James Grayson McMicken survived a terrifying alligator attack (Picture: WPEC) An elderly fisherman in Florida has revealed how he survived a near-fatal attack in which an alligator bit down on his leg before trying to drag him into the water. James Grayson McMicken, 71, was fishing in a canal behind his home in North Fort Myers on July 3 when the attack happened. He had gone to the local spot with his bulldog but had barely had the chance to cast his fishing rod into the water before the alligator struck. ‘I started reeling and it jumped out of the water and grabbed me,’ he told local news channel WPEC Florida, adding that it was only quick thinking which saved him from being pulled in. ‘I stuck my thumb in one eye, and I just took that fishing pole and jabbed him in the other eye and jabb