Comments on: Pythonasaurus Eatimus YerAssicus http://shallowfishblog.com/2010/02/python/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: admin http://shallowfishblog.com/2010/02/python/comment-page-1/#comment-2209 admin Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:08:49 +0000 http://shallowfishblog.com/?p=850#comment-2209 LOL re: the Blair Witch reference - nice. And it's understandable that you'd be blown away seeing such a beast winding its way through mangroves. Yikes. You say you were "freaked out" sleeping on the Chickee. I have a trip down that way planned for August, and now I'm gonna lose sleep to a good case of the horrors each night. :-) It's honestly surreal to think that there are scores of these big snakes down in the Glades now. Seems to me the FWC should put a bounty on each one so the message is clear: see big snake, smoke big snake. They're an invasive species that needs to be eliminated. LOL re: the Blair Witch reference – nice. And it’s understandable that you’d be blown away seeing such a beast winding its way through mangroves. Yikes. You say you were “freaked out” sleeping on the Chickee. I have a trip down that way planned for August, and now I’m gonna lose sleep to a good case of the horrors each night. :-) It’s honestly surreal to think that there are scores of these big snakes down in the Glades now. Seems to me the FWC should put a bounty on each one so the message is clear: see big snake, smoke big snake. They’re an invasive species that needs to be eliminated.

]]> By: Capt. Steve Broad http://shallowfishblog.com/2010/02/python/comment-page-1/#comment-2208 Capt. Steve Broad Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:41:03 +0000 http://shallowfishblog.com/?p=850#comment-2208 Here's a link to Flikr with the mediocre pics of my only Python encounter. Copy and paste this link into your browser for the python pics. I only had 3 pics and a lame video but it was pretty damn exciting and it was before we realized we had a problem so you could imagine that we couldn't believe our eyes. http://www.flickr.com/photos/32703307@N06/3059861485/in/set-72157610138692952/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/32703307@N06/3059861445/in/set-72157610138692952/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/32703307@N06/3059861345/in/set-72157610138692952/ Here’s a link to Flikr with the mediocre pics of my only Python encounter. Copy and paste this link into your browser for the python pics. I only had 3 pics and a lame video but it was pretty damn exciting and it was before we realized we had a problem so you could imagine that we couldn’t believe our eyes.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32703307@N06/3059861485/in/set-72157610138692952/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32703307@N06/3059861445/in/set-72157610138692952/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32703307@N06/3059861345/in/set-72157610138692952/

]]> By: Capt. Steven broad http://shallowfishblog.com/2010/02/python/comment-page-1/#comment-2207 Capt. Steven broad Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:39:39 +0000 http://shallowfishblog.com/?p=850#comment-2207 WOW, that is unreal. I've only seen sketches and illustrations of the teeth of pythons and I knew they had rows of gripping teeth to hold their prey while squeezing the life out of them but this is another level. Three rows of teeth and they look like fangs lined up to pretty much eat anything. I know we won't hear of a human casualty in the near future but as our population expands anything is possible. Even a bite wound left untreated can be deadly since they carry batceria like salmonella and other deadly ones similar to the Komodo Dragon. I had my only encounter with a python in 2003 back behind Hells Bay and I got a video similar to an alien encounter with my video camera all over the place, kind of looks like I'm filming The Blair Witch project or Cloverfield but I got some decent footage. This was before we really knew the extent of their range and it freaked us out that night sleeping on the Chickee. If you go to Flikr and search Scott Baker75, you might find the still pics we shot. Anyways, crazy stuff and scout out those trees before pulling your lure out with your hands. Steve WOW, that is unreal. I’ve only seen sketches and illustrations of the teeth of pythons and I knew they had rows of gripping teeth to hold their prey while squeezing the life out of them but this is another level. Three rows of teeth and they look like fangs lined up to pretty much eat anything. I know we won’t hear of a human casualty in the near future but as our population expands anything is possible. Even a bite wound left untreated can be deadly since they carry batceria like salmonella and other deadly ones similar to the Komodo Dragon. I had my only encounter with a python in 2003 back behind Hells Bay and I got a video similar to an alien encounter with my video camera all over the place, kind of looks like I’m filming The Blair Witch project or Cloverfield but I got some decent footage. This was before we really knew the extent of their range and it freaked us out that night sleeping on the Chickee. If you go to Flikr and search Scott Baker75, you might find the still pics we shot. Anyways, crazy stuff and scout out those trees before pulling your lure out with your hands.

Steve

]]> By: Joe http://shallowfishblog.com/2010/02/python/comment-page-1/#comment-2202 Joe Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:05:39 +0000 http://shallowfishblog.com/?p=850#comment-2202 All the more reason to "carry" All the more reason to “carry”

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