As python season heats up...
I got two of 'em over here.
...the serpents are more aggressive than ever.
Whoa! Oh!
And the hunters are on the offensive...
Hey there! Hey! Hey!
but are left exposed...
Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi!
and risk everything...
-Aah! -Oh, my God.
...to defeat the invaders.
Aah!
On the northern edge of the Everglades...
-They're seeing snakes out here? -Yeah.
...veteran Gladesman Bill Booth
and his partner Tes Lee
are investigating reports of pythons
farther north than ever before.
A buddy of mine said that they were out kayaking
and they saw what they thought was a big python.
The pythons are moving so far north now
in areas that you wouldn't even expect to find a python.
So I decided to get Tes
and go out there and have a look and see what we could find.
And you know where there's one, there's usually two or three.
Over the past five years,
Burmese pythons have been moving farther north,
becoming more accustomed to cold weather.
According to scientists,
such pythons may have evolved
to survive periodic freezes.
Here it comes.
It's getting really hot out here.
The water levels are going down a little bit,
and maybe the other animals are starting to move
to these larger pockets, which would be the rivers,
so they're able to pick off their prey easier out here.
I don't have my sea legs on.
I hope I don't dump us.
To navigate the shallow river,
Bill and Tes are using a pole boat.
The push pole provides propulsion,
while standing allows Bill to scan the river bank.
Yeah, I think those kayaks were up here.
Just around the bend.
Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff fallen over in here.
Yeah, they could be anywhere in here.
Hey, look at that up there in that sand.
There's a little line right here.
Some right there.
-Little bit right here. -Yeah.
Bill?
What's that up there?
Ooh, yeah, right there.
Get it, get it, get it!
Good eye, Tes.
Ooh!
-Aah -Watch him.
-Watch it. -Aah!
Watch him. Oh, you bastard.
I'm gonna get you.
Aah!
Look at his belly right there.
-He just ate. -He ate?
I betcha this is one of the snakes
that those kayakers saw.
Watch him.
-Aah! -Oh, my God, Tes.
He almost got you in the face.
All right, I'm gonna try and distract him.
-Gonna turn over it? -All right? Ooh.
He's looking around.
Coming at me.
Ooh!
Good freaking job.
This nine-footer confirms the reports
and is proof pythons are invading a new area.
They've gotta be everywhere out here
if we're finding this one so quickly.
Yeah, we need to go upriver some more.
So the signs here, this means that they're out here,
and it validates what everyone else has been saying.
-Up the river? -Up the river we go.
In the high grounds before heading out to hunt,
Troy and Pickle make plans for a more enjoyable encounter.
Thank you.
-Granddad. -What's that, lemonade?
Lemonade.
I love it over here. It's like paradise.
We're in the middle of the woods.
You got deer running around in the yard.
Full of wildlife. Full of wildlife.
I'm hoping to bring the wife and the grandkids and all
out here to hang out and visit for a few days.
I'm gonna fix it. We got some frogs.
Yeah, caught them frogs night before last.
I could go for some home food, some frog legs.
I'm gonna sauté them.
Me and Mr. Troy and Louisiana culture in general
is just highly family-oriented.
We've been out here a long time hunting without the family,
and we're excited to see some people that we know.
We got something wiggling around over there.
Oh, oh, oh!
Oh!
Mr. Troy!
Troy! Unh!
Mr. Troy!
Ooh, you gonna get me!
Oh!
I need to regroup.
Whoa! Come on, you.
Oh, no.
Aah!
Got ya. Whew.
Oh, my God!
Oh!
What the--
Mr. Troy! I got two of 'em over here!
Come here, Mr. Snake. Troy!
Uh-uh.
Aw!
Whoo!
Hey, Mr. Troy!
Miss Bernita is gonna have a cow
if she finds out that we got snakes in this area.
She was planning on bringing the grandbabies up here
and the puppies and all of that,
making a little home away from home with it.
But I really don't think that's gonna happen.
If she finds that out, she's not coming up here at all.
Oh, my God!
21 miles east...
