It's the last day of python season.
If one of these female snakes get away,
letting one go, you got another 60 snakes on your hands.
He got his eyes on you.
With time running out...
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
There's one, there's one!
Gotta be a female out there nesting.
The hunters get ready...
Aah!
-Oh! -Bill, watch it, watch it.
for one last...
Whoa!
-strike... -Aah!
against the invading serpents.
We got two of them right here.
Holy cow, there's a whole pit of 'em.
That's a big frickin' female.
Hey!
Aah! Get off me!
On the edge of the Everglades...
Look at this bunch.
Veteran hunter Bill Booth has gathered the troops
to coordinate a final but crucial offensive
against the serpents.
We only got a day left, and we gotta knock it out.
We're gonna target females
that are actively breeding and nesting
or carrying eggs looking to nest.
One female can dump 60, 70 eggs.
These are the ones we gotta get out of here.
These are the pregnant females, and they gotta go.
If each team catches a breeder,
it's like catching hundreds of pythons in a single day.
All right. You got some new spots?
I do. I wanna send you two out
to where those Z trees are.
The Seminoles, they had these trails
with these Z trees in it.
Yeah, where they break 'em
-Yeah. and just let them grow full?
And they use them for a marker.
You and Pee-wee gonna go
check out this dry lake bed.
There's a bunch of limestone with the big holes in it.
We need to hit that.
That's the end of the world, dude.
I know.
And then Tes and I are gonna go hit those python nests
that we've seen in the past.
If they got snakes, we all on it.
Let's do it. I'll get those coordinates to you,
and we'll get after it.
-We gotta go. -Sounds good, sounds good.
All right, y'all be careful, y'all be careful.
All right. Troy, Pickle, y'all be careful.
-Be careful, Troy. -Bye, ladies and gentlemen.
-Good luck. -Careful out there.
-You ready? -Let's go find this lake.
Let's do it. Let's do it!
-All right, buddy. -Let's get it.
We got a long way to go.
11 miles east,
Bill and Tes target a stretch of small islands
where Bill has seen evidence of python nests in the past.
There's gotta be a female out there nesting.
This is that time of year, and I'm sure they're there.
That's the spot.
All right.
Perfect.
Coming in hot.
You lead the way. You know where you're going.
This is it right up here.
These islands are about 50 yards wide and 100 yards long.
It's rocky underneath.
Just kind of an area
that you wouldn't think anything would live,
and the pythons like to nest there.
Here's the old nest that I found.
Whoa. Whoa, are those snake eggs?
Yeah.
That's crazy.
They're not like chicken eggs. They're big, like, leathery.
When I originally found it, it was brand-new.
She could be anywhere around here,
and that's why I wanna check.
I can't believe she's not sitting on this nest.
You think she'll just be right around here?
Yeah, they could be anywhere.
We just gotta check every little nook and cranny.
Right here, right here. Come here, Tes, right here.
It went into the bush.
Watch out.
Oh, man, it's getting all up in this stuff.
Yeah, this looks like a male, too.
It's not that big female we're looking for.
Here, you want the tail?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look out, it's right near you.
This thing is shedding.
It's slipping right out of my hand.
He's coming right at your foot.
Yeah, he's right here.
Be careful, be careful.
Boy, he's wrapped in that stuff, isn't he?
Yeah.
Oh! Oh, my gosh! Shoot!
Watch out. Don't trip on these rocks.
-All right, let me get him out. -Okay now.
There's all kinds of rocks and crap in here.
Watch yourself.
I'm gonna get him.
Careful.
-Oh! -Whoa. That was a long one.
Just wants to get in the woods.
He's right here, he's right there.
-There he is. -I got him.
-God. -Whew.
He did not make it easy down in there.
We had to work for this sucker.
Good God.
This seven-foot male is a good capture,
but not what they're after.
This is definitely not the big female that we're looking for.
We found the old nest,
but, uh, you know, there was no female on it.
It's like a wasteland out there.
We gotta get into the thick stuff.
Well, I mean, we got one, so that's good.
Yeah, not the big one, though.
Let's go up the canal a little ways
and check out that other island.
25 miles west...
Go straight.
Squeeze through here?
Don't get us stuck between the trees.
Based on Bill's tip,
Troy and Pickle look for a remote location
that could be a sanctuary for breeding female pythons.
