They have a license for harvesting of gators down South where I am. They draw lots, but if I want gator tail I just go out and take it. You can shoot it but there's a problem with that. Game wardens all over the place down there. They're brighter than they used to be and I just don't care to [expletive] with the law. You can always tell where they're gonna be or not gonna be, and the problem with a gun is the sound. So you set what's called a brush hook and a brush hook is where you find a limb that's going out over the water where gators are. The water can be deep or shallow it doesn't matter, and what you do is run a line from the limb down to the water, but not all the way to the water, and put a good piece of rotten meat on the end of it. They love things that are full of putrefaction, gators do. A gator'll eat anything he can get his mouth on, including each other, they're into cannibalism.
Harry Crews, in Daniel Halpern's Not for Bread Alone
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