Alligator SCARE!! Florida Everglades Never Fails to Amuse and Terrify 😳

Watching a Florida alligator gar (type of fish that is NOT an alligator) stalk a @Rapala Skitter walk and got the surprise of our lives in the Florida Everglades!!

You know we're from Cape Coral but, we took a day trip to the Everglades and drove around checking out fishing spots with a plastic @RapalaSkitter walk (lure), targeting Peacock Bass. We had spent a few minutes canvassing the water before we began fishing and filming... but gators are stealthy ambush hunters. As soon as he saw our guards were let down, he emerged and scared the sh** out of us!

Yes, we expected to see Gators.

No, we aren't tourists. Believe it or not we were all born and raised in the FL wilds. Just got startled by a neighbor 😆

No, we did not feed, touch or harass this gator.

Yes, to your last question. Just yes.

[capecoraljade]

Just wanna thank all ya'll for the love AND the hate!! But mostly for all the stories you guys have left of your own encounters! Hilarious and terrifying!

[LighthawkTenchi]

Pro tip for anyone new down here: if you see a body of fresh water, assume that there is at least one decent sized alligator in it, and you probably won’t see it in time

[nikkim]

Woman “watch me fall in”
Gator “watch me catch you” 😂

[eddiec]

Never fear the alligators you see. Fear the ones you don’t.

[gangstalicious]

Gator: "Kay, you've spotted me, you win. Now let's stop pretending and just jump in"

[Ninja_Walrus]

She seems really content on letting her friends know that she literally shit herself and making sure everybody knows she’s not just using the terminology 🤣

[MagicalGirlContractor]

As a floridian, you can tell these are the ones that are gonna be weeded out in the gator culling since they took so long to notice that.

[kerianhalcyon]

You know what's really scary? If you know where to look you can actually see the gator at about 0:05 seconds in. It's actually not staring at the girls/camera at all, but at the guy fishing, then turns its head to look over at the camera and then reposition for optimal striking distance. You can see the slightly paler outline of its mouth as it moves its head. Opportunistic predator in action.

[EbonKim]

Fishermen: Trying to catch an alligator gar with a plastic lure.
Alligator: Trying to catch a fisherman with an alligator gar.

[abyss]

For anyone who doesn’t know, particularly in rivers in Florida, you are also likely to run into bull sharks.

[flame]

I’m born and raised in Florida and still to this day every time I drive past a lake/pond I look for gators and I always find one just chilling on the edge of the water or floating on top. It’s unsettling when I see people swimming or tubing in the lakes. Just a few months ago near my house a guy got mauled to death by gators by retreating his frisbee that landed in the lake.

[henricoshawty]

"Guys, I am not kidding...I just sh*t!" Even the gator was laughing. 🤣💯💖

[JBrotsis]

I used to live in Florida working for Gatorland. I remember all my coworkers telling me, if there’s a body of water larger than a puddle, there’s probably a gator in it. Love these dinosaurs.

[addanametocontinue]

Considering all the stories I've seen about gator attacks in Florida, I would not consider it to be overly-cautious to simply never go into an open body of water in Florida.

[BeyondHorizonts]

I love how this guy is poking it to come out but our boy is chilling and already locked in on target

[rustysalmonella]

I like how he pops his head up like “did you shit yourself?!”

[miguelmoronta]

As someone who’s recently moved to Florida, the best tip I can pass to others is: assume all bodies of water have something dangerous. Even the ones that flow behind some houses.

[mywestsideify]

“Clever Girl” -Robert Muldoon, Jurassic Park.

[Loregasmo]

I moved to Florida when I was 16 from NC, met a group of dudes who smoked weed on a little island hideout where you had to cross a river, my dumbass followed them across, spotted a gator and said “guys that’s a fuckin’ gator” and they looked at me and said “Yeah there were like 50 of them that you didn’t point out on the way across”. Never hung out with those guys again.

[seabirdjim]

I was alone in my 12 foot boat traversing the 100 miles of the Wilderness Waterway in Everglades National Park when I saw the most massive alligator I’ve ever seen in the 50 years that I’ve lived in Fla. It was like some dinosaur from the distant past. I was crossing Chevelier Bay on my way to Possum Key where I planned to camp when I saw the beast swimming not 25 yards from my boat. It was considerably larger than my boat. I’d estimate it to have been 18 feet and over 1, 000 pounds. It was quite a reptile.