As pythons ravage South Florida...
Hold on, baby, hold on, hold on!
Hunters prepare to brave the unknown...
The Everglades is very, very dangerous.
It's a nasty place.
Oh, my God. Don't even move, bro.
See anything?
Confronting predators on all sides...
Look how many eyes are back there.
-Stay as close as you can. -Aah!
To conquer the enemy...
-Did you get it? -Oh! Grab it, Ashley!
And save the Everglades.
Yes!
Whoo-hoo!
She's alive, son, she's alive!
Along a canal in the western Glades...
Do you see this vegetation?
-This is perfect. -Yup.
In their relentless pursuit of the pythons,
Troy and Tes are tackling a new corner of the Glades
they've bypassed so far...
There's gonna be a big female in there.
Making a gamble that the serpents
have sought refuge in the area.
We been pushing hard for the last six, seven weeks
to go to new areas, cover as much ground as possible,
hoping to find a few honey holes.
This is what I call snake paradise back here.
They're looking for new places to get food.
We've gotta just keep our head on a swivel
because it's gonna be a new terrain for us.
-Tes. -Yup.
Tes, look at that big tunnel.
Yeah, that's the stuff.
Let's check it out, let's check it out.
And it looks fresh.
Oh, if I was a big snake,
I guarantee I'd be hiding right there.
Oh, yeah, you can see something's going in and out.
I really, really like this area.
Oh, this goes all the way up in here.
I guarantee there's a big female in there.
Look at that, look at that, look at that.
I like this hole, so let's check out this area.
I think there's some stuff to hunt up here.
Yeah, I think you're right.
This looks good.
Oh, yeah, this spot is prime real estate.
You gotta be aware of your surroundings.
This is gonna be nasty for Troy and I to work through,
but we have to do it.
Ooh, man, if I was a snake, this is where I'm gonna hide.
This really looks good here.
Ten miles away...
Oh, girl.
Dusty Crum is planning
for an expedition to one of his favorite
honey holes,
but his boat, The General,
has been out of commission for a few years.
Ooh.
I'll get you going again, though, okay? I promise.
The snakes, they're all laying eggs
up on these islands, man, and I can't get to it
by any other means, the swamp buggies and stuff.
So I gotta get The General up and running fast
so I can hit these islands and get in and get out.
Oh, Lord.
Poor girl. What happened to you?
Daddy ain't been taking care of you, huh?
I mean, she's been sitting in the yard for years, you know,
and I feel bad every time I walk by her.
It's like I kind of try not to look at her, you know,
because I'm embarrassed.
But I'm gonna get her going, son.
We're gonna have one last good adventure, man.
It's time we wake you back up, son.
Battery's about ten years old.
Think I'm gonna need some new speakers.
Man, we got problems.
Ain't got no power nowhere.
Let's see what's going on in here, electrical.
Whoa.
[whistles]
Son, that don't look too hot there, does it?
Yeah, it's my fault.
We gotta redo the fuel system, man.
We're gonna pull that carburetor off,
go through it, get it cleaned up.
I'm gonna pull the spark plugs,
clean them up with some sandpaper,
put her back together, see if she'll fire up.
I'm just borrowing it for a minute. Hang on.
I'll bring it right back.
Yeah, it's this wire right here.
Gas, check.
Wires, plugs on.
I ain't got the switches connected yet,
so I gotta hotwire it.
It all comes down to this right here, son.
And don't try this at home, kids.
[engine starts]
There it goes, baby.
-[revs] -Yeah, baby!
Whoo! Yeah!
She's alive, son, she's alive!
Aah!
Boy, she woke right up, son.
Good morning, sunshine.
Whoo! Yeah!
Oh, yeah, baby.
We'll be hunting snakes in no time.
Further east,
Florida python hunter Kaylyn Glenn
is taking her partner Ashley "Deadeye" Jones
to an area Kaylyn has a personal connection to.
Way out here in the swamp in the '40s and '50s,
my great-grandfather was actually a surveyor.
Walked all through here lining out the boundary.
That is neat. So he just would, like--
When they surveyed, did they use buggies?
-No, walking by foot. -What?
Walking by foot and camping. And no one's really
been back here since,
so I think we'll come across a lot of wildlife,
which means that's where the pythons will be.
It's important to be thinking about new places
these female pythons can be, that no one's thought about.
They are so intelligent, and they are adapting at rates
that I can't even comprehend.
So if we're trying to stop this problem,
we need to try to be a step ahead of them.
Each time we come up with a new way to hunt them,
them snakes are coming up with a new way to avoid us.