We're almost at the end of the season here,
and Mr. Bill's throwing something new at us today.
And he said that
there's this old, dried-up, abandoned lake bed
that nobody has touched,
and that's pretty much all we know.
Okay, let's park it and we gonna get down and walk from here.
Gotta go straight that way.
We got a long trek ahead of us,
but eventually we gonna come to some big limestone rock markers.
You ever been on the bottom of a dry lake bed before?
This would be my first time-- if we can find it.
Troy and Pickle have caught 295 pythons
so far this season,
and they're hoping to make it to 300.
The guys are telling me
that we having a really great season.
And in a way, that's kind of sad,
because we're catching a lot more snakes,
but that kind of sucks
because we're trying to get rid of these snakes.
We're making more money,
but we also trying to diminish this population.
We gotta be getting close.
Oh, yeah, I think we in the right area.
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
Look-a here. Remember what Bill said?
Yeah, the rocks.
When we get to the big rocks
that look like it was a wall or something.
Oh, P, P!
Look right here.
-Oh! -Hurry, hurry, hurry.
-Holy crap! -Look at this thing.
Oh, my God. Oh, no.
Don't let him get away. You got him?
Watch him, don't let him get away, don't let him get away.
Dude, how'd you see this?
Oh, no, he ain't getting out of here.
Let's pull it out of here.
[laughs]
-Oh! -Aah!
Watch it, watch it.
Oh, no, buster.
You ain't getting away. Hell, yeah.
All right, we gotta wear him down, Pee-wee.
Wear him down.
Watch it, Pee-wee, watch it.
-Aah! -Aah!
Oh-ho-ho, no.
Oh, no, you ain't goin' back. Mm-mm.
Aah!
-God. -Whoo!
Ha! Ah, look at this thing.
This seven-footer
puts them one closer to 300 for the season.
And you seen where he was going, huh?
Straight where we gotta go.
I hope so.
One, two, three.
It might be a sanctuary back there.
Nobody been there in the last couple of years.
There's no telling how many snakes we gonna find.
-All right, you ready? -Yeah, let's go.
-You pumped? -Yeah, I'm pumped.
-How about you? -I'm pumped.
Further south...
Get up in this frickin' hunting ground, son.
Dusty starts the last day of the season
on the same mission as his fellow hunters:
locate and remove breeding female pythons.
Them big females are coming up this high ground.
They'll get up in this grass and they feel safe and hidden.
See this pine?
The snake will get up under all this pine.
The females, they're so cryptic,
you really gotta search hard to find them.
Perfect spot.
Anywhere that all that covers.
Laid down. See like this even?
You think this is solid, but it ain't.
There's hollow spots.
Snakes love to get down in there.
Dang, there's one, there's one.
There it goes.
It's getting in there.
It's up in there.
Ah, I got him, I got him.
Whoo, son.
He about slid into second base.
Aah!
God!
Oh.
Ahh!
[grunting]
Watch this one, boy.
Whoo!
Aah!
Whoo!
Son!
Mm, you got me good, baby.
Aah!
These little ones are quick, boy.
A lot faster than them big ones.
This six-foot male is fast and vicious,
but it's not the breeding female Dusty is after.
That tooth, man, that frickin' broke off in there.
I got two or three in there.
Whoo!
Roll with the punches, son.
It's gonna be in here somewhere.
We'll find it.
We'll keep on trucking, son. Whoo-hoo.
We'll keep on looking.
35 miles northeast,
Zak and Bruce look for unique markers
that will hopefully guide them to an area
with female pythons looking to nest.
Here we are, Brucie.
It's time to catch some snakes, boy.
-Is that one of them trees? -Yeah.
Yeah, you can definitely tell.
Check this out, Brucie.
-See that? -Yeah.
That's manmade. You see that bend?
-Yeah. -But sometimes they bend it down
and back up, you know, into like a Z.
It's one way to navigate through this dense swamp, man.
These Z-shaped trees are kind of like a hidden pathway
through the Everglades.
What the Native Americans used to do
is they used to bend out these little trees
and just use as a landmark
because it's tough to navigate out here.
-Some cultures stack rocks. -Yeah.
Out here, the Natives just used to bend those cypress trees.
What we're gonna do is just split up,
see what we can find, divide and conquer.
We're trying to get on to the big, breeder female snakes.
Man! There's gotta be a clearing out here somewhere.
