Braxton
Bielski, from the Houston area in Texas, will spend his final high
school days basking in the glory of his record-setting, 14-foot-3-inch,
800-pound alligator.
The
18-year-old hooked what is now the heaviest gator ever bagged in Texas
-- on a line with raw chicken as bait -- and then shot it.
Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) officials certified the teen as
the official state record holder last week, according to Fox News.
Bielski made the catch while hunting
with his father, and a friend in the Daughtrey Wildlife Management Area,
near a reservoir 90 miles south of San Antonio, the Houston Chronicle
reported. The TPWD had granted them a permit to legally hunt gators.
Source: Huffington Post
The
teen's beast beats out a catch from 2011, when a 19-year-old Florida
student reeled in a 12-foot, 3-inch, 800-pound gator during a boating
trip.
Of
course, neither gator compares to the 2,370-pound, world
record-breaking crocodile, Lolong, that was captured alive that same
year by villagers in the Philippines. The 20-foot croc passed away in
February 2013.
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