When we first bought lake house in North Texas one of the first things I did was build a nice big Pier with a large fishing deck, in a cove there was an absolutely perfect habitat for attracting fish and feeding fish that was Chased Chad and spawning fish utilizing the thick cattails and potatoes vines to do their business. Lake Arrowhead, where I lived and fished for 25 years. Wichita falls is about as Northern and you can get other than Amarillo that extends about 400 MI north of us. but I remember in the 70s a guy running a trotline over at Shoshone Park which is the river that connected Lake Kickapoo and Lake Arrowhead together for the city of Wichita falls watershed. This man running trotline across that River caught a 3-ft long alligator 🐊 but he killed and collected it, called the game warden and it made the newspaper. While living on the lake I spent a lot of time on my fishing dock catching crappie and catfish and striped bass. One morning about noon I was fishing with minnows when about a foot and a half long alligator I initially thought was a gar, then I seen the head and realize it was about a foot and a half long alligator it had a hold of my hook but when it saw me it spit the hook and got away. People say these invasive fish and alligator can't survive in climate outside of their normal element is not true, for an alligator that was caught in the 1970s to reach 3 ft long and 100 lb and the one I almost caught is proof these creatures can adapt in the southern states with temperatures that are warm. Now you hear everyday they're finding new invasive species are a threat to our native species because they eat our native species roe and young hatchlings and smaller species of fish.