Name: Theo Interviews Man Who Caught 800 Pound Gator in Mississippi
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Interviews Man Who Caught 800 Pound Gator in Mississippi' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-08. Transcript available.

all right we got a call that came in right here uh from one of these gator
babies right here and
these these men have been dealing with prehistoria and i want to talk to a man
who captured one of
them down there in uh mississippi over there and they just captured a 800 pound
uh alligator can you imagine that can you imagine your wife thinks you're
cheating on her
and you show up and you just your arms you got lacerations all over
um yeah let's get to the call uh joey clark i believe is the man joey hey what's
going on theo
how you doing man what's up boss i see you got that old miss shirt on for
yourself yes indeed man if i'm
coming on a uh an lsu boys uh podcast i gotta gotta represent right we'll call
it a truce for a little
while baby how about that man there you go for about three or four weeks and it's
back on okay
deal man i'm turning into a ut fan too here in uh in tennessee um joey tell me
about this gator baby
you guys caught that gator huh yeah man um this uh went with three of my
buddies out there uh we were
in outside of yazoo city and um oh yeah that's where um uh jerry clowers from
yazoo city mississippi
that's exactly right that's exactly right uh went out there in yazoo city and
we've been to this spot
you know over the years i think this is probably the fourth or fifth gator i've
caught with these guys
something like that um so we've been to that spot several times and y'all are gator
buddies huh
that's right that's right i've been with these fellows a few times and they've
been several years
without me as well um and so you get out there you guys get out there you're in
a what kind of vessel
are you guys in not a submarine or anything huh no we're in a 14 foot john boat
dang boy i know we
brought this thing in the uh that's some tom sawyer water work right there
buddy that's right that's
right that that gator was about a about a foot hanging off of that boat while
we were trying to
get back in at night and so what do you hook him on what when you are are you
aiming for this type
of big gate or are you aiming what are you trying to catch are you guys looking
for flounder what are
you guys trying to catch out there yeah when you're out there you're i mean in
this area we've we've
hooked up and caught you know several you know 12 12 and a half foot gators out
there and that's
really what we're looking for you know we don't you know in mississippi the
cool thing about here is
it's not like louisiana it's not commercial they only give out about 900 tags a
year so we got
drawn in the lottery so you want to make it count right you want to make your gator
count you don't
want to come in there with a little nine foot gator if you don't have to but uh
you know nothing against
that just we've done that before right so so we it's probably embarrassing i
guess if four men get out
of a boat with a little baby gator that looks probably yeah i mean we've uh
that's casual looking
we we saw this gator uh just as we were putting in right before dark and we had
no idea it was this
big so we we hopped in the boat went out there and um you know we must have
passed 20 to 25 30 gators
on the way out there and they all look great and it's just a swamp full of alligators
out there but
and how do you can you tell like because the eyes are usually poking out of the
water can you tell how
big a gator is even just by its eyes poking out you can tell even when you get
you know you're far
away from one you can tell if he's undersized and it's something you don't want
to fool with
yeah but uh you know you're out there at night it's it's pitch black there's
they got to pump
sunshine out there to that part of the part of the state and you know you're
out there in that in that
stuff and you got a q beam and uh you're just trying to light those eyes up and
and go from there
and does the beam shock the gator at all does it kind of get like a um like a
does it does it have
that deer and headlights effect on a gator or what is that like it's not too
much going to shock him
when he's when he feels the vibrations in the water of your of your boat and
your trolling motor and all
that that's what's going to make him kind of kind of duck and start trying to
get away from you and and
you know he held his breath it seemed like 30 to 45 minutes at a time a couple
times and
we just had to keep on searching him and um you know we hooked up to him the
first time and what are you
hooking him on are you hooking him on a spinner bait what do you got i mean
what do you even put out there
yeah so it's just a treble hook what are you guys using are you guys using
