Oct 5, 2017
Two Male Water Moccasins fight over the right to mate with large female snake on shore.
As sportsmen on the water or in the woods we see some interesting stuff not normally seem by the average joe.
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Two Male Water Moccasins fight over the right to mate with large female snake on shore.
As sportsmen on the water or in the woods we see some interesting stuff not normally seem by the average joe.
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I’m planning my summer trip to Wyoming where incredible beauty is the backdrop to incredible flyfishing for several species of trout - browns, brookies and cutthrouts. If you never been make it happen. It’s a memory you will never forget.
photos by Jody Moore
Tim Borski - fishing artist
Tim’s work is is perfect for display on metal accouterments of the sport of fishing such as these superb fly reals or liquor flasks. Who wouldn’t want one of these?
Tim Borski - fishing artist
I met Tim Borski nearly 30-years ago when I was visiting the Keys. He had just moved to the Keys and was keeping himself employed as a fly tier and burgeoning artist. Tim’s flies by-the-way are also a show pieces of his creative mind and his experience on the water. The next several posts will be highlighting some of his artwork.
Sunset Bone - by Tim Borski
#limetreebayresort is in my near future A great place to stay in the #MiddleKeys and a great way to break up a trip to #keywest
Photo by Jody Moore
Burmese Pythons in the Everglades Backcountry
This is a new thing to have to be aware of when camping the Everglades Backcountry. I usually go twice a year camping starting around January and up through February and even into March if the weather remains cool. I need about three good cold fronts to knock down the mosquito population so October is too buggy and December just hasn’t had enough fronts to do the trick.
It used to be we had to worry about raccoons coming into camp and stealing our food. Bungee cords were a necessity to secure coolers and food boxes from the prying hands of raccoons that would show up at night or when we were away from camp. Today, raccoons are no longer a problem - Why? Because the pythons that now infest the Everglades have eaten them all.
The python shown above is the same size (17-feet) of one I saw 3-years ago swimming between two mangrove islands deep in a backcountry bay not too far from this camping chickee. In all likelihood it might be the same one.
I can tell you today before we actually step off our boats and on to a campsite we spend several minutes surveying the camp site to make sure there aren’t any eyes staring back at us. So, far I haven’t encountered a python
Burmese Pythons in the Everglades Backcountry
About 2-years ago I came across a python swimming between two islands in these very same waters int eh Everglades Backcountry. The snake I saw I at first mistook for a large rattle snake. Only about 6-feet of the snake was above water and the large head plus the pattern on its back from a distance looked like the diamond back pattern a rattle snake sports. Using my electric trolling motor to get closer the to snake i eventually came close enough to see down in the water where I could see an additional 10-feet of serpent swimming in wide sweeping tail movements. To be honest the sight gave me the creeps. This snake was at least 16-feet long. The snake in the photo above is about that length given the boat is at least 17-foot in length.
I have been camping in the Everglades now for over 30-years and where we used to have problems with raccoons coming into camp at night trying to steal food and break into our coolers we no longer have that problem. I still strap my coolers at night before i go to bed with bungee cords to keep the raccoons out but it really isn’t necessary any more. Where we used to find the muddy footprints of raccoons all over our boat decks we find them clean and dirt free. The pythons, we surmise, have wiped out the racoons in the Everglades Backcountry.
I will tell you that when we do camp now and before we enter a designated campsite we look around the sight for awhile before we step off the boat to make sure we aren’t being watched.