Florida native Zak Catchem and his friend Aaron Crum
are searching for signs of pythons
near one of Zak's childhood fishing holes.
They'll be chilling right on the water's edge, dude,
just like a freakin' alligator.
I fish all the time, and when you fish,
you see everything because everything's attracted to water.
That's where the python's forage would be.
They'd normally just be lurking around there for prey animals.
Yo, check this out, baby.
What is that, a gator skin?
No, dude. That's a giant piranha.
Oh, hell, no.
Yeah, it's called a pacu.
They're invasive down here.
Oh, my God.
Look at the size of that jaw.
God almighty.
Dude, I've caught them up to 50 pounds.
These are monsters.
You could tell at one point
before it was a dried, shriveled piece of pacu jerky
that he was pretty big.
You could see his teeth,
and I know for sure that this is a pacu.
So if we find one, they're schooling animals.
There's probably a ton of them in there.
The pacu is a close relative of the piranha
and strikes fear into fishermen with its human-like teeth.
It can grow up to 90 pounds.
The pacu is native to the Amazon,
but has invaded southern Florida.
So I say we take a couple casts and see what comes out of here.
All right.
We got snakes to catch.
Yeah. I'm gonna set us up in a way that we can do both.
What kind of concoction are you making right there?
Just making a couple of juglines.
See if we can get this bad boy to come up.
A jugline is a trick to fishing:
attach a line and a hook around a small container.
Just like a giant bobber.
Yes, sir.
-Oh, yeah. -Throw that bad boy out there.
The fish bite the line, stay attached to the jugs.
The jugs float on the surface.
There you go.
And we can pick up the jugs later
while we're doing other things.
In this case, catching pythons.
It's worth a shot.
There you go.
That's what we needed.
We might get lucky, we might not.
Get back to snake hunting, buddy.
18 miles away,
Dusty Crum is preparing to hunt one of his favorite hotspots.
The L-shaped swamp is one of my old honey holes,
but it's just so far out of the way
that I just don't get there every now and then.
But thing is, if I get there, son,
I'm gonna suck 'em up like a frickin' vacuum cleaner.
With his reverse-only buggy too unreliable to do the long trek,
Dusty is testing a possible replacement.
Right here, though, we got a decision to make.
This road just loops around and around,
and if I take this little path to the right...
it cuts about 10 miles.
Do I wanna chance it and take you down there
or you wanna just cruise down the highway?
The L-shaped swamp, there's a big county access road
that paves all the way around there.
But thing is, it's 14 miles long, son, and time is money.
We can go right through here,
would cut about 10 miles out of the trip.
Let's do it.
Oh, yeah, this ain't so bad.
All right, all right.
I see now.
Mudhole.
Come on, girl, come on.
You'll be fine, baby. You'll be fine.
Oh!
Frickin' hit a deep hole.
Dang!
Unh!
On a shortcut deep in the Glades...
Oh! I hit a deep hole.
Dusty's hunt comes to a halt before it even begins.
I'm gonna have to maneuver around a little bit.
Oh!
It's stuck like chuck, son.
Here in the Glades, it's all limestone,
but you get these big holes sometimes, a big mudhole.
The rock washed away
and you just sink down and there ain't no bottom.
It don't matter how big or bad your buggy is, son.
There's always a hole that's gonna eat it up.
The first swamp buggies were built in the 1920s
from surplus World War I vehicles.
New military technologies such as four-wheel drive
and heavy duty transmissions
proved very effective in the shallow Everglades.
Dang it. My frickin' rear end is on the ground.
I'm gonna have to walk back to camp,
try to find some help somewhere.
Ohh, why me?
Meanwhile...
I was guaranteed there was no snakes in this area.
I'd have never bought this place if they had snakes here.
With Troy hoping to bring his family for a visit,
Pickle and Troy conduct a full search of the property.
Pee-wee!
Oh, I seen a snake! I just seen it.
I don't know where it went.
Hold on. Why don't you stop and listen for a second?
-What? -Hold on.
She come this way, though.
Was she big?