chicken livers like what
do you use it what's the bait no there's no bait whatsoever oh there's no no
bait whatsoever you're
out there you know you've got to see this gator and then you've got to be
talented enough to be able
to throw a uh just to throw that treble hook but that line right where you want
to do it okay so you're
not so there's no bait in there there's you're not trying to get them to get
something like a fish or
it is more you are just trying to get the hook into his body that's right that's
right you're
trying to get the hook in his body and you know eventually we kept on trying to
hit him with one
one line at a time and we did that but he kept breaking off and what these gators
do um we must
have we we probably hooked up on him seven or eight times i guess and he kept
on you know shaking that
that treble hook out of him but what they're trying to do is go under logs and
things like that and and
shake that that hook out of them and then they're free um and so that's that's
kind of what the the
gist is there and do they seem nasty like did this gator seem like a nasty guy
or what did he say like
can you get any a semblance of what their personality is like did he seem like
a nasty guy
yeah man he was uh he wasn't the meatest gator we've ever run across we've run
across some meaner
ones but he was very territorial you know he did the you know the weird thing
is we've hooked up on
some good size gators in the past and you know you hook them once or twice and
now they kind of get
the gist of what's going on you're trying to kill them and they disappear you'll
never see them again
but this gator he wouldn't do that uh he was there in that area you know he's
just uh he's probably a
hoarder have you seen that show like my 700 pound life or something that
because that those people don't
not you know they're usually locked in their house with magazine you know they
have like stacks of
magazines and everything that's right that's right this thing is over there and
yeah he's in his spot
and he's not trying to get out of it he's uh he's doing his thing and uh like i
say he never left he
never left the 200 yard radius for us and that's just crazy to me that it
happened like that because
we hooked into him the first time about 9 30 at night we didn't have that thing
in the boat
until 3 30 in the morning my god and so you hook him you start getting him
now how close is the boat are you just right next to him yeah you are so you
know i'd say when you
hook up on him initially you know you're probably within 15 feet of the gator
probably so i wouldn't
be there buddy i'd call a damn uber buddy i would not be right there i'll be
glad to send you a couple
little videos we took on the boat so you can kind of see for yourself on this
uh if that'd be something
that would help kind of put it together for you we'd love that we'll play some
of those side by
side while we're talking about it okay so you get him you you have how many
hooks do you eventually
get into the gator finally at the end we did get a second hook in him we had
one the first hook
we call it which is not where you want to catch him would be uh back at the
tail and that's that's
where my buddy don he he blind cast out over him hooked him in the tail we
fought him for about 30
minutes we could get a second hook in him damn you know and so kind of my job
with all this is when
i'm in the boat you know we've got a snare or whatever and my job is once he's
come up for water
what do you mean a snare yeah so it's like a drum no not a drum it's uh it's
kind of like a i i
caught almost like a noose right i mean it's you you've got a rope on the end
of it you slip it over
his head and then when you do it i just pull that rope as hard as i can and
basically try to sit down
on the bottom of the boat until uh so this is some damn bdsm it sounds like
coming yes indeed yes indeed
wow there's it's so it's crazy we wound up it got him at 14 feet uh three
inches so it as of today
we've got still got 24 hours left in the instead of mississippi for gator
hunting season but as of
today it's the state record wow and how much weight was it 802.5 pounds damn
boy and that missed that
missed the uh state record by 20 pounds so that just tells you how big they are
down here oh so it
didn't even make the weight record but it made the length record that's right
that's exactly right
that's incredible man it is it is so once you have both of those hooks how are
you elevating
it out of the water what's like how does your boat not capsize yeah so you know
what he's doing when
he's down there underwater he's he's you know he's fighting and he's down there
and he's been down there
there you know at this point you know over that seven hour period he had been
in that water uh you know
