Gator Permit - Volusia County

A County tag is different than a specific area tag. Where ever you decide on going make sure that it is not already deemed as a legal place that others have tags for or you'll be illegal. You must hunt bodies of water that are not open to anyone else. i.e.... private bodies of water. Good luck!!!!

 

I don't know but sounds like a great tag to have. If I had to pick a time to scout it would be at first light as the big boys are heading back to their lairs. I've always seen jumbo gators swimming around while duck hunting early am.

 

You are correct. However if I were in possession of a covited County tag I would find some body of water that no one else has access to that holds a monster and most ranchers with such a problem gator are greatful to have him exterminated from their property to avoid loosing or having calves and other livestock Mamed from a big gator. Good luck.

 

http://myfwc.com/media/3791759/alligator-hunting-guide.pdf

Where can I hunt alligators? You may apply for a county-wide alligator trapping license in 65 of Florida’s 67 counties. County-wide licenses are not available for Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. If you are awarded this type of license, it will allow you to hunt alligators in most public bodies of water within that particular county. Public bodies of water can be accessed by public boat landings/launches. With this type license, you may also hunt any private ponds or lakes within that county, where you are given permission from the landowner. It’s important to know where you’re going to hunt before you apply and that county-wide licenses do not allow you to hunt in any of the specific harvest units (listed on the left-hand side of pages 2-3). There are also 69 harvest units for which you may apply. If you obtain one of these licenses, you may only hunt within that particular lake, impoundment or section of river.

 

According to the size water you scout, scanning the near shore areas with a spot light just about any time of night will give you an idea of population. Then you can zero in on size.

 

Never have gator hunted before. Gotta give it a shot

 

Try this one:

http://myfwc.com/media/2782448/alligator-hunt-units-map.pdf

Look on the second page. It gives the application numbers for applying for the county wide tags.

I used to gator hunt with a guy who always got county wide tags cause he lived on a private lake - they got em pretty much every year he was down here.

 

Volusia county tags are always my first 4 choices. I have gotten them several seasons. Lake Diaz has always been good. Lake Ashby was also good. Tried Blue Lake and the Lakes that it connects to west of Kepler Road. Never saw a gator. As you go north on Hwy 11 from Deland there are nice size lakes on the west and east sides of the road. I fished those lakes as a kid and saw plenty of gators. I don't know where you could get a Jon boat in but if you could those lakes would be productive. I did Lake Beresford last year and didn't see much. I put in at Holly Bluff marina last year and hunted what I believe is Dead River which is on the west side of Hontoon State park. Probably shouldn't hunt on the Park side of the river. Many gators on this section and it goes south and has several branches. You could easily fill two tags in a night.
I got Lake Monroe this year which is always my 2nd choice. Good luck and let us know how you do.

 

Here is a link showing the public water bodies that are available for Volusia County.

http://myfwc.com/media/4434351/alligator-county-maps-863-867.pdf

 

I'm not sure about Volusia County, but I got the worst unit possible. Lake Unsuccessful!!!

Good luck in Volusia, looks like theres plenty of water to keep you occupied

 

Good luck! With the water up the way it is the gators are harder to find. Because of the high water the bank for sunning and regulating their body temp is gone so they move deeper into the woods and foliage to hunt places not able to before the water and places to get out of the water. Definitely a harder thing to do than people would think.

 

Seems like you treat the countywide units as "regular" units and just plug in the numbers. Don't think there is a special quota for countywide as opposed to the other units.