You gator country guys

[Rebsbud]

How cold do y’all want it to be before using your retriever? Read they can’t digest food at 70 degrees so quit eating then & hibernate at 55. What say ye?

[Duckologist]

How cold do y’all want it to be before using your retriever? Read they can’t digest food at 70 degrees so quit eating then & hibernate at 55. What say ye?

Just dont hunt em in deep marsh in Sept where u know ders gators. Once November comes dey huntin every day

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[DUKFVR]

Not until we get the 1st days in the low 50's or less and water gets real cool. I am probably paranoid over my dog and gators, but I know of 2 dogs got by gators. Just not worth it to me.

[Runnin' 87]

You are OK until you get into swimming water.

We do a real good scan for eyes until it gets into the 40s. Even then. They will get out on the bank and sun in the afternoon

[Agduckhunter]

Not until we get the 1st days in the low 50's or less and water gets real cool. I am probably paranoid over my dog and gators, but I know of 2 dogs got by gators. Just not worth it to me.

I remember a day this past January where you and I were looking at multiples sets of red eyes in waist deep water. I believe the temp was in the low 40s that morning, right? I kept Tubbs close to my side until his stand was set up.

Ronnie, you know we have TONS of gators in Liberty. I DO NOT hunt there in teal season. That said, I've never had any issues during big duck season, but I am cautious about where I'll hunt a dog and water depth if it's been warm for a few days. I have pics of 12 foot gators out in January. Would they eat? I doubt it, but they're definitely not hibernating.

[DUKFVR]

You are right about the day Dane.

[Spoonbilla]

If hes swimming and in a high gator marsh, im leaving him in da kennel above 70°. I hunt a lot of rice during teal season, i just keep him out of the canals.

[Iluvlabs]

I don’t do gators. But curious, when a gator hibernates, where does it do this at?


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[El General]

I don’t do gators. But curious, when a gator hibernates, where does it do this at?


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Wherever it wants.

[Iluvlabs]

Wherever it wants.

Short way of saying you don’t know. Got it


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[burns_312]

Hits close to home. Saw a couple gators today.





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[BlueGoose]

Kansas gators. Why not? Lubbock County has a gator season. Makes perfect sense.

[Duckologist]

I don’t do gators. But curious, when a gator hibernates, where does it do this at?


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Dey bury up in a hole in da marsh. Dey can go a very long time between breaths with the slow metabolism. Der hibernation ain't like a bear.

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[Coastal Ducks]

Yeah, they dig a burrow in the bank. They like spots where there is a cut bank, like a dropoff of a few feet from high ground down to the water. They dig in there and hole up.

[Runnin' 87]

They go up under duck blinds, in culverts under driveways, under bank over hangs, burrow up under grass in a walllow.