and his deckhand Aaron Lee have set 60 lines

in a promising new area, and they're counting on catching

a boatload of monsters.

[dramatic music]

BROCK: Oh my god.

NARRATOR: But it turns out Mother Nature has other ideas.

I mean, every single bait we've

got that's down I promise you is going to be

knocked down by these lilies.

NARRATOR: Overnight, a wall of lilies

has clogged the entire canal.

A more seasoned skipper may have seen this coming.

BROCK: It looks like straight land.

Dude, them lilies came out of nowhere.

NARRATOR: Untethered by roots, huge swaths of floating lilies

ride the wind and can choke up a bayou without warning, wreaking

havoc on alligator hunters.

The lilies, they move in.

They knock the bait off the lines.

And man, that's just killing us.

Regardless of the circumstances, we have to get alligators,

and we have to get big alligators in the boat.

So we need to figure something else out to boost our luck.

Do you think an alligator's playing in that?

No.

You can't do nothing with that.

I don't know.

We could try sniping open water.

We could do treble hooking.

But we got to move to a different canal.

Yeah.

BROCK Hey, man, let's just pack it up.

And let's just go to the next spot.

NARRATOR: Hoping to salvage the day,

Brock decides to move to an area they've

never hunted using tactics they've never tried before--

sniping on open water.

BROCK: Hey, slow down.

When it comes to sniping, it's just not easy.

You've got a small bullet trying to hit

a quarter-sized kill spot.

And you know, there's just so many variables.

Everything has to go perfect in order to snipe a gator.

Hey, we got one.

Dude, look at that alligator.

Look at that alligator.

Oh my god, dude.

Hey, I'mma get on the right side of the canal.

So if he starts going down, you'll be right over his head.

BROCK: Oh my god-- the size of that alligator.

[gunshot]

Damn!

AARON: Go, go, go, go, go.

[gunshot] - Damn!

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

[suspenseful music]

AARON: He's going.

BROCK: I just don't understand.

That was a good-ass shot.

AARON: You're wrong about this one, chief.

You missed.

We shot over him.

Whenever you have a big gator taken from you like that,

it's a big slap in the face.

But it's also, you know, motivation to do better.

It's a tough pill to swallow.

NARRATOR: The young hunters' inexperience

let the gators slip away.

Now they're determined to find him.

BROCK: Just chill.

Just chill.

He goes down, I'mma grab the treble hook.

And I'mma snag him.

If he goes down, start the boat.

[engine starting]

Keep straight.

Keep straight-- right there.

Just go slow.

Hey, you go on the left side of the bubbles.

I'll go on the right.

Aw, come on, baby!

Woo!

He's burning my-- he's burning my hand.

[grunts] AARON: Where's he at?

Where's he at? Where's he at?

BROCK: [grunts]

Treble hook down there.

Just try and get him.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Got him?

AARON: I just stuck him too.

Hurry up.

He's going back to his little camp.

BROCK: Where's he going?

AARON: He came up.

He came up for air.

Go straight. Go straight.

Go straight. Go straight.

All right, all right, all right, all right.

He's on the bottom right.

He's on the bottom.

[splashing]

[suspenseful music]

BROCK: Oh, yeah, baby!

Yeah!

AARON: I got him.

I got him.

Get the gun. Get the gun.

Get the gun. Get the gun.

It's right here. Hurry up.

Hurry up. Hurry up.

Hurry up.

Hurry up. Watch out.

Watch out. Watch out.

Watch out.

Watch out.

[gunshot]

BROCK: Woo!

That's what I'm talking about.

That's what I'm talking about.

BROCK Hey!

I think we did pretty good.

You know, morning started off real slow.

But we kept our heads high and got us a real big alligator

at the end of the day.

You know, I'm super happy about it.

Ready?

BROCK: Oh.

It's such a sense of accomplishment.

You know, a bunch of 19-year-olds never treble

hooking before to come out here and land

a big boy like this annd in the fashion that we did, it was--

man, it was fun.

It was real fun.

AARON: Found my new favorite way to catch alligators.