( CNN ) -- A voice heard on an amazing video of 300 feeding alligators says it all . `` I ai n't never seen so many gators in my life . '' Ray Cason 's biggest catch earlier this month , when he went fishing at Stephen C. Foster State Park in the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia , was two videos that have made a splash on Facebook and YouTube . As of Tuesday night they had garnered nearly 100,000 page views , according to YouTube . One of the videos looks like something out of an `` Animal Planet '' special . Alligator heads bob on the surface while others , in the background , gyrate and thrash in the water as they snap at mudfish , also known as bowfin . The alligators are jammed in a canal perhaps 30 feet wide . `` With a high population of mudfish you can almost smell them , '' said Art Webster , supervisory refuge manager at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge . `` I 've never seen footage like that before , '' said state wildlife biologist Greg Nelms who , along with other wildlife officials , told CNN this rare `` cooperative feeding '' happens once every three or four years . Stephen C. Foster park manager Travis Griffin believes it last happened in 2007 . Griffin , who was not at the park the weekend of the event , said rangers saw alligators congregating about 10 p.m. July 9 near the quarter-mile-long canal that leads from the Foster boat area into open water near Billy 's Lake . No one had any idea of the scene that would greet Cason , 39 , of Homerville , Georgia , on the morning of July 10 . `` When I put the boat in you had the awfulest ruckus , '' Cason said . Many alligators were in the boat basin . He headed out in the early morning light with another boat close behind . Moments later , they realized they had about 150 alligators in front of them and 150 behind . Cason said the teeming alligators were hunting together . Many formed a reptile wall beyond the canal . `` They would converge together , '' Cason said . `` I saw gators pushing them [ the fish ] back [ into the canal ] . I saw them push them to the bank and eat them . '' Cason returned to the park the next morning , July 11 , and shot more video . He said about 175 gators were visible . The alligators were gone by 8 a.m. , according to Griffin . Although he and other wildlife officials said the waters are safe for boaters , the state park waited to be sure that wild morning . `` I would n't rent my boats out until they were gone , '' he said . Stephen C. Foster State Park covers 80 acres . It is a small portion of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge 's 401,000-plus acres . Webster estimates the refuge is home to about 11,000 alligators . He said he was concerned that Cason and the other boater may have been pushing the gators along and might have hurt them . `` This was potentially not a safe thing to do . '' But Cason said he waited several minutes for most of the alligators to clear before he proceeded . An alligator bumped the boat behind him but was n't injured , Cason said . The videos were posted by the Clinch County News . Cason said he hopes to show additional footage to school groups . `` By no means is the swamp dangerous , '' he said . `` It 's probably something I never will see again . '' Cason had additional luck that Saturday , catching his limit of jackfish and warmouth perch . Life has almost returned to normal at Stephen C. Foster State Park , which is near the town of Fargo . Alligator sightings are at normal levels , it 's hot and the park 's beauty awaits visitors . Griffin is n't sure whether Cason 's encounter will bring more campers and boaters , but it sure has raised interest in the behavior of alligators . `` You can never predict what they are going to do , '' Webster said .
Homerville fisherman 's camera catches about 175 alligators hunting together . Officials in Griffin says such behavior is unusual . Stephen C. Foster State Park was heading out to fish at Ray Cason . Alligators were likely eating mudfish ( bowfin )