Outback Hunters | show | 2012 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

A team of fearless Aussies wade through the menacing East, West and South Alligator Rivers of Australia's desolate Kakad | dHNfVXp4eUhUUHJNV1U

Transcript

00:00Music

00:09Our technique is simple and I'll just briefly go through it with you.

00:12It's a pile, it's a piece of cord line wrapped around a reel and it's a harpoon head.

00:18The harpoon head is basically a solid brass head with two straightened out fish hooks attached to it.

00:24It's attached to the line.

00:26The harpoon is driven into the neck of the crocodile under the spotlight at night.

00:29Crocodile hunting is primarily a night time activity.

00:32Catching crocs during the day is really not an option.

00:35They've got too much advantage.

00:36They'll see you and they'll just go.

00:38They've got that ability to hold their breath for a couple of hours under that water

00:41and you've just got no patience just kicks in from their behalf and not on my behalf.

00:46So night time activity it is and then we keep that spotlight on it until it can't see you

00:50and it dazzles the animal a bit.

00:52Bring him alongside the boat, tie him up.

00:55I got him!

00:57Holy hell this is a fighter!

01:01Some of the techniques we use to catch crocs, one of our main ones is obviously traps.

01:06These traps are proven to be very efficient.

01:09It's either a complete trap which is five metres long or a half trap which is two and a half metres long.

01:14But we also have a couple of smaller size traps when we're going for target animals.

01:19I'll use me hands up to six foot.

01:24If I need a six foot animal I'll grab him by the neck and then my main tool of capture over six foot is a harpoon.

01:33And the harpoon consists of a long pole.

01:37My pole is about ten to twelve foot long and it's made out of a special pine.

01:42And then I've got a little thing called a harpoon head or tata they call them in Aboriginal language.

01:49And what that is is it's three prongs.

01:54What happens when I harpoon the animal I usually go for the neck because that's the biggest muscle in the head area.

02:03And it's nice and easy, there's no damage and it will go in and the skin is very flexible.

02:10So what will happen when the harpoon hits the animal in the neck, he'll start reeling out the line.

02:17And usually they'll take all this without any problem whatsoever and that just slows him down.

02:24So you know it's not inhumane when you consider that some of the teeth that crocodiles have got are that round.

02:32or else this round.

02:35So you know when they've got sixty-eight of them munching into their neck or so,

02:39I don't think three of these are going to really worry them that much.