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On the final day of gator season, with record-low water turning the swamp into a tough battleground in memory, every team races against the clock to tag out before sunset; Troy and Pickle grind through bad conditions; Jacob and Little Willie lean on family tradition and a treble hook to haul in monster after monster; Bruce and Anna refuse to quit on Six Mile Lake; Don and Calum battle doubt and falling water levels to prove their worth; Leron and Porkchop come up empty.

Swamp People

Tag Out or Bust

With only two days left in the season, Troy and Pickle chase a line-popping gator nicknamed "Lucky"; Jacob and Little Willie face off in a high-stakes rifle-versus-treble-hook showdown; in cattle country, Joey and Kallie gamble on a new bait to help them tag out early; Daniel and Zak battle brutal, boat-rocking giants to try and bring their season to a close; Ronnie and Timmy put their fate in the hands of Salvation Bayou, as they fight to end their gator season with a bang.

Late Season Salvation

With water levels at record highs, Troy and Pickle gamble on a rarely accessible honey hole to make a dent in their tag count; chasing a tip from an old-timer, Ronnie and Timmy hunt for a record-breaking gator named Sasquatch; Leron and Porkchop face disaster when the changing tide threatens to trap their boat; Don and Calum go shot-for-shot in a sniping competition; while Daniel and Zak pivot to a risky new strategy-netting fresh mullet for bait, in hopes of luring in giants.

Rising Tides, Risky Moves

Troy brings in a secret weapon, his own mother, to push Pickle harder than ever; Bruce and Anna go after a big gator that got away, while Leron and Porkchop chase a rare chance to secure 15 extra tags for next season; with Joey stranded at St. Mary's, Kallie heads into the swamp alone for the first time-and Don and Calum come face-to-face with a monster lurking just beneath the surface.

Monster Season

Leron and Porkchop follow a trail of bent hooks and broken branches to hunt down the monster gator known as Freddy Krueger; Daniel sets a 15-gator quota for each of his family's boats; Joey and Kallie grind through rising water and fading luck to rise to the occasion; Jacob and Little Willie train the next generation to carry on the Landry legacy; Chase struggles to capitalize on access to a once-in-a-lifetime honey hole.

Put Up or Shut Up

Joey and Kallie chase down the "Poseidon" through deep water and shattered lines, determined to finally end a decades-long pursuit; Troy and Pickle gamble on an old-timer's hot tip in a remote bayou; Bruce and Anna use rare high-water access to slip into untouched backwoods; Calum fights exhaustion, navigation mishaps, and big gators alone as he pushes himself to hit his quota; Chase struggles to snipe gators in open water.

No Easy Gator

Jacob and Little Willie hunt a cannibal gator known as Bone Crusher; Bruce and Anna hide their lines to stay one step ahead of poachers, forcing Bruce to rely on his uncanny swamp memory to find them again; Troy and Pickle turn an unexpected encounter with a party barge into a heartfelt Veterans Day on the water; Chase leans on high-tech sonar to track down deep-water monsters; and deep in the flooded woods, Ronnie and Timmy gamble everything on a pirogue mission.

Swamp Vets

On a hot day of gator season, a heat wave pushes Louisiana's hunters, and their gear, to the brink; Bruce and Anna gamble by sinking gators in cool water to save them from the heat, and possible poachers; Daniel and Zak's day nearly collapses when their airboat overheats in the swamp; Troy and Pickle recruit a friend to help outrun the high temps; Joey and Kallie employ old-school swamp knowledge to keep their catch from spoiling.

Heat Advisory

As high water floods the swamps, Troy puts Pickle to the test, sending her on a grueling solo mission after an all-night hog hunt; Daniel and Zak wage war against a big bull gator that's snapping lines and threatening their season; Leron and Porkchop gamble everything by paddling a small pirogue into uncharted backwaters; Don and Calum risk their season when an airboat accident traps them in a remote slough; Jacob struggles through a punishing day running his lines alone.

Trial by Flood

As a drastic drop in water levels scrambles the swamp, Mr. Daniel challenges Zak to haul in an unheard-of 100 feet of gator; Bruce and Anna flee crushing boat traffic and wind up deep in a remote slough; battling through a marsh full of tiny lizards, Ronnie and Timmy make a radical mid-day change; Jacob and Little Willie chase the legendary "Crocogator"; Troy's solo grind forces him to call in Chase, as father and son race daylight to finish running 100 lines.

Hunt for the Crocogator

Troy rallies the Landry fleet with a bold 17-gator quota per boat, pushing every team to the breaking point as dropping water levels raise the stakes; Ronnie and Timmy make a risky call, abandoning the marsh for the deep swamp in search of bigger catches; meanwhile, Leron and Porkchop fight through a nursery of small gators, until a creative new bait turns their season around.

The 17-Gator Gauntlet

The swamp's in chaos as days of northern flooding give way to a sudden, water drop, pushing territorial bulls into new battlegrounds and leaving hunters scraping bottom at every turn; Troy and Jacob race into their favorite honey hole before it's cut off entirely, using a "big gator" wager to fuel them; Daniel and Zak confront a surge of aggressive males stirred up by the floods; Joey and Kallie's day spirals.

Smoke on the Bayou

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