According to Wikipedia, and the open-source encyclopedia cites alligatorfur.com, the largest alligator ever was shot dead on Marsh Island, Louisiana and it was 19 feet 2 inches (5.84 meters).Unfortunately, there’s no photo of the beast. The largest alligator on record measured 19 feet 2 inches and was caught in Louisiana in the early 1900's. The State of Louisiana administers an alligator program in which ranchers collect over 350,000 alligator eggs, trappers harvest over 28,000 wild alligators and farmers harvest over 250,000 farm raised alligators annually. The Louisiana Alligator – 19 feet 2 inches (5.84 meters)? Males typically grow between 10 and 12 feet. The biggest alligator gar ever recorded was tangled in a net and hauled in by a Mississippi commercial fisherman. Raw meat and hide values are estimated at over $10 million for the wild harvest, and over $40 million for the farm harvest annually. The Louisiana Alligator – 19 feet 2 inches (5.84 meters)? By Leah Asmelash, CNN. ... World Record Alligator Gar Pulled From … Females typically grow between 8 and 10 feet. It was 19 feet, two inches long and estimated to weigh over 2000 pounds. The largest American alligator ever caught – which broke a world record – can now be viewed in an Alabama museum. His massive gator did not make the record books for length, but the weight of the beast is worth noting. Louisiana has the highest population of alligators in the United States, and it is least surprising that the largest alligator ever recorded was also found in this state. This 14-foot alligator may be the biggest one ever caught in Georgia. An alligator measuring 19 ft. 2 in. The largest alligator ever killed was in 1890 in Marsh Island, Louisiana. Measuring 15 feet long and weighing in at a staggering 1,011.5 lbs, this giant alligator was pulled out of a river in Alabama on Saturday morning, becoming the largest ever caught. Florida airline pilot Jim Howard caught a 12-foot, 1,000-pound alligator on Lake Okeechobee in South Florida. Measuring 15 feet long and weighing in at a staggering 1,011.5 lbs, this giant alligator was pulled out of a river in Alabama on Saturday morning, becoming the largest ever caught. may seem too good to be true, but then, some truths are quite incredible in themselves. Stephens caught the alligator with a baited hook, which took an hour and a half, and then it took two hours for him to rope it in and get it in the right position to kill it with a 6-foot pole. Chat with … Florida might be associated with alligators but it's actually Louisiana with the largest concentration of gators, with a bit over 2 million. The longest alligator ever caught in Louisiana history was 19'2". The mammoth beast, which measured 15 feet and 9 inches long and weighed 1,011.5 pounds, was captured last August by five members of the Stokes family in Mill Creek, Al.com reported. According to Wikipedia, and the open-source encyclopedia cites alligatorfur.com, the largest alligator ever was shot dead on Marsh Island, Louisiana and it was 19 feet 2 inches (5.84 meters).Unfortunately, there’s no photo of the beast. Updated 1:37 PM ET, Sun September 8, 2019 . You can chalk that up to a number of things, but Louisiana is about 18 percent water, mostly shallow bayous.Alligators seem to like those marshes, with all the food sitting right there in a nice small space, and it lends itself to some enormous growth.