Ah, here we go.
Ah! There's a snake. Come on!
Come on. Uh!
Come here, big boy, come on.
I know it, I know you don't wanna come out.
Damn.
What you doing? What you doing?
Ow. Damn.
Aw. Nope, don't go that way.
Ah-ah-ah. Where you going?
Come on.
Aah!
Uh! Oh!
My God, get out of here.
Now come back down here.
Whoa!
Oh, no, no, no, no. I have nowhere to go!
No!
Not there, not there, not there.
Not there.
There he is. Yep. Uh-huh.
Picked the wrong place.
Whew.
Holy hell.
What you doing out here, man?
Bill and I been talking about you snakes being back here.
You're gonna be nice and comfy in this sack.
This seven-footer is a good sign
that there may be a breeding colony nearby.
If I found this bad boy back here,
I'll probably find more.
I knew there would be snakes back here,
but I didn't know I would just jump into it like this.
And finding one right off the bat is always a good sign.
Why don't you just sit comfy in a tree?
And I'm gonna find whoever else is back here with you, huh?
Along a remote canal...
So you got some nests out here?
Yeah, well, I found one out here a couple years ago,
and I haven't been back to it.
Bill and Tes push further upstream
in hopes of locating a nesting female python.
Perfect place for those big females to nest up in there.
We're just gonna hit the thicker islands
and see if we can find something on them.
The pythons find refuge in there.
Nobody goes out there,
nobody bothers them, and they nest out there.
Hey, what do you think if we just pulled in right here?
What if we just started right over here?
There's a low spot right here.
-Yeah, yeah, that works. -Okay.
I'll get the rope.
Look how thick it is right here.
You've seen one out here before?
Yeah, a couple years ago.
It was in this thick stuff.
Oh.
It was right here between these trees.
Hmm.
She's not there for sure.
There's, like, not even any skins in here or anything.
No.
So this probably hasn't been touched for a while then.
Yeah, it's been a couple years.
I just thought for sure she'd be back on there.
Bill, there's a snake right here.
-Where? -Right here.
Get him, get him, get him, get him.
Watch out.
Yeah.
-He's looking right at me. -Watch him, watch him.
Let's drag him out here so we don't get tripped up.
-He's looking right at us. -Be careful.
Be careful.
God!
Give me a shot.
I'm trying to get him out.
-Oh! -Watch him.
He's looking right at you.
-Whoa! -Bill, watch it.
He almost got me.
Ah, pull him back.
He's trying to trip me up.
-Be careful. Whoo! -Ooh!
Aah! He is some kind of mad.
Ooh, watch him.
Oh, oh, man.
He got his eyes on you.
Shoot.
-Now he's coming right back. -Oh!
Bill, watch him, watch it.
He almost got me.
All right, I'm gonna grab him, okay?
Quick, quick. Good job.
Golly, was he nasty or what?
Look at him. He's trying to eat you right now.
That's not that big female.
There's a lot of males around here for some reason.
All right, let's get him in here.
We're finding some things that look like nests
and finding old nests,
but we're just not finding the females right now,
and it's kind of upsetting.
And hopefully, we can land ourselves somewhere
where we're gonna find those big females.
We're just gonna keep pushing on, you know?
Deep in the Glades,
although he's caught a juvenile male python,
Dusty continues his search for a mature breeding female
and her mating partners.
It's a lifetime catch, you know,
to interrupt that breeding ball, son.
It's gonna be in here somewhere.
Right there, right there.
Oh.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Boy, this is another one that's frickin' pissed.
Oh!
Ahh! Whoo!
Aah!
No, no, no.
Boy, what's with these frickin' snakes, bud?
They're frickin' super pissed.
Don't bite me on the way in.
Whew!
Whoo!
Two snakes going away from the water now.
Something's going on here.
Both snakes are madder than hell.
Whew.
This snake is acting like it's going away from the water.
It's going away from the food source.
Something don't add up.
One thing I've been thinking about
is the males, they'd be coming in looking for a date.
Just when you think you've got your snakes figured out,
they do some spooky crap.
Whoo!
In an unfamiliar forest,
Troy and Pickle have separated as they look for a dry lake bed
that may be a breeding ground for pythons.
I'm not seeing nothin' in here.
Think we wasting our time.
Oh, oh, oh, oh!
Whoa, look at this thing.
