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venice guide finds large rattlesnake on property
Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:25 am
Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:25 am
let the pissing match about how he is holding the snake begin
link to nola story
hope these aren't on grand isle
link to nola story
quote:
Price said the snake measured 6 feet in length, and it's not the first he's seen on his property.
hope these aren't on grand isle
This post was edited on 8/15/17 at 12:49 pm
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Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:28 am to Geaux23
You can tell he is a guide. He has that hoist on point.
Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:28 am to Geaux23
Should have used a long shovel...so that instead of a 12 ft snake we could have seen a 20 ft snake.
This post was edited on 8/15/17 at 9:29 am
Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:31 am to Geaux23
Ol' boy appears to be about 5', which makes the snake 4' or less.
Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:42 am to Geaux23
That's a big snake, but no way that thing is 6' long
Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:57 am to Bucktail1
I just calculated the length of the snake using only the shovel handle tip as a reference. It does measur 6 feet in length and is a big assed snake! Crikey! 
Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:01 am to Bucktail1
I have never understood why people do this. Everyone knows the drill and doubts whatever length you give them since you held it so far out. Why not just hold it up length wise next to your body, which would take all doubt out of it?
Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:17 am to LSUengr
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I have never understood why people do this. Everyone knows the drill and doubts whatever length you give them since you held it so far out. Why not just hold it up length wise next to your body, which would take all doubt out of it?
Exactly. Surely there is a tape measure somewhere in that truck/boat/camp. Lay that fricker out next to the tape
Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:17 am to Geaux23
How long will it be before we start having to deal with Boas and Pythons around Venice like they do in S FL?
I am sure a winter like 1989 will take care of them. But we haven't had one of those since....1989. And it seems like they are getting more and more cold tolerant. They move further north in FL every year.
Oh, and in before: Get the rice started.
I am sure a winter like 1989 will take care of them. But we haven't had one of those since....1989. And it seems like they are getting more and more cold tolerant. They move further north in FL every year.
Oh, and in before: Get the rice started.
Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:21 am to LSUengr
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Why not just hold it up length wise next to your body, which would take all doubt out of it?
you think he gives a frick if some internet badasses believe him on the length or not?
Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:31 am to redneck
They are pretty common down there unfortunately.... Thankfully they don't like rosseau cane islands!!
Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:34 am to Bucktail1
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That's a big snake, but no way that thing is 6' long
I'm sur ethe ruler said different.
People.
Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:35 am to Geaux23
Looks like it must have lost most of its rattle over the years. Not nearly as long or thick as one would expect on a snake that's lived to hit 6' long.
Edit:
Hmph...interviewee even says the same thing in the article.
Also, I wanted to add, that if "Venice" is truly meaning down in Venice, then that is further south than the range indicated in the most recent Reptiles and Amphibians of Louisiana has for Timber Rattelsnakes. So, an sighting worth noting.
Edit II:
Did anyone read the story bellow it about the striped bass charter? Video of a small great white doing a full breach on a striped bass about 20 feet off the stern. Good stuff.
Edit:
Hmph...interviewee even says the same thing in the article.
quote:
Despite its length and remarkable girth, the snake had only two rattles, Price said. "It looked like somehow they had broken off," he said. "That one should have had a whole cluster on the end of him."
Also, I wanted to add, that if "Venice" is truly meaning down in Venice, then that is further south than the range indicated in the most recent Reptiles and Amphibians of Louisiana has for Timber Rattelsnakes. So, an sighting worth noting.
Edit II:
Did anyone read the story bellow it about the striped bass charter? Video of a small great white doing a full breach on a striped bass about 20 feet off the stern. Good stuff.
This post was edited on 8/15/17 at 10:48 am
Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:35 am to Clyde Tipton
Everyone needs to do the bed of pickup shot.
Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:40 am to Geaux23
I'm not a big fan of killing rattlesnakes. But it may have been on a size-limited piece of property and would have been in the guys way.
Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:42 am to redneck
lol exactly
obviously he is making it larger by holding it out, everyone knows that
but to think that this isn't a huge rattlesnake snake for venice louisiana is stupid
obviously he is making it larger by holding it out, everyone knows that
but to think that this isn't a huge rattlesnake snake for venice louisiana is stupid
Posted on 8/15/17 at 11:58 am to LSUengr
quote:
I have never understood why people do this. Everyone knows the drill and doubts whatever length you give them since you held it so far out. Why not just hold it up length wise next to your body, which would take all doubt out of it?
Exactly. The only reason to do this is for exaggeration. That snake might be 4 1/2', which is a big timber.
Posted on 8/15/17 at 12:01 pm to Geaux23
quote:
Price said the snake measured 6 feet in length, and it's not the first he's seen on his property
But it will be the last
Posted on 8/15/17 at 12:17 pm to redneck
I don't really know if he cares or not. The man can do what he wants to do. Obviously from the responses though, the average joe doubts it when you stand 6' from the camera but hold the snake 6" from the camera.
Posted on 8/15/17 at 1:12 pm to Geaux23
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Venice fishing guide Ron Price is a huge fan of redfish, speckled trout, flounder and black drum. What he doesn't care for, however, is a federal agency he equates with bottom-feeding hardhead catfish -- the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
In the awful months following the passage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the corps, through eminent domain laws, took possession of a large swath of Price's property in Plaquemines Parish. It cost Price a fortune, and for a time, curtailed his successful charter operation.
But now, 12 years later, business is booming and Price is expanding, with plans in place to build a 2,100-square-foot kitchen and entertainment area for clients. The facility will go on land the corps didn't exactly treat like a good neighbor.
"When they skipped town, they politely left all their trash in a big pile on my property," Price said.
WTF did all of this have to do with the size of the snake? could've just said the "the snake was encountered while cleaning some property formerly used by the COE".
Are NOLA correspondents paid by the word?
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