About Twigg's Gator Outfitter
Twigg's Gator Outfitter aims to help local and out-of-state alligator hunters fill their tags without gouging out their wallets.
Other public land outfitters might charge you incredibly expensive trophy fees depending on the length of the alligators you harvest, but our owner and head Captain feels this is unfair and limits the enjoyment of a hunt when constantly worried about how much a bigger gator will cost just to shoot!
If you hunt on private land, where the alligators are trapped on a specific property and are fed constantly, I understand outfitters wanting to charge trophy fees...but on public waters with wild alligators?! Unfair.
Twigg's Gator offers a flat rate for 8 hours of public water hunting, and infinite customization and al a carte services after the alligator is harvested.
The extra cost comes after the hunt when you and your family/friends decide what you want done with your harvest. If you only want 10 lbs of meat to take home, we will process it for you at a marginal cost.
If you want to have your alligators completely processed, skinned, head mounted, claw key chains, the whole nine yards, then it'll cost you a bit more than just processing 10 lbs of meat; and we offer fair pricing.
If you want to hunt alligators on public waters, save money, and have fun, call Twigg's Gator Outfitter!!
About the Owner
Haley Terwilliger, aka Captain Twigg, has been hunting and working with alligators for many years, and dreaming about them since she was a little girl watching Crocodile Hunter on VHS.
Born and raised in Florida, she has always loved seeing alligators in neighborhood ponds, at the zoo, and on the many trails and board walks that Florida state parks provide.
From hunting them, skinning them, cleaning the skulls for euro mounts, to cooking their delicious meat; Captain Twigg loves every part of Alligator Hunting.
The start of her passion was not all butterflies and rainbows, though.
Captain Twigg's Inspiration for change
One random day in college, Captain Twigg thought to herself, "How cool, and how Floridian, would it be to hunt an alligator, and then make my own purse out of the skin?"
Her first hunt ever was on private land, and she expected the hunt to be out on the everglades, hunting from a boat and using a bang stick for the first time on a wild alligator. However, she was severely mistaken. The property had high fences, a bunch of ponds in one small area, and hundreds of gators in these small ponds. The owners feed the alligators pellets, like dog food, to keep them fed in the property.
Not knowing any better, Captain Twigg followed the guide over to a pond where he instructed her to cast over an alligator about 10 feet long, and once it was hooked in its side, he told her this alligator would cost $3,000 just to shoot. So, again not knowing any better, she went through with it, the guide had her shoot the gator 3 times with an AR-15 that had no sights on it.
The whole hunt lasted 45 minutes.
The ten foot alligator was skinny, she could see its shoulder blades. The guide told her then that they are part of the nuisance alligator program, so when they catch alligators out of subdivision ponds, they bring them back to their property to put in their ponds, and charge people to execute them.
Ever since that first hunt, Captain Twigg has vowed to herself never to sugar-coat the unfair nature of her first alligator hunting experience.
Not only was it $3000 just to shoot the gator, additionally it cost a lot to get the skin tanned and the head preserved, something that wasn't clear going into the hunt.
The company also processed the gator only yielding about 30 pounds of meat, which Captain Twigg has learned through her own public hunts and processing her own alligators, that it is a low number from a 10 foot alligator.