Oh, [bleep], another one.
Two of them. Holy smokes.
Pee-wee! Oh, my God.
Look at this, not one, but two together.
Ooh, Lord have mercy.
Pee-wee!
Aah! Aah!
Got to wear him down, wear him down.
Aah! I gotta practice what I preach.
I tell Pee-wee all the time wear him down, wear him--aah!
Wear him down. Aah!
Where's Pee-wee when I need her? Aah!
Look at this thing.
Aah!
Whew.
Okay, I gotta hurry. We got another one.
Damn, another one. I gotta hurry. I gotta hurry.
Put this thing in the sack before it gets away.
Oh, he's coming towards me.
That one's coming towards me.
Oh, crap, that's all I needed, two at one time.
Ohh...
Get outta there. You ain't gettin' away, buddy.
Oh. Aah!
Aah! Aah!
Cannot let the tail go.
You ain't gettin' away, buster.
I got news for you. Aah!
This thing is mean.
Ooh!
Aah!
Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo.
I'm getting too old for one at a time,
much less two at a time.
Now I gotta figure out
how I'm gonna put this thing in the sack with another one.
Oh, he's trying to get away. You can forget it.
Aah! He's trying to bite me.
Uh-uh, Buster. You ain't--
Ooh, this one's trying to get out the sack.
Uh-uh.
You're both going in the sack.
This breeding pair is a sign
that they may be close to the dry lake bed.
Whew.
I've never been on an old lake bed
or a dry lake bed before,
so, you know, I'm kinda pumped up
to find the place.
But it's hard to get to
and it's most probably a breeding ground
where they all congregate to breed.
I don't know what it is,
but they all headed in that same direction,
I know that for sure.
Where's my helper?
In the jungle along a stretch of islands...
If I was a big female with a bunch of eggs,
this is where I would want to be.
Even though Bill and Tes have been catching male pythons,
they're yet to locate a large breeding female.
Goodness gracious, I don't know
how we're gonna see anything in here.
Well, it's thick.
We can barely move through it.
If they're not out in this more open terrain
where we were earlier, maybe they're gonna be in this stuff.
The encouraging thing is that it doesn't look like
a lot of people are making their way through here.
Oh, no, nobody comes out here, except us idiots.
Hey, speak for yourself.
What's that right there? It's right here.
There's one? Where?
-Right in here somewhere. -Where, where, where?
Son of a bitch.
I don't even see anything.
No, I saw something big.
-What? -Really [bleep] big.
It couldn't have moved that fast.
It's gotta be right in here.
How big, Bill? Bill, like a female?
Yeah, that was a big female.
Holy crap.
Can't even move in this place.
-How big was it? -Like a frickin' monster.
It's the one we're looking for.
I just see this big massive python,
and it was slithering away and got into this thick brush.
She just came through here.
She's gotta be right around us.
You would think, I mean, as big as she is.
This stuff is so frickin' thick in here.
Snake's gone.
God, it was a big frickin' snake.
God, I hate losing a frickin' snake.
I can't believe we lost her.
Let's keep moving and try to find it.
Because I don't want her to get too far away from us.
We'll get her. Don't worry.
Further east along an ancient trail...
Golly, this is thick.
Separated from Zak, Bruce looks for an area
that may house a breeding python colony.
Ah, here's could be a little hole.
I don't like this. Kinda spooky.
Apparently, I ain't the first one to come back here.
I seen different containers over here and stuff.
Something happened back here.
I start looking around, and I'm seeing different things
that you shouldn't see back here.
You know what this is?
Moonshine.
They be cooking moonshine right here.
I'm thinking this is an old bootleggers' camp or something
where they used to make moonshine
because they got big tanks, all kind of stuff back here.
You know, sneak it out the swamp and sell it.
You know, it's done all over the world.
But this was years and years and years ago.
They'd put their stuff in here to ferment and stuff.
It's kind of spooky to see stuff like this back here.
Years ago, they'd have shot you for being here
because they didn't want nobody to know
what was going on back here.
It's still the same way.
It's got a spooky feeling to it like somebody's watching you.
This could be-- Ooh, oh!
Oh, I walked right past that thing.
He could've nailed me.
Whoa, buddy, come on, come on.
Aah! Where's Zak when I need him?
Aah! Oh, crap.
Oh! No, dude, no!
Get back.
