{"id":830385,"date":"2026-08-30T02:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:12:12","slug":"12-foot-mississippi-river-gator-caught-now-who-wants-to-go-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830385\/","title":{"rendered":"12-foot Mississippi River gator caught \u2014 now, who wants to go swimming?"},"content":{"rendered":"

12-foot Mississippi River gator caught \u2014 now, who wants to go swimming?<\/p>\n

\"Tiara, Miss. \u2014<\/p>\n

Alligator hunting season is off to a massive start in Mississippi \u2014 and this catch is enough to make you think twice before jumping into the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n

According to the Vicksburg Daily News, Jonathan Wimberley and his friends had an impressive first night of hunting, catching a 12-foot, 4-inch alligator in the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n

For hunters targeting alligators on Mississippi’s public waterways, the season is a short one. It begins at noon on the last Friday in August and runs through noon the following Monday, 10 days later.<\/p>\n

That means hunters have a limited window to go after some of Mississippi’s biggest reptiles.<\/p>\n

And Wimberley and his friends wasted no time.<\/p>\n

The 12-foot, 4-inch gator is a massive catch and a reminder of what could be lurking beneath the surface of the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n

For anyone who has ever looked at the river and thought, “I could probably swim in that,” this might be the picture that changes your mind.<\/p>\n

Mississippi’s alligator hunting season is regulated by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, and hunters must follow state rules regarding permits, hunting areas and legal methods.<\/p>\n

For Wimberley and his friends, opening night delivered a catch they likely won’t forget anytime soon.<\/p>\n

For the rest of us, it may be another reason to keep our swimming adventures somewhere a little less… toothy.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Jonathan Wimberley and his friends on the massive catch.<\/p>\n

This information was reported by the Vicksburg Daily News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"12-foot Mississippi River gator caught \u2014 now, who wants to go swimming? , Miss. \u2014 Alligator hunting season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-830385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}