She hooked the gator with her fishing pole and fought for two hours to get it near the boat.
In South Carolina, you have to secure the gator and get it to the boat before it can be shot.
"Your heart's just pumping and pumping he was enormous. You could see this part him coming out of the water - his big belly then you saw his head. His head had to come out for me to shoot," said Mara-Christian.
The 900-pound gator is being processed so Mara-Christian can take it back home to Massachusetts.
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