Aah!
Come on. Get out here in the open.
Oh, whoa. Come on.
Why won't y'all listen to me?
Don't you bite me.
Aah! I got him, I got him, I got him.
Whew. I gotta get him in the bag.
How am I gonna do that?
Boy, it's a lot easier when Zak's here to help me.
Whoa.
Yes, yes, yes.
Got one in the bag.
This seven-footer is a welcome $250
and a sign the breeding colony may be close.
Got us one.
I think Bill was right.
This is a good place to search.
Snakes are already showing up.
I think I'm getting to the snakes, though.
As the sun starts to set on the last day of python season,
Dusty's running out of time to bag a female breeder.
There's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Ding-ding, there's another one
that's going away from the water.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, look at that.
Crap, there's another one.
Holy cow, there's a whole pit of them.
Oh. Oh.
Whoo. Uh!
[grunting]
God. Unh!
Wow, wow, wow, look at that.
Whoo.
There she goes.
Ah, I gotcha.
Man, there's more of them in there.
Holy cow. Whoo, man!
Crap, they're all starting to move.
There's another one going.
Uh-oh.
Man, there's more in there.
A breeding ball right here.
Gotcha.
Oh!
Whoo!
Whew, whew, whew.
Okay, we're all right, we're all right.
We're okay.
Oh.
Whew.
Okay.
There's number five. Whoo!
Mm!
Ahh!
Looks like there may be one or two more in there.
Oh, yeah, there it is.
Look at this big female.
That's what they're all after, bud.
Whew.
I got her.
Aah! Now...
Whoo, whoo.
That's it, that's it.
Whoo, son.
Holy cow.
Five males, one female.
Big breeding ball.
Most snakes ever in one spot for sure.
This here is gonna stop future generations of snakes.
Dusty's six-snake haul is his personal best...
Whoo!
Son, that's the motherload, boy!
...and a major victory for the Everglades.
Son, we cleaned up. Whoo!
We got eight snakes up out of the Glades,
six at once.
That's definitely a personal best.
I didn't know how I was gonna handle that for a minute, son.
I had my hands full.
This old amigo's gonna be tired, boy, when he gets home.
Might take me three, four hours to get back,
but I'm gonna start heading that way.
Mm.
Deep into the night...
Oh, I'm starting to think
we got turned around somewhere back there.
Yeah. Mr. Bill didn't say nothing about elephant ears.
Just two pythons short of 300 for the season,
Troy and Pickle struggle to find the dry lake bed
they've been looking for all day.
Pee-wee and I walked through a hundred yards,
like a football field, of giant elephant ears.
Over our heads, they was like 10 feet tall,
and elephant ears usually grow on the edge of water,
and there's no water nowheres around.
Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho.
-[bleep] Watch my hand. -Pee-wee...
-Huh? -Pee-wee, look what we found.
Ohh!
We found it. [laughs]
We finally broke through them elephant ears...
We seen the rocks.
It's ancient.
It's like from years and years ago, it's so old,
and it makes you wonder what happened here?
Wow, huh?
Lord, Lord, Lord.
What is this?
Rocks as far as you can see.
Boulders, not rocks.
This gotta be the old lake bed.
It's gotta be what Bill was telling us about.
It's gotta be.
There's so many holes in here, though.
We gotta find some snakes up in here.
Look at the trails in them rocks.
Oh, yeah, that's definitely a snake hole there.
Everywhere you look underneath them rocks, there's holes,
in between the rocks, underneath the rocks.
This is a haven for snakes.
Pee-wee! Pee-wee!
Oh, Lord have mercy, look at this thing.
God. Look at the color.
Look at the color of this thing. - Watch it!
Be careful, watch it. Oh!
Don't let this thing get you. He's fast.
He's young and fast, ooh. But guess what?
You're young and fast, too.
Oh, yeah, I'm about to get him.
Grab him. Grab him, Pee-wee.
I got him, I got him.
Grab him while he can't see you.
There you go. Get ready.
-I'm gonna hold him. -I'm there.
I'm gonna hold him. I'm gonna stretch him out.
You grab him. Grab him, Pee-wee.
Show him what you got.
-You ready? -Yeah.
You ready?
Ay-yi-yi, good job, good job.
Yes indeed!
Boy, I like the color of that one, huh?
The presence of this nine-foot male
put the hunters just one python away
from an impressive 300 captures.
