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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Wish he would have posted a pic of the Fed’s trash pile - great fodder for some commentary/placard posters.
he dump attracted rats and the snake gobbled them up
If he’s got one, he’s a few dozen. Trade in those flip flops for boots.
I walked barefoot into the bathroom this morning to find the cats had brought in a snake. Looked to be a small copperhead but whatever he’s joined Ron’s in the great timber pile.
The only good rattlesnake is in the skillet.
Seriously? Get bit once and then ask that question.
Female Canebrake Rattlers can spit out a hundred fifty or so live birth baby Rattlers. I wonder what variety of Rattler this is and if it’s the live birth or not?
Its a timber rattler or what they call them in the south a canebreak rattler. No way do they get that big...optical illusion.
Would you leave land mines around your property?
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