Alligators

[mperry]

Any Indiana members up around Indianapolis hear about the alligators in the white river. I heard there was 2 of them. One around 10 to 12 feet and the other one 3 to 4 feet long. So far they have not been found.

[TI]

It's been all over the news. A police officer was one of the eye witnesses. I'm still doubtful. There has been a ton of debris moving through the last few weeks. We'll see what the DNR says.

TI

[lov2fish]

I was fishing that exact pool last Saturday and never saw a thing. I ran all over that pool and I didn't see anything that even remotely looked like a gator. TI is correct, the water was up and alot of debri floating around, could have been someone's eye's playing tricks on them.....

[mperry]

I don't think I would be fishing the white river until I found out for sure.

[Moose1am]

I talked to a DNR part time employee today. He said he fished the White River downstream of Petersburg yesterday and caught some big channel cats while jug fishing. One of his jigs went under and he lost it. Makes me wonder what took that jug under water. The DNR guy thinks it was an 80 lb catfish. He said he went about 6 miles down the White River from Petersburg.

What area on the White River did they say the policeman saw the Alligator?

Alligators being reptilian will have a very tough time surviving our winter months. They don't tolerate the cold water very well. But turtles are also reptiles as are snakes and they make it though the winters here in IN with no ill effects, so who knows what the gators may do.

I have heard that those jumping carp are in the pits that I fish. Evidently the same DNR guy that lost the jug takes a DNR boat out on the Bluegrass Fish and Wildlife Pits all this summer and he told me that he saw some of these jumping carp. These are the ones that get frighten by boat motor noises and jump about 3 ft out of the water.

I would hate to be going full speed in my boat and have one of them 20lb carp jump out of the water and run into me. That would do a lot of damage even to a slower boat.

[Topwater2004]

The water is too cold right now for alligators to in-habit the White River.

There are gators in the rivers in the summer from pets people get rid of, but they die by early fall or the DNR captures them.

Here is a link to document gator removal from the Wabash.
http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/speci...cimenID=166775