An impatient alligator has opted for a “ready meal” for his dinner, by eating a fish directly off a fishing line.

Uploader Elliot Sudal was about to unhook a large fish from his girlfriend’s line in the Everglades National Park when the greedy gator seized it and proceeded to eat it.

Luckily no one was hurt, even the gator managed to grab his dinner with no repercussions.

“The hook eventually pulled free and the gator swam off safely,” said the uploader. Credit: acksharks via Storyful