underwater the majority of that time but they got to come up for air right they
got it they at some point
they can't stay underwater forever they got to come up so when they do you got
to think about it as
you're you know these guys with the two lines are pulling him closer and closer
to the boat
um as they continue to fight him and he continues to come up for air a little
bit more frequently
towards the end and that's you know when it gets close enough to the boat
within you know i'd say
two or three feet if you can and that's when you want to put that that snare
around him and and
hook him from there and kind of finish the deal off and do you choke him out
does somebody get on
him how do you finish him man i'm trying like hell to choke him out i'm like i'm
just holding him as
tight as i can until somebody can shoot him oh yeah yeah you got to shoot him
oh damn that's right
this is a damn robbery bro yes it is it's a it's a mugging for sure it is i
thought y'all were just
toeing him in no no no no you got to put that bad boy in the post the last
thing you want to do is
toe him in and and then you lose him or something because once if you were to
break off a rope or
something he's at the bottom of the river you're not getting him back you know
and when he went after
he's right when he dies do y'all hug or what do people like is there a
celebration what is that moment
like man it's just a sense of relief you've been out there with him all night
long and the last thing you
want to do is let him off the hook look we had been out there for so long we
were all just getting
tired and worn out we've been all day all four of us just you know doing our
thing and nobody wanted
to give up and we all thought about it but at the end of the night you know my
buddy tanner the entire
time uh he was like we're not letting this gator go we're just not going to do
it so he was he was
hell-bent on getting this gator in the boat oh every tanner i know will get
hell-bent they get hell-bent
on all kind of you put a couple beers in them were you guys having a couple
beers no there's
no drinking out there there's no drinking it's a little bit too unsafe for that
we tried to be as
legal as we could with getting this gator in and out and thank god we did
because now you know i mean
immediately when we pulled it out obviously the state wildlife department gets
called they got to come
measure it and confirm it and but no no party and the partying was after i
guess uh you know over the
over the last 10 days just trying to uh let all this stuff sink in man it's it's
grown and blown up
beyond our wildest expectations man man that's exciting brother yeah and do y'all
name him or
anything is there any uh is there anything like that do you all bury him what's
the what happens
is there any things that happen like that no so we don't i don't we haven't
named him i wish we would
have i wish you kind of brought something up maybe we should do that um but the
uh with the meat we've
donated the meat to a uh to an organization there in yazoo city they kind of
just you know divvy that meat out
um so you know orphans probably things like that yeah they came out to like 380
pounds of meat so
it was a ton of meat on that and yeah i remember they had an orphanage by us
and they would always
whenever people would cut uh that a lot of donated meat would go over there and
sometimes i had a
buddy that was over there and we'd go over there and eat and they'd always be
eating gator up in that
bitch it's kind of wild to think oh it's crazy you go in there and you see 20
freaking orphans bruh
no i don't yum and yum and down on some gator it's just like damn man get them
some gator sausage
and then let them have a weekend you know oh yeah if they don't have parents
dude get them some
decent meat that's what i think everybody deserves something exactly but yeah
man it's uh that that was
you know kind of the gist of the of the gator itself and um you know i guess
with this hide we're
gonna get some leather boots made we're gonna be looking sharp come uh come
christmas time i guess
we'll see what's up but uh that's the plan well praise brother thank you so
much for just jumping
on and and filling us in on some information it's really fascinating and
congratulations on the state
record man that's amazing well i appreciate it man it's very nice talking to
you and uh like i said
it's been a wild ride and um i'll send you those videos so you can check that
out and kind of see
put this into perspective what it's like out there in the pitch black of night
yeah brother please do also just great to talk to somebody um from over there
near yazoo
city mississippi the home of jerry clower my favorite comedian so uh thank you
so much joey
clark we appreciate you brother thank you man nice talking to you all right
cheers buddy have a good one
take care
Thank you.