Its presence in this barren landscape
may also be a sign
there's a female looking to mate nearby.
-[laughs] -Get the hell in there.
We making some money now, baby girl.
I'm pumped up.
We didn't hightail it outta here like we probably should've,
but we got this big snake now,
and we got one more snake to catch.
That is really a pretty snake, huh?
Yeah, that's a really pretty one.
[thunder]
20 miles northwest,
still looking for a female breeder,
Zak has abandoned plans
for a sunset rendezvous with Bruce at the buggy.
Holy [bleep]. Holy [bleep].
Oh, my God, oh, my God.
Damn, too late.
Looks like we're going this way. Aah! Damn it.
Come on, come on.
Big girl, really big girl.
Aah! Come on, come on.
Please don't hit me. Please.
Holy [bleep]. Holy [bleep] Aah!
Damn it. Aah!
Oh! Whoa!
Aw, you're not like the other snakes, huh?
I should've just grabbed you when I had the chance.
Damn.
Aah!
Holy-- No, not my skin.
Come here, come here. Aah, damn it!
Come on, come on, stretch out,
Stretch out, stretch out, stretch out. Come here.
Come here. Damn it. Get off me, get off me.
Get off me, get off me!
Where's your tail?
Aah!
Aah! Aah!
What the hell-- Get off me, get off me.
Go away, go away.
Get in this bag, Come on. Unh!
Yes, please.
This 12-foot breeding female
is exactly what Zak and Bruce came for.
Following the Z-shaped trees paid off,
because we came back here and we caught them.
And this giant is honestly
one of the biggest snakes I've ever caught.
One, two, three.
Damn. [grunting]
Carrying this thing out, this thing weighs a ton.
It just dwarfs the other snakes we've caught recently.
And even the smaller snakes can lay hundreds of eggs.
I can't imagine what this bad boy can do.
Bruce! Bruce!
On an overgrown island deep in the Everglades...
God, I frickin' hate losing a big snake like that.
Yeah?
I know that was a monster snake.
Bill and Tes have spent three hours
pursuing a gargantuan female python
they suspect may be pregnant.
I hate to give up,
but we're all over the place in the brush,
looking around all these trees.
It's extremely important for me to catch a python
that has a bunch of eggs in it.
I wasn't gonna give up until we find this big female.
Ah, it's so thick in here.
Bugs are bad, it's dark.
It's all against us.
-Listen, listen, listen. -What?
-Whoa, right here, right here, -You see it?
Come here! Look at this thing!
A big mother [bleep].
-Is he a female? -Yup. Look.
Oh, my gosh.
That's a big frickin' female.
Bill, oh, my gosh, this is massive.
Oh, yeah.
-Holy crap. -Be real careful.
That thing can strike four feet and nail you.
-Look how huge she is. -Oh, yeah.
She's pregnant, right?
Big female with eggs.
Gotta try and get her tail. Let me see.
Get her to look your way, I can grab it.
Yeah, yeah.
There she is. She's starting to look. Grab that tail.
Ah-ha! Whew.
Okay, okay, okay.
-Whoa! -Look how big she is.
Yeah, she's full of eggs, too.
Aah! God.
Oh, my God.
-This is crazy. -Oh!
Bill, be careful. Bill, watch it.
-God. -Whew.
She's gotta be 14, 15 feet.
Uh! Biggest snake this season.
This is what we needed to find, man.
Whoo!
Get that tail, Bill, get that tail.
Get it, get it, get it.
Aah!
Watch it, watch it, watch it.
Watch it. Oh, my gosh, Bill.
Is that not a snake? Now, that's a snake.
Watch out, she's trying to twist.
This is crazy.
-Look how big she is. -[bleep] She's huge.
That's what we're after.
I bet you she's got 50, 60 eggs in her.
Capturing this 13-foot pregnant female is a huge success
and the perfect way to wrap the season.
Holy crap, this feels so crazy.
Can you imagine if we were doing this by ourselves?
Uh-uh. Watch out now. Watch out.
See how big their mouth can get when they get big?
Whew!
Oh, God. All right, girl, go in there.
Be careful. Watch your hand.
[laughs]
Yeah, look at that! Holy crap.
Now you see why I wanna catch these females?
-We scored today, girl. -Hoo-hoo-hoo.
Saving the Glades.
