Gone fishin’! 
 
 Two Florida hunters say they’ve caught the largest alligator they’ve ever found: nearly 15 feet long and 800 pounds. 
 
 Lee Lightsey, the owner of Outwest Farms in Okeechobee, and guide Blake Godwin were hunting over the weekend when they discovered the gator in one of their cattle ponds, Godwin told Fox 13. 
 
 The two men saw the gator from about 20 feet away, at which point Lightsey shot it as it came out of the water. 
 
 They used a farm tractor to pull it to shore. 
 
 “We also discovered the remains what we determined to be cattle in the water,” Godwin said. 
 
 “We determined that he was in fact attacking our livestock as they came to drink.” 
 
 Outwest Farms plans to donate the alligator’s meat to charity and stuff the rest of the animal to display at hunting shows. 
 
 “It is hard to believe that something this big exists in the wild,” Godwin told the TV station. 
 
 “Hunting is a way of life for us and we are very proud of it.” ||||| - Two hunters at a Florida farm say it's the largest alligator they've ever captured in the wild: nearly 15 feet long. 
 
 Lee Lightsey, the owner of Outwest Farms in Okeechobee, and hunting guide, Blake Godwin, discovered the monster alligator in one their cattle ponds while on a guided hunt on April 2. They believe the gator had been feasting on the farm's cattle. 
 
 "We also discovered the remains what we determined to be cattle in the water. We determined that he was in fact attacking our livestock as they came to drink," Godwin said. They spotted the gator Saturday as it surfaced about 20 feet in front of them and Lightsey shot it, Godwin said. 
 
 The gator measured just under 15 feet and weighed in at over 800 pounds. He was so big, they had to use a large farm tractor to pull it from the water, Godwin said. 
 
 Photos show the gigantic alligator dangling from a tractor that had lifted it up out of the swamp. 
 
 The company has been guiding hunts for alligators, wild boar, and turkey in Florida for 18 years and Lightsey says on his website he's been hunting all his life. The largest alligator they had taken before was just over 14 feet and this one was bigger than that, Godwin said. 
 
 They plan to donate the gator's meat to charity and have the alligator taxidermied for display at their hunting shows and expos. 
 
 By the way, Godwin said the photos of the monster gator were taken with their cell phones and uploaded directly to Facebook and weren't photoshopped. "It is hard to believe that something this big exists in the wild," Godwin said. "Hunting is a way of life for us and we are very proud of it!" he said. ||||| (CNN) -- Talk about a big catch! This massive alligator was recently tracked down by hunters at Outwest Farms in Okeechobee, Florida. 
 
 Outwest Farms owner Lee Lightsey, along with his son Mason, his guide Blake Godwin and two hunters discovered the creature Saturday at one of the ponds on their private ranch. 
 
 "We were on a hunt for hogs and happened to come across the gator. There are natural ponds and waterways around for the cows to drink," Godwin told CNN. 
 
 "There are lots of gators out there," Lightsey told CNN. "It's the start of mating season. This was a big one." 
 
 A big one indeed, the animal weighed in at 780 pounds, according to Lightsey. His son Mason told CNN he estimated it was "almost probably close to 15 feet." 
 
 Lightsey told CNN he isn't concerned over records. "It's just fun to see a great day for the hunters, the big ones like that are exciting for the hunters." 
 
 Nine-year-old Mason said this wasn't his first hunting trip, and it was "not scary at all" to hunt such a huge animal. He even posed next to the animal that was hoisted above the ground by a tractor's loader. The picture posted on Outwest Farms Facebook page has been shared over 4,000 times. 
 
 Some people have doubted the photo was real, Godwin told CNN, "There's a lot of folks saying that, but it's 100% real. I took that picture (referring to the photo of Mason laying on the alligator), the photo is real." 
 
 American alligators are especially common in Florida and can range from 10 to 15 feet long. They live in freshwater environments, such as ponds, marshes and rivers. 
 
 The Florida state record for the largest alligator caught is 14 feet, 3 1/2 inches from Lake Washington, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Committee. That gator weighed in at 654 pounds but is not the heaviest on record. The record holder in Florida for weight is 1,043 pounds. 
 
 Outwest Farms has been in business for over 18 years and specializes in alligator and wild boar hunts. According to its website, a hunt for a 13-feet-long gator will cost you $10,000. 
 
 So what happens to the gator? Taxidermy, Lightsey says. Any meat that the hunter doesn't take will be donated to charity. 
 
 The-CNN-Wire: By Amanda Jackson and Anne Woolsey 
 
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– An alligator hunting company found one of the biggest alligators you'll ever see, caught by Outwest Farms owner Lee Lightsey in a pond on his ranch in Okeechobee, Fla., CNN reports. Lightsey says he was out hunting that day with his 9-year-old son, a guide, and two other hunters when they spotted the creature—said by the Lightseys to be almost 15 feet long and weighing in at more than 800 pounds, per Fox 13—in one of the ponds that their cattle drink from. Lightsey shot the gator as it started to emerge from the water about 20 feet away, and they used a tractor to drag it out of the pond, the New York Daily News reports. "We determined that he was in fact attacking our livestock as they came to drink," Lightsey says. The image of his son, Mason, posing next to the alligator has gone viral, already shared nearly 6,000 times on Facebook alone. "It is hard to believe that something this big exists in the wild," the guide who was on the hunt tells Fox 13. The farm says the alligator meat will be donated to charity, and the gator stuffed and displayed at future hunting shows. (Maybe the beast kept burglars at bay.)