I'd have cut the line

[hatcreek]

...Even one that size can bite and they have plenty of teeth that they like to show you lol. It won't remove a limb but can cause a nasty flesh wound.

[g2072]

That may be a little gator but if you was up close to it you would not believe what the teeth look like. My dad caught one on a fluke a couple of years back and the teeth look like little needles. I did catch a frog on a fake frog one time. I made a cast and it was over a limb, when I reeled it up to that limb something jumped all over it. When I got there it was a frog hanging on it. Both were out of the water about six inches.

[Fish Whisperer]

If I hooked a gator, I would have cut the line. But I did hook a snapping turtle on a spinner bait, in the mouth a couple of years ago. And proceeded to get the bigger pliers out. My buddy asks me what the hack are you doing? I told him," that's a War Eagle, I want that back".