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One hunter challenges his sons to a contest to see who can catch the largest gator; another hunter reassembles her team once again to help her tag out.

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Now or Never

One team burns sage to help them end their bad luck; a second team searches for inspiration from a local church; a third is determined to outdo their father by catching a massive monster.

Of Gods & Otters

One team's prized honey hole is blocked by reeds, so they rely on a secret luring technique; a second hunter dedicates his closing tag to catch a monster named Cujo; another team faces dangerous confrontations due to a disrupted landscape.

Here Gator Gator

One team baits their lines with a gator bait recipe called Surf and Turf; a second team hunts their last tags of the season on an ATV; another team finds themselves hindered by an unknown intruder who is hanging lines in their territory.

Gator Boo-Fay

One team fights a dangerous territory called The Pipeline; another team attempts to capture an infamous line popping gator called The Phantom.

The Phantom

One team goes deep into the woods to seize a gator that has taken over a local fishing hole; a second team goes after a gator that is terrifying a camp; a third team hunts three different swamps for three monster gators.

The Three Kings

One team has to hunt with an old-fashioned motorbike and sidecar; a second team acts on a tip from some local crab fishermen; a third team fights with a bait-stealing monster.

Bait & Switch

One swamper reunites with another to help a family friend remove a rogue gator from their marsh area; a third team fights with an indestructible monster.

Royal Reunion

One hunter returns from an injury in the hopes of winning the $10,000 bounty on the last day; a hunter ventures to an area he has been saving all season; a team makes a mad dash to get its alligator across state lines before the bounty deadline.

Bounty or Bust

As two teams cross state lines in search of a prize-winning monster, they discover that hunting through the night comes with terrible risks in Mississippi.

Blood Moon

One team pursues a legendary cursed monster that has been causing havoc for a local crawfisherman; a second team struggles after a series of injuries; another hunter forgets his bullet clip and sprays his deckhand with shrapnel.

Crooked Jaw

One hunter fights poachers by setting lines with no locator ribbons and relies on the Swamp GPS in his head to find them; another team has an uneasy stand-off with a hunter in the swamp; a final team must take out a vicious bull gator.

Outlaw & Disorder

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Swampers fight huge alligators and Mother Nature trying to win The Bounty on the Bayou; One hunter goes deep into the swamp to catch a legendary reptile; Another hunter empowers his younger deckhand by letting him fight his first line.

S6 E1 | Bounty on the Bayou