It was a giant.
I just seen the back end of it.
It was right in this tall grass.
I don't know where the hell it went.
I think you freaked out a little much
and you might've scared her away.
-She got out of here. -That sucks.
-She was a big one, too. -Whoa, whoa, whoa. Look.
What is that?
Oh, my God, that's eggs, dude.
That's a nest. Look at the eggs.
This is all little baby snakes that hatched.
This is, I betcha, a year old.
Female Burmese pythons can lay up to 100 eggs.
The mother remains in the nest,
incubating her eggs for up to three months before they hatch.
Well, I hate to tell you this,
but you got snakes on your property.
My wife is gonna kill me.
I had to pump my wife up to let us get this camp,
to bring her and the grandkids out here.
But she didn't want to have nothin' to do with snakes
or be around where the snakes were,
and now I got snakes in my camp yard.
We need to try to catch
whatever snakes we can catch in this area.
I have to, you know, do what I can.
Right in the backyard, huh?
Last thing I was expecting to find.
Further north,
Bill and Tes are chasing pythons in virgin territory.
See how those big trees are laid over in the river?
I betcha that's from some of the hurricanes
that've been through down here.
Yeah, this is a perfect snake environment.
Yeah, it is.
The storms that come through push some of these trees down,
and the pythons find refuge in there.
It's not an easy trek,
but it's something that we gotta do.
Bill, do you see that up there?
Where?
I think there's a snake up there.
I gotta get up there.
Be careful. That bark's slippery as hell.
Be careful!
Get him, get him, get him!
Gotta catch you all by myself.
Whoa!
Watch it, Tes. Be careful.
Whoa. Shoot.
God.
Oh!
God.
Shoot.
Oh, God.
Bagging this eight-footer is worth $275...
and Tes is proud of her accomplishment.
Whew!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Bill, look what I got!
Feels good to be able to not only spot your own snake,
but catch your own snake.
Being able to operate on my own
now gives me more confidence
to go in these situations where maybe we separate
or maybe Bill's just not around and I don't have to rely on him.
I can do it on my own. It feels good.
-Get another one. -We gotta hustle.
Farther south,
Zak and Aaron are hunting near Zak's childhood fishing hole.
Check this out. Look at this trail.
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, game trail for sure.
Whenever I'm looking for big pythons,
I always try to find a mammal game trail.
Look at that. Rabbit tracks, deer tracks.
Yeah, it's like a highway.
Snakes are attracted to mammals,
just searching for the next meal.
It looks pretty fresh, too.
Yeah, you wanna follow it up? See what we can find?
Yeah.
Lead us to the money.
Keep your eyes open, Zak.
-It's getting thick right here. -Yeah.
If we follow this up, we're bound to find something.
Aaron, right here!
Big boy, big boy!
I got the tail.
Oh, man. Whoa!
Be careful, man!
Oh, my God! Aah!
Come on over here. No, no, you better not bite me.
You best not. No, you best not!
Aah!
-In the southern Glades... -Aaron!
Whoa!
Heads up! Pissed-off one.
This one will tag you, Aaron. Be careful.
Whoa!
Aaron, that thing is all on you.
I have an idea.
Grab that thing's head.
-Grab its head. -Ready?
Grab--He's heading towards you. Yeah, grab him!
Ah! Got him.
There you go.
God almighty, look at that.
Dude, that thing wanted you!
It did not care if I existed or not!
Never gets dull, does it?
This nine-footer nets them $325.
Our goal out here mainly is to get these pythons
and to get as many as we can as fast as we can
in the amount of time we have to do it.
The pacu can kinda wait,
but we'll give it a shot and see what it does.
If it becomes a waste of time,
then we'll just keep on hunting pythons.
Not a bad day, huh?
I don't know about you, but I sure am curious about that fish.
It's not gonna hurt to check those juglines.
Meanwhile...
Ooh, son.
After getting his buggy stuck in the mud...
There's only one buggy that I could think of
that would even touch it.
Dusty calls upon his neighbor for help.
