JACKSON, Miss. (WABG) – A hunting party in Mississippi pulled in a monster this gator season.

First-time alligator hunter Aubrey Westerfield led the team that caught the 12-foot-long alligator that weighed 628 pounds.

“When I seen his foot and his foot was bigger than my hand, I knew,” he said. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh my God.’ And then we seen his head. And when we seen his head I was like, ‘Whoa.’”

Westerfield was with his wife and another group of men when they caught the alligator in the Yazoo River.

Westerfield said it took a team effort to bring the beast in.

“I threw my hook over him, hook him to the side, and when I hook him to the side he just took off and I knew right then he was the biggest thing we’ve ever seen,” he said. “He put up a battle for about 40 minutes, but we fi

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