feb 18, 2012

Choot em, choot em, LOL. ;-) Fun to watch the characters though. Still better than the scripted "repo" type crap.

Tony2tall · Feb 18, 2012

I think a bounty could be put on the snakes and make a large dent in their population. Have you noticed the abundance of Copper thieves? Those type people would jump at the opportunity! I think a bounty would be cheaper than adding Florida Game & Fish personnel to eradicate the snakes.

JayinNY · Feb 18, 2012

Do crocs only live in saltwater? At least that's what I though.

bo · Feb 18, 2012

No, there are fresh water crocs. Think about it for a minute...in the middle of Africa....freshwater.

gene bender · Feb 19, 2012

Just what do you mean what if there are already too many alligators getting into towns at least the pythons dont eat people. Yes the snakes are a serious problem along with the wild pigs.

john in la · Feb 19, 2012

The swamp people show is a scripted drama show just like all the rest of them. I know one guy that quit the show because he would not do something in the script.

Alligator hunting in Louisiana is a controlled hunt. You have to have tags and only so many tags are given out. To sport hunt alligators you get into a lottery and if your number is drawn you get 2 tags and can then hunt 2 alligators. The guys on the show are hunting owned and leased land. They get tags based on LDW&F studies on how many needs to be killed to keep this section of land in balance. They keep the season very short (1 month) to keep one guy from leasing all the land.

United States already has Crocodiles. They live in southern Florida only. Crocodiles can not take the cold as well as Alligators so they are confined to the equator region.

Get use to the snakes. There is no way they will get rid of them now. If you do not think that is true just do a little reading about the Nutria Rat and you will see what I am saying is true.

Mike (WA) · Feb 19, 2012

Bounty would be the way to go, but guvment agencies want to have control over everything, so probably won't happen.

There is a bounty on pesky Northern Pikeminnow (you know them by the politically incorrect name "Squawfish") in the Columbia and Snake rivers. Its a graduated system: $4 each for the first hundred you catch in a season (you have a punchcard to keep track of numbers); then $5 each for 101 to 400, then 8 bucks each when you've caught over 400. And specially tagged fish are $500, just to keep it interesting.

Several guys make their living at it- forty or fifty thousand a year. That's a lot of fishin', right there.

Texasmark1 · Feb 19, 2012

I like the show having worked tug boats in Southern Texas, Louisiana, and the lower Miss. river during the summers while in high school. Those folks have a unique way of life. I like Troy. Seems like he is pure bred Acadian.

Talk about someone you can get tired of, the old guy griping at his son all the time while trying to recover old submerged logs. If I were his kid I'd have either quit or smacked him a long time ago.

I realize these shows are per a script, all of them, and sometimes it's obvious.....like when the gold miners get a backhoe stuck.....gimme a break.

But at least the networks History and Discovery are producing new things for our viewing pleasure and they aren't bogged down with commercials like a lot of other networks/shows/reports are.

My 2c,
Mark

dabees · Feb 19, 2012

I injoy watching and listening to Troy as much as the rest combined.
I'm with you on the repo crapola. I can't watch those misfits more than 5 minutes without washing my face and hands. They should come to Texas where it's legal for the car owner to fill their fat azz with buckshot if they are on his property after dark taking his car. It would be more intertaining watching them dodge bullets than bullying some gal that's down on her luck.

Ktheo1 · Feb 19, 2012

I don't get your rant .They are not doing this for SPORT.Its thier job ,the way they make a living.Lot better than sitting on thier fat azz getting welfare.If this is how they choose to live more power to them.Iv'e watched them wrestle an 800 lb. gator into a boat and that looks like work to me

mb58 · Feb 19, 2012

Let me put in my two cents worth. I live in Louisiana. Have all my life. It's against the law to kill a gator out of season and without a tag in season. Therefore, due to that wisdom derived from our National and State wildlife Agencies, we are practically overrun with gators. They are in every lake, river, and many farm ponds in the state. Not even any talk of substantially reducing the numbers. These are the same people, who in their wisdom, came through and said "Louisiana has to many deer" and extended the hunting season. Then, to add icing to the cake they introduced the black bear to us. Now the bears are everywhere. They destroy crops and are a general nuisance. But they are more valuble than human beings so you dare not shoot one. One more fact. "SWAMP PEOPLE" is very much scripted and Troy didn't need to hunt gators to make a living. He was already well off before hollywood showed up.

Texasmark1 · Feb 20, 2012

So how did Troy live comfortably prior to being a "Star"?

On the flip side, l tuned in both History and Discovery channels last night. After what you guys said on here, I paid close attention to things that were obviously setup for the show in loggers and offshore gold in Alaska.

First I can't believe Alaska allows their resources to be "harvested" in such an environmentally destructive nature.

Second, I got disgusted with the setup stuff you guys mentioned, "the script" and what it called for and went to an Encore movie channel and watched Bridges of Madison County. Second time I saw it and my sweetie and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Had a meaning for us.

Mark

Tim Barnes · Feb 20, 2012

The Landrys own a gas station in Pierre Part. I heard he also brokers crawfish during that season . He ain't poor and never was but still works hard for what he's got.

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