Shealy, he's been building this buggy,
and word is through the swampvine, son,
it's the biggest, baddest buggy in the Glades.
We're fixing to find out.
There you go. Stop right there.
Oh, yeah, you got it in there good.
Oh, that's a solid 10 right there, Dusty Crum.
You know I do it right.
Let's see what we can do.
You ain't gonna rip my bumper off, are you?
You want me to?
I hope not.
Got it. You wanna give it a try?
Uh-huh.
You ready, Dusty?
Yup. See if you can give me a tug, son.
All right.
[engine starts]
Make sure you hold on, Dusty.
On the count of three. Ready? One, two, three!
Wait a minute.
Aw. You got it in there pretty good, Crum.
You're just gonna have to hammer down and keep going.
All right, One, two, three, go!
Whoa! Aah!
It's in there good, buddy. It ain't budging.
This is bad news, man.
I knew better
than trying to bring the old hucklebuggy in there,
and now I'm stuck.
One more. We'll hit it one more time. You ready?
Yeah.
All right, give it a little gas.
Spin 'em up.
Easy! Easy! Hey, hey!
[crash] All right. Whoo!
Dang, son.
You got painted up pretty good. You all right there?
[laughs] Sorry, Dusty.
Yi-yi-yi! Out she goes.
She's out here.
[laughs] Holy cow.
Oh, yeah, baby. Back in business.
That buggy had a heck of a time trying to get me out,
but now I'm out,
it's back on the hunt, son, back on the trail.
I'll tell you right now, boy,
shortcuts make for some long days out here, Dusty.
Well, you ain't lying.
No more shortcuts for me.
22 miles away,
Troy and Pickle are on a mission
to rid his camp of snakes before his family visits.
-She's a big female. -It has to be a big one.
Well, Pee-wee and I got started this morning
hoping that if there was a couple snakes around here,
we was gonna find them
while they were going back to their dirty area,
to their nest.
And those eggs back there like that, man,
I know it's gotta be a big female or something.
If I could wave a magic wand around my camp
and make all the snakes disappear, I would do it.
Because I don't feel comfortable
now that I'm bringing my grandkids.
My wife's got a couple of little dogs.
I gotta be careful now.
We need to hunt the snakes and hunt 'em hard in this area.
Never in a million years I would've thought
we'd have found snakes in the camp yard over here.
I know.
Supposedly they didn't have none this far.
Oh, Pee-wee, Pee-wee, Pee-wee!
-Oh, oh, oh! -Oh, there she is.
Oh, my God, look at this thing!
-Whoo! -Wow!
Pee-wee, this has got to be at least a 10- or 12-foot snake.
-Oh, yeah, she's big. -I never dreamed
they would have snakes this close to where we at.
Dude, watch her, watch her. She's mad.
I'm sorry, mama,
but we gotta get you out of here, mama.
Oh, she's coming at me, all right.
You're gonna have to grab this one.
My hands ain't that big.
Gotta wear her down.
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah!
Yi-yi-yi! Ooh!
Got babies in the area. They pissed.
Near Troy's camp...
Okay, that's your chance.
She's looking at me. Grab that tail.
Troy and Pickle battle a huge mama snake.
Grab that tail. Hurry up, hurry up.
There you go, there you go.
Good job, Pee-wee, good job.
That's how you wear 'em down.
-Oh! Ay-yi-yi! -Uhh!
Pull her back a little bit, gentle,
and let her go.
We gotta wear her down.
We can't hold a big snake like this.
Ooh!
Every time she strikes, she's getting tired.
Oh, my goodness!
That was close.
That's a big female.
-Ooh! -It's a good one.
Oh-ooh-ooh!
Get her attention.
-Yeah! -Oh, my goodness.
This thing is so heavy.
-Oh, my God. -Oh!
What-- What a snake, huh?
Capturing this 10-foot female
is a step in the right direction,
but there's still a lot of work
before the camp is free of serpents.
Ready?
This is a real good start, but I'm worried.
I mean, If there's a female, they gonna have males.