Theo Interviews Man Who Caught 800 Pound Gator in Mississippi

all right we got a call that came in right here uh from one of these gator
babies right here and
these these men have been dealing with prehistoria and i want to talk to a man
who captured one of
them down there in uh mississippi over there and they just captured a 800 pound
uh alligator can you imagine that can you imagine your wife thinks you're
cheating on her
and you show up and you just your arms you got lacerations all over
um yeah let's get to the call uh joey clark i believe is the man joey hey what's
going on theo
how you doing man what's up boss i see you got that old miss shirt on for
yourself yes indeed man if i'm
coming on a uh an lsu boys uh podcast i gotta gotta represent right we'll call
it a truce for a little
while baby how about that man there you go for about three or four weeks and it's
back on okay
deal man i'm turning into a ut fan too here in uh in tennessee um joey tell me
about this gator baby
you guys caught that gator huh yeah man um this uh went with three of my
buddies out there uh we were
in outside of yazoo city and um oh yeah that's where um uh jerry clowers from
yazoo city mississippi
that's exactly right that's exactly right uh went out there in yazoo city and
we've been to this spot
you know over the years i think this is probably the fourth or fifth gator i've
caught with these guys
something like that um so we've been to that spot several times and y'all are gator
buddies huh
that's right that's right i've been with these fellows a few times and they've
been several years
without me as well um and so you get out there you guys get out there you're in
a what kind of vessel
are you guys in not a submarine or anything huh no we're in a 14 foot john boat
dang boy i know we
brought this thing in the uh that's some tom sawyer water work right there
buddy that's right that's
right that that gator was about a about a foot hanging off of that boat while
we were trying to
get back in at night and so what do you hook him on what when you are are you
aiming for this type
of big gate or are you aiming what are you trying to catch are you guys looking
for flounder what are
you guys trying to catch out there yeah when you're out there you're i mean in
this area we've we've
hooked up and caught you know several you know 12 12 and a half foot gators out
there and that's
really what we're looking for you know we don't you know in mississippi the
cool thing about here is
it's not like louisiana it's not commercial they only give out about 900 tags a
year so we got
drawn in the lottery so you want to make it count right you want to make your gator
count you don't
want to come in there with a little nine foot gator if you don't have to but uh
you know nothing against
that just we've done that before right so so we it's probably embarrassing i
guess if four men get out
of a boat with a little baby gator that looks probably yeah i mean we've uh
that's casual looking
we we saw this gator uh just as we were putting in right before dark and we had
no idea it was this
big so we we hopped in the boat went out there and um you know we must have
passed 20 to 25 30 gators
on the way out there and they all look great and it's just a swamp full of alligators
out there but
and how do you can you tell like because the eyes are usually poking out of the
water can you tell how
big a gator is even just by its eyes poking out you can tell even when you get
you know you're far
away from one you can tell if he's undersized and it's something you don't want
to fool with
yeah but uh you know you're out there at night it's it's pitch black there's
they got to pump
sunshine out there to that part of the part of the state and you know you're
out there in that in that
stuff and you got a q beam and uh you're just trying to light those eyes up and
and go from there
and does the beam shock the gator at all does it kind of get like a um like a
does it does it have
that deer and headlights effect on a gator or what is that like it's not too
much going to shock him
when he's when he feels the vibrations in the water of your of your boat and
your trolling motor and all
that that's what's going to make him kind of kind of duck and start trying to
get away from you and and
you know he held his breath it seemed like 30 to 45 minutes at a time a couple
times and
we just had to keep on searching him and um you know we hooked up to him the
first time and what are you
hooking him on are you hooking him on a spinner bait what do you got i mean
what do you even put out there
yeah so it's just a treble hook what are you guys using are you guys using
chicken livers like what
do you use it what's the bait no there's no bait whatsoever oh there's no no
bait whatsoever you're
out there you know you've got to see this gator and then you've got to be
talented enough to be able
to throw a uh just to throw that treble hook but that line right where you want
to do it okay so you're
not so there's no bait in there there's you're not trying to get them to get
something like a fish or
it is more you are just trying to get the hook into his body that's right that's
right you're
trying to get the hook in his body and you know eventually we kept on trying to
hit him with one
one line at a time and we did that but he kept breaking off and what these gators
do um we must
have we we probably hooked up on him seven or eight times i guess and he kept
on you know shaking that
that treble hook out of him but what they're trying to do is go under logs and
things like that and and
shake that that hook out of them and then they're free um and so that's that's
kind of what the the
gist is there and do they seem nasty like did this gator seem like a nasty guy
or what did he say like
can you get any a semblance of what their personality is like did he seem like
a nasty guy
yeah man he was uh he wasn't the meatest gator we've ever run across we've run
across some meaner
