Pelion, SC (WLTX) - A Midlands teenager spent Saturday night on a boat hunting of all things, alligators--and she came back with a big one.
Cammie Colin, 16, helped catch a gator that was 10 feet, five inches long and weighed 353 pounds.
Colin, who's from Pelion, was on a boat with family and friends in a swampy area near the town of Santee and caught the reptile.
The group used a fishing pole to both lure the gator and drag him close to their boat.
"I was very shocked when it got to the boat that it was that size," Colin says.
Colin then used a crossbow to shoot the gator. She and four others then taped the alligators mouth shut and took it back to land.
The junior varsity cheerleader at White Knoll High School has been on deer hunts with her father, but this was her first time alligator hunting.
In South Carolina, 16-year-olds can sign up to register to hunt gators, and Colin had done that earlier this year.
9/15/2009 9:52:22 AM