Usually they got males everywhere they got a female.
Plus, we found a nest full of eggs.
There's no telling how many of those juvenile snakes
they got hiding around here, underneath them big rocks,
underneath them old knocked-down palmetto leaves.
I mean, It's a haven. It's a haven for snakes.
We're gonna get another sack and keep hunting.
Nice camp you got. [laughs]
Along the northern border of the Glades,
Bill and Tes push upstream.
How are we gonna fit through this?
I don't know.
The boat's straight and you're going through a crooked river
with a bunch of trees laid over the top of it,
and you gotta navigate through those.
When the water's low, it's pretty difficult.
Let's just pull it up and over.
We're not gonna get it through that.
Works for me.
Be easier than trying to navigate through all that crap.
Up and over we go.
We're going up the river,
and the obstacles are just getting ridiculous.
Our best bet is to pull the boat out of the water
and hopefully get it across to another side
where we can continue our path.
One, two, three!
One, two, three.
Holy crap, Bill, there's a snake right here!
What?
Right here, right here!
Get him.
-Watch it, watch it. -Watch out.
Whoa!
He's all charged up, ready to go.
Yup.
Uh-oh, he's coming after me.
Pull him back, pull him back, pull him back.
Aah!
Look at him, like a cobra.
He's watching you.
Whoa!
He's watching me.
-Got him! -Oh!
-Midair! -Right out of the air.
-Oh, you dirty boy. -Good catch, man.
Capturing this nine-footer this far upstream is alarming.
We're a long ways from solving any problems out here,
so, you know, we just gotta keep moving on.
Good catch. I can't believe that.
Yeah, he's just up here
hanging out in the sun like it's nothing.
One after another.
Back south...
Here's our fishing stuff, Aaron.
After capturing four pythons,
Zak and Aaron return to check the jugline they set
in hope of catching an invasive pacu.
We got some movement, man.
Oh, yeah? Just one.
The other two are gone.
Here's our other bottle, Aaron.
Nice.
Another empty line.
Dang it. But there's still one more left, though.
The other one has something on it.
It has to, unless a gator snatched it.
It's not sitting there, so...
Here it is, Aaron!
Look at this bad boy running!
-It's on the move right now. -Hold on, hold on, hold on.
-Oh, I can see him! -You can see it.
Look on the surface! Look on the surface!
-I can see it. -You can see him, dude!
Dang, man, it's huge.
Come on, come on, come on.
Oh, you got it, oh, you got it, you got it.
Come on back this way.
-Good job, Zak. -Come on back this way.
Look at the size of this thing, Aaron!
Holy cow.
Don't lose him.
-Dang, he's pulling hard. -Heavy fish.
He looks like he's pulling hard.
Yeah, he's bigger than I thought, dude.
He can bite that line in half, right?
Yeah, yeah, he can.
He's pulling. Oh, he's pulling drag.
Don't go back that way.
Don't bite through. Don't bite through.
Here he is.
He's done, dude. He's ready to come in.
Head first, Aaron, head first!
Aaron, scoop him!
At Zak's boyhood fishing hole...
-Don't lose him. -Zak and Aaron
believe they've nabbed a freshwater predator.
Come on, don't bite through, don't bite through.
That thing is giant, man.
He's so big.
Here he is.
He's done, dude.
He's ready to come in.
Head first, head first, Aaron, head first!
Scoop him. He popped off.
-Oh! -Yes!
Oh, my God. Oh, my God!
-Look at that. -Oh, my God!
-Damn!
Get this thing away from the water, dude.
Get this thing away from the water.
Almost gone.
And he spit the hook right then.
Oh, he broke it off or what?
No, he broke through it, dude.
Check this out.
The hook is still in his mouth.
-Shoot. -Oh, my God.
Oh, man, almost lost a monster.
Check out the size of that thing, dude.
How much do you think that weighs?
I don't know, 40 pounds?
Look at that thing.
Oh, my gosh, look at that. Look at that.
It doesn't look like it'd bite anything.
Uh-huh. Then, boom, they will shred you, dude.
