Another state record set during the recent gator season on Ross Barnett Reservoir.  John Ratcliff (center) captained the team of six that caught the largest gator, 13 feet, 571 pounds.

Biologist, Ricky Flynt, estimated the age of the 571 lb. gator at 40-plus.  That means that alligator was swimming the Pearl River before the reservoir was impounded in 1965.