Not bad for only his second alligator hunt. LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission says a record alligator of nearly 14 feet in length is among the 30 alligators taken during the first segment of the state's alligator season. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission had done a good job managing the species rather than just allowing uncontrolled killing. "Honestly I thought I don't know what I’m going to do with this thing He estimates he'll get around 400 pounds of meat from his catch and hopes to see the gator's head on display at a museum in Arkansas, according to CNN. This alligator fell more than a foot short of the state record (a 13-foot, 10-inch alligator taken in zone 3 in 2015), but was still extremely large and weighed hundreds of pounds. "(It’s) not a good attitude for a hunter to go out expecting not to get one,” Baker told KTHV. Arkansas Game and Fish Drew Baker, of Little Rock, caught the massive 1,100-pound gator with a harpoon, wrestled him for about 40 minutes and then shot him in the head. "The rare catch is overwhelming to Baker, who had to calm his nerves to rope the giant animal in. As the fog lifted from the waters of south Arkansas on the 10th season of alligator hunting in recent history, a record 64 alligators had been harvested in two weekends of hunting. Courtesy photo/ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH COMMISSION Photos: 13-Foot Alligator Is New Arkansas State Record . All rights reserved. September 24, 2012 . October 22, 2019 at 1:00 a.m. Two alligators in excess of 12 feet were taken during the two weekends of the 2019 season in zone 3.Although alligator management zone 1 in southeast Arkansas saw only 32 alligators killed, it was responsible for the largest alligator of the year, a 12-foot, 8-inch male taken on public land. Private entrepreneurs started the raising of crocodriles to export their skin and meat to the United States and Europe. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. River conditions, including bountiful prey fish, seemed to bode well for the alligator gar’s future. The Alabama Alligator (The Stokes Alligator) – 15 feet and 9 inches (4.8 meters). Add your voice! All rights reserved.Hunter Catches Record-Breaking 1,100-Pound Gator In ArkansasA crocodile (Crocodylus Acutus) eats meat in a pond in San Manuel, Cortes department, 200 Km north of Tegucigalpa on October 17, 2012. Spitzer and others participated as angling citizen-scientists supplying data for the gar they caught. LITTLE ROCK – The 2016 alligator season ended just before sunrise Sept. 26. Five members of the Stokes family captured and killed a giant alligator at the Alabama R iver on August 16, 2014, which measured 15 feet and 9 inches (4.8 meters) long and weighed 1,011.5 pounds ( about 458.8 kg). The Democrat-Gazette commenting system is more compatible with Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. An alligator hunter in Arkansas is still riding off the adrenaline rush of catching a record-breaking gator this week. There were some reports of ponds and lakes beginning to dry before the season, which caused a few large alligators found before the hunt to relocate during the season and evade hunters.Additionally, the high flows and flooding that has taken place during the last year may have displaced some alligators or temporarily blocked access to sections of habitat by hunters.This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.Material from the Associated Press is Copyright © 2020, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.