Global Sports: A Proper Guided Gator Hunting In Louisiana

Thursday, November 12, 2015

A Proper Guided Gator Hunting In Louisiana

By Mattie Knight


A Louisiana gator is one of the largest reptiles in United States with the population of the reptiles approximating to over 1.4 million gators. Many of these creatures live around commercial farms. If you want to try reptile hunting in Louisiana, you should try it only in the month of September every year. The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in the city set the dates. Every hunter in the city uses guided gator hunting in Louisiana.

The hunters of this reptile must be licensed before engaging in the habitats. They should own a land classifies as wetland habitat. Harvest tags are given to the owners of these lands by the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Guides throughout their trips escort the qualified hunters.

The non-resident hunters who have leased or owned land in the city use Hunter Licenses and are mostly accompanied by guides who have valid tags. They aid them in accessing the best habitats on the marshes. They are able to take you to the unsurpassed habitats with the biggest catch. In these habitats, one can get an 8 feet long catch also known as the trophy alligator. Harvest tags should be put on them. Taxidermy is not incorporated in cost of trip.

The trips are offered with or without overnight lodging. Some guiding companies take hunters on day hunts while others may take them for night hunts. The weekend hunts sometimes may include overnight camping like in Yellow Bayou camp. However, there are other lodging services at every hotel in the city. Tanning services are not mostly included in cost of the trip. Any hunting trip offered at Wildlife Lodge and Grosse Savanne Waterfowl includes accommodations for overnight trips. Provost Adventures in LA offer trips for hunters only.

The hunters are given an orientation before the trip begins. The hunting can be made during sunset or during the sunrise only. The seasonal and daily quota is as equal as the tags that every hunter has. Hunters are allowed to get any size of the reptile in their hunt. Different ways of getting the catch can be used.This involves hook and line, bow and arrow, and firearms however short guns are highly restricted.

Non-residents can hunt the reptile but should be fully guided. The guide must have valid harvest tags if they have leased an habitat or they own any. If they do the proper presentation of relevant and needed information, the non-residents can be given these tags.

A Sport Hunter License in Louisiana for residents may cost less than the cost of non-residents. Louisiana City is the king when it comes to this reptile harvests with the hunters harvesting over 30,000 wild gators annually. Farmers are able to harvest over 280,000.

Hides are sold to licensed fur buyers and dealers. Sometimes the whole gator is sold to the processing industries to make other products. Other buyers can arrange to get the meat and skin of the big reptile from the hunters. Louisiana has at the past years dominated in breeding and hunting of the reptile.




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