[caption id="attachment_70018" align="aligncenter" width="634"] Record-breaking: From left, Jimmy Greer, of Canton, Dalco Turner, of Gluckstadt, and Jennifer Ratcliff and John Ratcliff, of Canton, pose by their record setting catch, a 741.5-pound male alligator, caught Sunday morning
[/caption]How big can gators get? Just ask a team of gator hunter who caught an alligator weighing 741.5 pounds, setting a new state record for Mississippi.

According to reoports Wednesday, Jimmy Greer, Dalco Turner, John Ratcliff and Jennifer Ratcliff made the catch, shattering the state record for heaviest gator. The gator was pulled from the backwaters of the Mississippi River near Port Gibson on Sunday.

Not only is it the heaviest gator on record, it also tied for the longest alligator at 13 feet and 6.5 inches.

According to ABC News, just last week, Beth Trammell of Madison took the title for Mississippi's heaviest alligator with her 723.5-pound catch. Trammel's catch was bested just an hour later when Dustin Bockman caught a massive 727-pound beast.

'It was around midnight when we initially saw this one,' said Mr Turner to The Clarion-Ledger. 'We passed it by the first time. We really didn’t think he was big enough to go after.'

The team hooked the gaint gator with 3 different lines - which the monster broke.

'He broke three lines, and I had the only hook that stayed in him the whole time,' said Mr Turner.

'It was mass confusion,' said Jennifer Ratcliff. 'As organized as you think you are, when you hook one, everything goes crazy.'

It took an hour for the gator to be secured, reports the Daily Mail.

They had to wait for some additional hunters to come by and help drag the beast into the boat.

'Even with with these two guys, it was very hard, and we were wore out,' said John Ratcliff. 'If it wouldn’t have been for those two guys, we would have never gotten him in the boat.'

Gator Records Are As Follows:

World's longest/largest alligator - 1890 - caught in Marsh Island, Louisiana - 19'-2" * (weight officially unknown, but estimations range between 2,000 lbs. to 2,300 lbs.)

Biggest gator recorded in Texas - 14' 4" inches 900 lbs.(estimated weight/not official) (the gator you see was not the biggest.)

Biggest alligator caught in Alabama - 12 ft. 8" 675' lbs.
Longest Florida gator on record - 17' 5"

Heaviest alligator ever on official record - 1043 lbs - 1989 (just outside of Gainsville Fla.)
Reports of 1,032lb., 1,023 lbs., 1,007 lb. & 1,002 lb. Alligators have been confirmed and documented/recorded

[caption id="attachment_70019" align="aligncenter" width="634"] Monster catch: Dustin Bockman with his record-breaking 727lb alligator[/caption]