Like molars, for sure.
I've caught giant pacu in the past, up to 50 pounds.
But they're invasive
and they do a lot of damage to the Florida wildlife.
So every time you see one, you gotta rip it out.
Florida giant river piranha, dude.
They thrive out here.
They take a bite out of anything.
Just cruising around vacuuming food up.
Oh, yeah. Grab our snake bags, head back to the truck.
That's crazy for a freshwater fish to be that big.
Oh, my God.
Back at Troy's camp,
Pickle and Troy have already removed six pythons...
I sure don't wanna find a snake in my pillowcase.
...but there's a lot of work left to do.
I'm not too comfortable, to be honest with you.
One mature mama can have between 60 and 80 little ones.
It's not really what I wanted to clean up around the camp
and spend the day working around the camp tomorrow,
but now we gotta try to catch snakes.
As soon as I break the news to my wife
about having the snakes in the camp yard,
she's gonna put a "for sale" sign on it.
We need to try to catch
whatever snakes we can catch in this area
so I can tell her
that I really think we caught every one around here.
I mean, I know the eggs are old,
but they gotta be around the area, huh?
Oh, look, what's that?
What's that right there?
-Oh, that's a snake! -That's a snake tail.
She's tiny, but she's fast.
Oh.
I got her!
Oh, the little ones are strong, too, huh?
Let him go and we grab him on the other side.
That's a young snake.
That's gotta be one of them babies.
A well-fed Burmese python
can grow to six feet within a year of hatching.
Look at that.
She's a baby.
Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi!
Give me the tail.
Let's get him out in the open away from these trees.
God knows how many of these things hatched out of that nest.
Okay.
There you go.
I'm gonna get his attention.
We got him! Good job, good job, good job.
Little bébé. Ooh, she's mean, though, huh?
Young snake, young snake.
Ooh-hoo.
Nine out of 10, this snake comes from that nest of eggs we found.
And if there's one around,
a juvenile like that, there's usually more.
This is a baby,
but just think of that big one we just caught earlier.
That mama was absolutely huge.
And if every nest she's got 20 or 30 of them that's hatching
and she's in the area, we got way more than we think.
That ain't good. That ain't good.
We gonna be skipping supper every night.
Ugh. I think we gonna put the camp for sale.
As sunset nears...
Whoo! Right in here.
We made it, we made it. [laughs]
Dusty is finally ready to hunt.
It's a long commute to the office today, huh, girl?
Haha! You did good, baby.
The sun is setting, it's gonna get dark,
and it's gonna get harder to hunt here.
So I gotta get into this L-shaped swamp
and make it pay off.
Ooh, look, look, look.
Bingo, bingo. [whistles]
Whew.
There she is, boy.
Oh!
Ooh!
Oh, yeah. Huh?
Uh-huh. Talk to me, son.
Ooh, ooh. Where you going?
Huh?
Watch it, son, watch it.
Aah!
[laughs]
Whoo!
That's how we do it, baby.
That's a good one, boy.
There we go, nice and easy.
Whew. Son, it was a long day,
and I didn't know if I was ready for that one or not.
But I keep looking at the greater cause,
the bigger mission ahead, you know.
Yeah, snaking ain't easy, son, you know what I mean?
One more going out the Glades.
54 miles north,
as night falls,
Bill and Tes approach the headwaters
of a river invaded by pythons.
You want your headlamp?
Yeah, I'll need it here in a second.
Okay.
We're in and out of the boat,
trying to get through this difficult creek
that is not working with us.
There's stuff in our way everywhere that we're going,
and it's an exhausting effort to get up this river.
Mosquitoes.
Bill, what's that?
Bill, there's a snake right there.
I'm gonna run up after it.
-Holy crap, this is a big one. -Be careful.
Bill, this is huge!
Oh, yeah. God, that's a big one.
Watch it, watch it.
Uh-oh.
Put the torch down. Aah!
Oh, my gosh.
All right, I got his tail.
Be careful, be careful.
Here, you got the--
Oh, God, it just hit my leg!
