The Clarion-Ledger - Outdoors: "The giant alligator captured Saturday night on the Pascagoula River has consolidated the state records for sport hunting, wildlife officials confirmed.
Biologist Ricky Flynt, the alligator project coordinator for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, said the records for length and weight officially belongs to Lyman 'Jack' Hamilton of Moss Point.
Hamilton's gator was 13 feet, 6 1/2 inches long and weighed 633 pounds.
The previous record for length was 13 ft., 3/4-inch caught by John McLeod of Brandon on Barnett Reservoir in 2007. The previous heaviest gator was 571 pounds caught by John Ratcliff of Canton in 2006 on Barnett."
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