Predator Xtreme''s managing editor and web producer took part in Alabama''s 2011 alligator season this past weekend in the state''s west central zone. Three-and-half hours into the hunt and the boys were hooked up with the man-eating dinosaur!

Mark Land of Muzzy poses with his 7 foot, 6-inch alligator gar that weighed an impressive 230 pounds—Land’s personal best and the largest of several outsized gar taken on the same summer trip.

Huge record book fish are lining up in this month''s IGFA Hot Catches. Check them out.