Monster gator meets his match

Smiths drag 12-foot 'Big John' from their backyard pond.

  • Stephen and Amy Smith with ‘Big John’ a 12-foot alligator they hunted and caught in the 15-acre pond behind their home off Lake Jeffery Road. (COURTESY STEPHEN AND AMY SMITH)
    Stephen and Amy Smith with ‘Big John’ a 12-foot alligator they hunted and caught in the 15-acre pond behind their home off Lake Jeffery Road. (COURTESY STEPHEN AND AMY SMITH)
  • Amy Smith said it took five hours of fighting ‘Big John’ to pull the massive alligator from the pond. (COURTESY STEPHEN AND AMY SMITH)
    Amy Smith said it took five hours of fighting ‘Big John’ to pull the massive alligator from the pond. (COURTESY STEPHEN AND AMY SMITH)
    Exhausted from the five-hour struggle against the beast, Amy Smith felt a shiver in her spine when “Big John” was dragged out of the water.  She didn’t think it would be that b...

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