'We're gonna need a bigger boat': Gator hunters break TWO state records with monster catches on the same day including a 727lb reptile hauled in by a UPS worker<br /> <br /> Within a few hours of alligator hunting season opening, the record for the heaviest and longest reptiles to be caught in Mississippi had been set and broken several times.<br /> The first record was set early on Sunday, with a 10ft reptile, weighing 295.3lb, which took the heaviest and longest titles for a female alligator.<br /> Just a few hours later however, first-time hunter Beth Trammell, of Madison, helped haul in a 723.5lb male alligator. Her catch broke the state record, but only for a few hours.<br /> Later in the day UPS worker Dustin Bockman was part of a three-man team who caught a 13ft long, 727lb beast from the Mississippi. <br /> 'We're going to cook it for sure,' he told Gulf Live. 'There's plenty for me and everybody else.'<br /> Alligators had nearly been hunted to extinction in Mississippi in the 1960s but a successful conservation program now means the state needs controlled hunting of the reptiles. <br /> It offers permits to a select number of people each year, who are able to hunt in public waters from August 30 to September 9.<br /> It took Mr Bockman, his brother and a friend, nearly 12 hours to catch the huge gator. <br /> After two hours of trailing it, they got close enough to shoot it with a crossbow, which is where the fight between man and beast began, the Clarion-Ledger reported. <br /> 'He would go to the bottom and sit like a log. You couldn't do nothing with him,' Mr Bockman said. <br /> Compared to what came next, reeling the 727lb beast in was nothing.  <br /> <br /> After it was dead, the hunters were faced with the dilemma of how to get the carcass in their boat. 
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