That thing can reach that far.
Watch it, Bill. Be careful.
In the heart of darkness, Bill and Tes battle a monster.
Whoa, God, yeah, you see that?
That thing can reach three feet easy.
Oh, God, hit my leg!
-She got you? -Yeah.
Oh! Almost again.
Aah!
She's just keeping her mouth open towards you.
Yeah, just wear her out.
Whoa! That thing is mad.
That snake just wants to bite everything.
Anything.
Careful, she's coming after you.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Something's gotta have her all hot and bothered.
Yeah, she might be ready to go lay eggs.
Aah!
[laughs]
Dropped the tail.
-All right, I got the tail. -You got it.
Be careful, Bill, watch it, watch it, watch it.
All right, let me distract her.
Over here, over here.
Watch out, Tes.
Try to pull her off to this side so I can grab her.
-All right, there's your shot. -Ready?
Good job, Tes. That's a big freakin' snake.
Man, this thing is huge.
Look how big her head is compared to your hand.
If this thing sunk its teeth in us,
we'd be in some trouble.
Capturing this breeding female this far upstream
eliminates hundreds of future serpents
and makes this grueling trek worthwhile.
You don't expect to find pythons in that quantity that far north.
I was pretty surprised.
You know, you wanna go look for them,
but you don't expect to find them.
We caught quite a few.
It's a bad situation.
All right, I'm about done for the day.
Yeah, let's call it quits. You wanna pull the boat up?
What are you making for dinner?
Didn't know that was my responsibility.
Well...
Hope you packed a snack.
Near Troy's camp...
-Oh, dude, what is that? -Huh?
I don't know.
It look like an old homestead or something.
Troy and Pickle have eliminated eight pythons,
but they know there are more.
Boy, this thing is old, Pee-wee.
I had never really been to that corner of the property.
But there's an old abandoned homestead
like from the 1930s or 40s.
It look like it's about 100 years old.
Let's go walk inside, see if we can see anything.
Creepy.
What you see in there?
Nothing. Just a lot of old, old stuff.
Come on, hold my hand in case something grabs me.
I got your belt loop.
Wow, smell a rat in here.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, this is a snake haven in here, girl.
I guarantee you they're in here trying to eat them rats.
[boards creaking]
[snap] Oh, [bleep]!
You gonna take this house down with us.
Pee-wee, Pee-wee, Pee-wee!
Hurry up, hurry up! Oh, oh, oh!
-Dude, that's a big one. -Oh, my God!
Look at the size of that thing!
Oh!
Oh, there's two of 'em!
Oh! This one's getting away.
Ay-yi-yi! Almost bit me!
You get the little one. Hurry up. Get that little one.
Them young ones are fast. Be careful.
-Yeah. -Whoo!
Look at this.
-Look at the size of this thing. -Yeah.
-You seen that? -Holy crap.
Two of 'em. That's a juvenile male.
That's a young male with this big female, I guarantee.
Okay, hold it, Pee-wee.
Put yours in there first.
-Oh! -Aah!
Another one! Hurry up! Ay-yi-yi!
I got one, and there's another one
just came out from under this board!
I gotta go behind the house to catch this big one.
You got him? Don't move.
Go! Run!
Oh!
Oh, my God. Hurry up!
Hold on, Pee-wee, I'm coming.
Hurry up. He's getting away!
I got him, I got him, I got him, I got him.
Oh!
Oh, my God.
Look at the size of this damn thing!
This one just came out from under here.
Yeah.
Ahh!
-Ready? One, two, three. -Yeah.
-Ho! -We got 'em.
After a long day,
Troy and Pickle have cleared 11 serpents from the camp.
I don't think we ever gonna clean out
all the snakes in this area,
but I feel that we caught about 90% of 'em.
-Let's roll. You ready? -Yeah.
All right, let's go this way. Right through here.
I was told they had no snakes within miles of this area,
and that just goes to tell you how fast them snakes are moving.
Tomorrow, we gonna come back in the daytime
and look for eggs around here.
Oh, for sure.