One of the dog parks I go to is on Lake Tarpon, as well as a restaurant we go to every now and then. I've seen lots of gators from their deck, but never a crock.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/wildlife/long-rumored-crocodile-captured-in-lake-tarpon/2131063
Long-rumored crocodile captured in Lake Tarpon
By Matt McKinney, Times Staff Writer
Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:54pm
TARPON SPRINGS — Wanda Vekasi had been hearing stories about a crocodile in Lake Tarpon for almost a year. But that wasn't the first thing that came to mind when she saw a long, peculiar object floating behind her waterfront home Monday evening.
An alligator? Vekasi has seen "more than enough" gators after living in the area for 13 years. But this was different.
"He didn't look anything like a gator. He had big spikes sticking out of his tail. It just looked evil," she said. "When I saw its mouth open, I just knew I didn't want to go out looking for it."
What Vekasi saw floating in the big freshwater lake turned out to be a 700-pound, 11-foot-long American crocodile.
No other crocodile has been captured this far north, a wildlife official said, though one was photographed in northeast St. Petersburg in 2011.
Vekasi called a trapper she'd been working with recently to capture alligators near her home. It took Mike Amyx and three crew members more than four hours to capture the creature, Vekasi said.
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