hogdogs is right on both counts.
Louann does have shoes, it's just that the picture without shoes was right after she got out of the lake.....
And as to the fact we catch a lot of big ones. It is exactly as HD says, we have the great luxury of not HAVING TO GO at a specific time because we have a client and we spend A LOT of time on the water the rest of the year, always with a eye open as to where SPICIFIC big gators live.
We don't have any "secrets" ( Actually a couple of small ones....) just more time on the water year in and year out......and we've been at it near on 20 years.
Last thing......just in case you get the idea this is all fun and games....Richard and I ( Richard helps me clean gators, both ours and contract for other hunters. ) spent about 4 hours getting him skinned and boned and another 2 scraping and salting the hide and defatting the meat.
Did end up with 198# of meat along with 62 pounds or ribs and 72 pounds of legs.......332# of sellable eating products for the market.