This big female might've been the last capture of the season,
and I'm pretty happy with that.
You know, we've pulled hundreds of snakes out of here,
and this big female's like the icing on the cake.
-You sure you got it? -Yeah.
I'll guide the way. Watch your step.
God, I cannot believe it.
Back at the remote dry lake bed...
God, I wonder how old this is.
The rocks are old, old limestone.
But what blows my mind,
you see, like, clams
and you see pebbles and seashells,
and all that's embedded in the rocks,
like they would've been on soft mud
and then the mud got petrified.
I don't know how that happened.
Wow.
This is amazing, huh?
I like catching snakes. We saving the Everglades.
I mean, if one of these snakes get away, it could be a female.
That one female lays 40 to 60 eggs every set, you know.
So letting one go,
you got another 60 snakes on your hands.
Look at the size of that thing. Gol.
Pretty eerie, I gotta say.
Pee-wee, Pee-wee, hurry up, right here!
Oh, Lord, look at that thing.
Look, it's all balled up.
Oh, dude, right here, right here.
What?
They got two of them right here.
Okay, you gonna catch those.
You want me to catch this one?
I got one.
Just hurry up and try to get that one.
Oh! Aah!
I'm-a need you over here. Hurry up.
Hold him, hold him. You got him?
I got one, but I got one over here in the rocks.
Okay, I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming.
Hurry up, man.
-Oh, crap. -Oh, hey, where you at?
-Okay, let this one go. -He's under there.
Uh-oh. Oh, I see it.
Wait, I think he's coming back, though.
-I see it. -Coming back out.
He's wedged under this big, big rock.
Hold this. Hold the snake.
Hold him, hold him, hold him.
-You got him? -Yeah.
Aah!
-Okay, all right. -I got him.
Whoo!
Aah. Ay-yi-yi!
Stretch him out, stretch him out.
Aah!
Stretch him out, Pee-wee.
Stretch him out.
Grab him.
Whoo-hoo! [laughs]
Oh, my God.
-Oh... -Oh, my God.
I thought we lost him.
This triple capture
puts Troy and Pickle over 300 Burmese pythons
removed from the Everglades.
Okay, throw yours in there, and then you grab the sack.
I'd have lost that one if you hadn't come over here.
It's been a good year.
I think this is by far our best year ever.
I think it was a good idea for me to bring Pee-wee.
Way to go, baby girl.
I mean, she's just the opposite of me.
I'm old and slow, and she's young and fast.
So, you know, she helped me out a lot
and I tried my best to keep her safe
and we did good.
Dude, three in one spot.
-Lord have mercy. -[laughs] Heavy, huh?
This is a frickin' goldmine.
With python season wrapped...
Here comes the chef.
What do you got?
As the Louisiana hunters get ready to head home,
Dusty puts on a snake 'n bake
to celebrate another successful year
removing these invasive predators.
Y'all in for a treat, bub.
I'm just so blessed to be out here, you know,
and invite the rest of the team over.
It's just awesome to have everybody together.
All right, Bruce got the snake. Let's go.
Get it, get it, get it.
Come on, Dusty, go ahead.
No, you go first.
Age before beauty.
Well, y'all, I'm a newbie here,
but from what I hear, we had a hell of a season, huh?
Damn good season.
It's in my heart to protect the Everglades as much as I can.
This is my backyard.
I grew up here, and it's completely different
now that these pythons have taken over.
We got more snakes this season
than we ever have any other season.
Tes, what you think of that python?
It's, uh, interesting.
They're more fun to catch, right?
Yeah. Don't know if it's my cup of tea, though.
I don't know. It's pretty good, I think.
I ain't never gonna go hungry, though.
[all laugh]
I'm really proud of what we done.
It's not only that we making money,
but it's really helping the environment down here.
That's all we want. We want 'em gone.
We don't care who catches 'em. We just want 'em gone.
Well, it's a team effort.
I think we found more this year than we did last year.
-Yeah. Oh, we did. -With all these teams broke up.
Let's have a toast to the best python season we've had yet.
-All right, I believe it, Bill. -Bring it on in.
I believe it.
Thanks to you and Dusty, we caught a bunch.
-Whoo! -Whoo!
-Good stuff. -Made some money!
Whoo-hoo!
Can't wait till next year.
I don't think we ever gonna run out of snakes down here.
[all laugh]