New state record set for longest female alligator

There’s a new state record for the longest female alligator taken in Mississippi.

Jim and Richie Denson of Madison killed the gator on Sunday on the Pearl River. It measured 10’2” long.

Ricky Flynt, the alligator program coordinator at MDWFP says this state record also ties a previous world record for the longest free-ranging wild female gator, which was measured in Florida in1984.

Additionally, the alligator had been previously tagged in 2009.