ones but he was very territorial you know he did the you know the weird thing
is we've hooked up on
some good size gators in the past and you know you hook them once or twice and
now they kind of get
the gist of what's going on you're trying to kill them and they disappear you'll
never see them again
but this gator he wouldn't do that uh he was there in that area you know he's
just uh he's probably a
hoarder have you seen that show like my 700 pound life or something that
because that those people don't
not you know they're usually locked in their house with magazine you know they
have like stacks of
magazines and everything that's right that's right this thing is over there and
yeah he's in his spot
and he's not trying to get out of it he's uh he's doing his thing and uh like i
say he never left he
never left the 200 yard radius for us and that's just crazy to me that it
happened like that because
we hooked into him the first time about 9 30 at night we didn't have that thing
in the boat
until 3 30 in the morning my god and so you hook him you start getting him
now how close is the boat are you just right next to him yeah you are so you
know i'd say when you
hook up on him initially you know you're probably within 15 feet of the gator
probably so i wouldn't
be there buddy i'd call a damn uber buddy i would not be right there i'll be
glad to send you a couple
little videos we took on the boat so you can kind of see for yourself on this
uh if that'd be something
that would help kind of put it together for you we'd love that we'll play some
of those side by
side while we're talking about it okay so you get him you you have how many
hooks do you eventually
get into the gator finally at the end we did get a second hook in him we had
one the first hook
we call it which is not where you want to catch him would be uh back at the
tail and that's that's
where my buddy don he he blind cast out over him hooked him in the tail we
fought him for about 30
minutes we could get a second hook in him damn you know and so kind of my job
with all this is when
i'm in the boat you know we've got a snare or whatever and my job is once he's
come up for water
what do you mean a snare yeah so it's like a drum no not a drum it's uh it's
kind of like a i i
caught almost like a noose right i mean it's you you've got a rope on the end
of it you slip it over
his head and then when you do it i just pull that rope as hard as i can and
basically try to sit down
on the bottom of the boat until uh so this is some damn bdsm it sounds like
coming yes indeed yes indeed
wow there's it's so it's crazy we wound up it got him at 14 feet uh three
inches so it as of today
we've got still got 24 hours left in the instead of mississippi for gator
hunting season but as of
today it's the state record wow and how much weight was it 802.5 pounds damn
boy and that missed that
missed the uh state record by 20 pounds so that just tells you how big they are
down here oh so it
didn't even make the weight record but it made the length record that's right
that's exactly right
that's incredible man it is it is so once you have both of those hooks how are
you elevating
it out of the water what's like how does your boat not capsize yeah so you know
what he's doing when
he's down there underwater he's he's you know he's fighting and he's down there
and he's been down there
there you know at this point you know over that seven hour period he had been
in that water uh you know
underwater the majority of that time but they got to come up for air right they
got it they at some point
they can't stay underwater forever they got to come up so when they do you got
to think about it as
you're you know these guys with the two lines are pulling him closer and closer
to the boat
um as they continue to fight him and he continues to come up for air a little
bit more frequently
towards the end and that's you know when it gets close enough to the boat
within you know i'd say
two or three feet if you can and that's when you want to put that that snare
around him and and
hook him from there and kind of finish the deal off and do you choke him out
does somebody get on
him how do you finish him man i'm trying like hell to choke him out i'm like i'm
just holding him as
tight as i can until somebody can shoot him oh yeah yeah you got to shoot him
oh damn that's right
this is a damn robbery bro yes it is it's a it's a mugging for sure it is i
thought y'all were just
toeing him in no no no no you got to put that bad boy in the post the last
thing you want to do is
toe him in and and then you lose him or something because once if you were to
break off a rope or
something he's at the bottom of the river you're not getting him back you know
and when he went after
he's right when he dies do y'all hug or what do people like is there a
celebration what is that moment
like man it's just a sense of relief you've been out there with him all night
long and the last thing you
want to do is let him off the hook look we had been out there for so long we
were all just getting
tired and worn out we've been all day all four of us just you know doing our
thing and nobody wanted
to give up and we all thought about it but at the end of the night you know my
buddy tanner the entire
time uh he was like we're not letting this gator go we're just not going to do
it so he was he was
hell-bent on getting this gator in the boat oh every tanner i know will get
hell-bent they get hell-bent
on all kind of you put a couple beers in them were you guys having a couple
beers no there's
no drinking out there there's no drinking it's a little bit too unsafe for that
we tried to be as
legal as we could with getting this gator in and out and thank god we did
because now you know i mean
immediately when we pulled it out obviously the state wildlife department gets
called they got to come
measure it and confirm it and but no no party and the partying was after i
guess uh you know over the
over the last 10 days just trying to uh let all this stuff sink in man it's it's
grown and b