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A man in Texas City landed a catch to remember from his backyard creek recently, after he was shocked to see an 5-foot alligator at the end of his line.

Ruben Suarez Jr told Storyful he was fishing in his backyard for alligator gar, something he said he enjoys “because they put up quite a fight”. But what he spotted on April 16 was not alligator gar, but alligator pure and simple.

Suarez’s backyard security camera footage shows him attempting to measure the alligator and struggling to grab its tail before a crew from Galveston County Animal Control arrives at the scene. His phone clips show the gator in the water, and after he landed it, and taped up its mouth. The gator was released by the animal control team.

“[It] was my first encounter with an alligator ever in my life, I have never seen one back there,” Suarez said. Credit: Ruben Suarez Jr via Storyful