An 11-year-old girl from Southeast Texas is drawing attention after bagging an 8.5-foot, 300-pound alligator during a family hunting trip earlier this week.

Jocelyn Roberts, a middle schooler from the Town of Cleveland landed the massive reptile while hunting with her father, Trey Roberts, and her 15-year-old brother on a friend's ranch in Rye, near Houston, according to a Facebook post Trey Roberts made Monday.

The family used raw chicken on a large fishing hook as bait, Trey Roberts told Liberty County local news website Bluebonnet News .

Jocelyn Roberts said she spotted about 40 alligators before deciding where to set the hook. When one finally took the bait, she let her father and brother pull it from the water before she stepped in to finish the hunt.

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