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... 'So I went over there with my trailer. I saw the alligator. It was hissing and I jumped on the alligator, taped it's mouth shut and put it in my trailer'...
That's just what anyone would have done.
Just moved but I lived within a couple minutes of this area. More likely story was it was flossed with a heavily weighted nymph and bobber.7-foot alligator found along American River under investigation
The Department of Fish and Wildlife have the alligator now, and are trying to figure out where it came from.
Yikes; for those not familiar, the area where the alligator was is a popular area to swing for steelhead.
