Posted on 08/16/2017 9:08:07 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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.
The guide's stepson, Justin Roser, was using a Bobcat to clear the push pile this weekend when the fattest rattlesnake he'd ever seen tried to make a beeline to the levee, Price said. Roser jumped off the heavy equipment and sent the rattlesnake to the great timber plot in the sky.
Price said the snake measured 6 feet in length, and it's not the first he's seen on his property.
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Holding it way in front of him makes it look much longer than 6 feet.
I sure hope he knows how to clean it and cut up on nuggets like catfish nuggets...oven fry or pan fry...
Guess what?
It tastes like chicken! Or froglegs...which tastes like chicken.
Really hard to see any rattles in the pic??
I know a man who proudly represented the Corpse of Emgineers for nearly 40 years. He would be crushed to know what a sorry bunch it has become now if he were alive.
New hatband just to get the PETA people P.O.’d.
I know nothing about dealing with snakes first hand.
However, why couldn’t he just let the rattler (?) keep going toward the levee as it was trying to do?
Do rattlers go after other animals in the area, the way pythons do in Florida?
That’s also how you can make a wild boar look the size of an elephant...
Hatband? Heck, with that rascal it looks like you could get that plus a pair of boots, and maybe a matching vest.
“It tastes like chicken! Or froglegs...which tastes like chicken.”...nope..I always thought it tastes like what you think rattlesnake would taste like=>rattlesnake...ate a lot of it at the roundups in Sweetwater..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_rattlesnake
Timber rattlesnakes are protected in several states, including Texas, but not Louisiana.
That bad boy looks like he was chowing down on nutria.
That's what I was thinking. Now he has to deal with a nutria population explosion.
That is a baby of some I’ve seen in Fla back in the 50’s-60’s.
8’ of more long and a girth as big as a coffee can.
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