Might be a honey hole!

[Outdoor Writer]

Hey Sissy,

 

Nice bass! -TONY

[jackshoe]

I saw a mark like that on a guy once that was attacked by a kapowie bird, tj. i didn't realize water monsters left the same mark.

[tjhunt2]

I saw a mark like that on a guy once that was attacked by a kapowie bird, tj. i didn't realize water monsters left the same mark.

 

What's a kapowie bird?

TJ

[AZ402]

I'm jealous of that "honey hole", great job on some nice fish!!!

[jackshoe]

I saw a mark like that on a guy once that was attacked by a kapowie bird, tj. i didn't realize water monsters left the same mark.

 

What's a kapowie bird?

TJ

 

A kapowie bird is a bird that flies at an ever increasing speed in and ever decreasing circle until KAPOWIE- he flies up his own rear

[KGAINES]

Jim I don't care what anyone says, there are bodies of water around the valley that would seem to support gators. You have all these people that buy these exotic reptiles which include, venomous snakes, constrictors, gators, and crocodiles, plus the piranha ( I know not a reptile, but still scary). What happens if they just let them go.

 

When I was growing up in Yuma someone killed an alligator that was more than 12 feet long near the old Cibola Landing on the river.

 

It was back in the days when they still had five and dime stores selling 3-to-4-inch-long baby alligators for pets, and quite a few foot-long gators eventually turned up in the canals and river after their owners got tired of them.

 

Such a big one found in the Colorado River made news across the country, though, and a photo appeared in the old Arizona Wildlife Sportsman Magazine. This was in about 1952-53. I still was in high school.

 

I have a copy of that issue somewhere.

 

Bill Quimby

 

Bill there was one spotted and shot in the 40's too, I remember seeing an article on that. The gila and the salt in places reminds me of some of the stuff you see on the discovery channel with the crocs and gators.

[NRS]

Jim I don't care what anyone says, there are bodies of water around the valley that would seem to support gators. You have all these people that buy these exotic reptiles which include, venomous snakes, constrictors, gators, and crocodiles, plus the piranha ( I know not a reptile, but still scary). What happens if they just let them go.

 

When I was growing up in Yuma someone killed an alligator that was more than 12 feet long near the old Cibola Landing on the river.

 

It was back in the days when they still had five and dime stores selling 3-to-4-inch-long baby alligators for pets, and quite a few foot-long gators eventually turned up in the canals and river after their owners got tired of them.

 

Such a big one found in the Colorado River made news across the country, though, and a photo appeared in the old Arizona Wildlife Sportsman Magazine. This was in about 1952-53. I still was in high school.

 

I have a copy of that issue somewhere.

 

Bill Quimby

 

Bill there was one spotted and shot in the 40's too, I remember seeing an article on that. The gila and the salt in places reminds me of some of the stuff you see on the discovery channel with the crocs and gators.

There was a 10-12 foot alligator removed from Pakoon spring on the Arizona Strip last year.

[firstcoueswas80]

Jim, I know dad and I can drag our Champion to the wate given the chance

 

Looks like so dang good fishing!

[mattobertin]

If you ever get over your fear of the water rat let me know I have a sportsmans whouse float tube, pump, large waders, flippers, the whole nine yards I have only used once. It is very nice and you sit pretty high out of the water so you can fend off the water rats! I will sell it for $150 or a trip to that pond!

[COOSEFAN]

Thanks guys. Casey, if I can't even get my 12 ft. aluminum in there without breaking my back, I know you ain't getting that Champion in there! Besides....it's a Champion, it should just stay in the garage.........Triton all the way baby

 

Hey Mattobertin, I appreciate the offer and it sounds like a great price, but I've learned that this pond is VERY shallow! Last night with the wind I got a chance to investigate just about every inch of it! I couldn't keep the boat in one spot to save my life.....wind sucks!!! On just about any spot on this pond I can stick an oar down and touch the bottom and several times I had to use the oar to push off sand bars. I would bet that in a tube you could walk around more than actually swim. Some chest high waders might be the ticket but what happens when the alligator grabs your leg or you trip over a submerged body now that would be scary! I know, i know......I'm a sissy!

[Lance]

Nice fish! Great find!

 

Didn't the G&F recently take a big gator out of a pond in unit 13? Their out there man!

 

Lance

[KGAINES]

Jim since no one else offered I might be willing to check that entire pond for gators or anything else that might bite. My son is small and fast, plus he isn't thinking of what might get him in the pond, don't think I am a bad parent either I would stand right next to the bank and direct him where to swim or walk, and the rope I would have tied to him would be pretty stout, I could even tie it to the truck to pull him out quickly.

[firstcoueswas80]

Thanks guys. Casey, if I can't even get my 12 ft. aluminum in there without breaking my back, I know you ain't getting that Champion in there! Besides....it's a Champion, it should just stay in the garage.........Triton all the way baby

 

Hey Mattobertin, I appreciate the offer and it sounds like a great price, but I've learned that this pond is VERY shallow! Last night with the wind I got a chance to investigate just about every inch of it! I couldn't keep the boat in one spot to save my life.....wind sucks!!! On just about any spot on this pond I can stick an oar down and touch the bottom and several times I had to use the oar to push off sand bars. I would bet that in a tube you could walk around more than actually swim. Some chest high waders might be the ticket but what happens when the alligator grabs your leg or you trip over a submerged body now that would be scary! I know, i know......I'm a sissy!

 

 

You forgot, my dad and I are Charters, not Mullins' (Sorry Pops)

[COOSEFAN]

Thanks guys. Casey, if I can't even get my 12 ft. aluminum in there without breaking my back, I know you ain't getting that Champion in there! Besides....it's a Champion, it should just stay in the garage.........Triton all the way baby

 

Hey Mattobertin, I appreciate the offer and it sounds like a great price, but I've learned that this pond is VERY shallow! Last night with the wind I got a chance to investigate just about every inch of it! I couldn't keep the boat in one spot to save my life.....wind sucks!!! On just about any spot on this pond I can stick an oar down and touch the bottom and several times I had to use the oar to push off sand bars. I would bet that in a tube you could walk around more than actually swim. Some chest high waders might be the ticket but what happens when the alligator grabs your leg or you trip over a submerged body now that would be scary! I know, i know......I'm a sissy!

 

 

You forgot, my dad and I are Charters, not Mullins' (Sorry Pops)

 

THANK GOD!

 

 

[AZ402]

Nice fish! Great find!

 

Didn't the G&F recently take a big gator out of a pond in unit 13? Their out there man!

 

Lance

 

It was taken out of Pakoon Springs in 2005 IIRC. It's neat country out in that area, not somewhere you'd think a gator would be hanging though.