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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any luck with the pythons? It's insane how quickly they've decimated wildlife in the Everglades and surrounding areas. [/quote]

OP checking in!

Sorry for the lack of updates, had a long day hunting on Saturday, then early to bed and up at 3am in order to get over to the west side of the state on I-75 and out into the hunt area in Big Cypress by dawn today.

No. Pythons.

Bummer. A couple factors: wasn’t quite as cool last night as we were hoping, so the snakes probably weren’t as cold as we were hoping, and didn’t need to bask very long before they got moving for the day.[b] The other reason - and this is the REAL bummer - is that Florida Fish and Wildlife now thinks the python population is falling off - from gradual starvation. [/b]The reason that’s a bummer is because that means they’ve already eaten most of the small animals in the southern part of the state.  As proof of this, or at least my own anecdotal observation, we spent 6 hours walking through brush, cypress woods, pine hammocks and grassland today, and I didn’t see a SINGLE rabbit, squirrel, possum, raccoon, fox, beaver, muskrat, nutria or other small mammal, or any tracks at obvious places. Nothing. Not even many smaller birds to be seen or heard. Big wading birds, yes, but very few small birds. It was erie. In a place that should’ve been full of life, there was literally nothing larger than bugs or smaller than deer or wild hogs. There’s a whole lot of animals out there that aren’t there anymore. That’s what pythons have done to the western Everglades. And now they’re gradually starving out because there’s nothing left to eat. So nature finds a way to fix imbalances I guess. But it sure is costly, with lots of collateral damage and ripple effects. It was a real downer to be out there today and realize what is happening.

So, that was the update for today. Yesterday we hunted in the morning, killed about two dozen by lunch, then went to the beach. I harpooned one practically underneath the I-95 bridge by the Ft Lauderdale airport that was 68” long and 16 lbs! Biggest of the trip so far. Huge male, with bright orange skin with black banding. Paid a local kid at the marina $50 to skin it and do a tanning on it for me. I’ll figure out what to make from it later.

Back out tomorrow morning.

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Thank f**king God. You just made my morning, noon, and night!!

I hope the FL wildlife agency sends in people to search specifically for remaining clutches of pythons and sets them on fire. [/quote]

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