They wanna move on
where they're not feeling any pressure.
We just gotta keep hunting new places
every single day and just covering
as much ground as we possibly can.
Ashley, there's a snake, Okay? I don't want her
going to the water. I'm gonna go the right.
-Go to the left, okay? -Where? Where, where, where?
There's a snake right here, right here.
Oh, her head's out here.
You need me to grab her, I can. You just tell me.
No, no, no, I got her.
-I can't see good. -Okay.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay.
-Here she comes, here she comes. -Your side or my side?
She's coming out.
She's coming out your side or my side?
-She's coming out your side. -Okay.
-Whoa! Hold on. -Okay.
-Okay, okay. -Wait, hold on.
Hold on, hold on, Kaylyn, hold on.
Let me get up here to her. Hold on.
-You got it? You got it? -Yeah. Hold on.
Whoa! Good job, good job!
-Oh, my gosh. -You got her?
-Yeah... hold on. -Okay. Whoo!
For Ashley, this ten-footer is
a great sign that Kaylyn was correct
in her hunch to cover this area.
That's a beautiful snake. Look how fat she is.
It is a beautiful snake. Yup.
Look at that.
Wow.
There's big snakes here,
there's not a lot of people hunting 'em,
and we have access to it.
All right, we ready to drop her off at the buggy?
Come on, big mama.
Eleven miles away...
Hold on, baby, hold on, hold on!
Dusty and The General
are charging into a python stronghold.
Yeah, man, it's been a little bit since I've been
on The General, man. She's running so good now, man.
She's running like a whole pack of bottle rockets
with the fuse tied together. It's like trying to drive
a freaking dragstrip on ice.
You're just right on top of the water scooting across.
Where you at, big mama?
Think I'm gonna check this one here.
Well, the strategy today, man, is to hit up these islands.
I can kind of play island leapfrog
with The General and pop in and out of them.
Yeah, these islands are high and dry,
so the big female pythons, they like to go
to the high spots to lay their eggs.
Whew.
It's a good shady spot in here.
The snakes will come out here and get out of the sun.
The big, big females
will come in here and lay their eggs.
It's so thick.
You just gotta really look and take your time.
Come on, big mama, where you at?
Where you at, mama?
It's game time.
Holy cow! Whoa!
Oh!
On a cypress wooded island in the Glades...
It's game time.
Dusty pursues a python.
Oh!
Aah!
Whoo!
Yeah, baby!
This six foot juvenile
is not the breeding female Dusty came here for,
but it will still bring in close to $600.
Son!
Whoo-hoo!
Oh, baby.
We did it, man. We did it.
Aah!
Pretty good island right here, I bet you
there's probably some more.
This is great, dude. It couldn't have worked out
any better, but I ain't done yet.
Me and The General, son, we're reunited,
and it feels so good.
General, I knew you wouldn't let me down.
Twenty-seven miles east,
Florida native Aaron Crum is taking
his hunting partner Zak Catchem
to an area he believes will turn out to be
a major python hotspot.
I'm gonna take you to a place called Bad Luck Prairie.
I know, I know, it sounds odd, but...
there's a lot of native animals that are here.
So you know what that means. Food source.
What makes Bad Luck Prairie a good place is because
it's a place full of food for these snakes to eat
and lay their eggs. They're so hungry right now
before they have one last meal before they lay these eggs,
so this is gonna be a prime time spot
for us to find these pythons.
It's just right up here on the left a little.
It has "bad luck" in the name.
Like, why would we go back here?
I don't know, but I gotta give him a chance,
I mean, he knows this area pretty well
We'll figure it out. I trust my partner.
Yeah, man, Bad Luck Prairie.
You ever been back here?
Well, not really.
Damn. Out of all the places, Aaron.
It's new terrain.
Keep your eyes open right here.
Ugh. You smell that?
God.
God, it's getting stronger and stronger right here.
Man, it smells like something died back here.
What the hell?
Oh, my God, look at that.
-One, two... -Those are pythons.
There's no snake that big out here.
Three, four. Gotta be a python.
Look how many there are.
-Holy cow. -Something's hunting 'em.
Wow.
Someone or something is hunting pythons back here, dude.
Finding this many dead pythons is not normal.
I'm thinking that people must've done this.
I don't think any predator that lives down here
in Florida would do something like this.
It doesn't make sense.
It's gotta be other hunters.
It looks like there's a trail where this is all laid out.
Looks like it keeps going that way, huh?
Let's just keep going.
I think we might be able to find something out here.
I mean, it's getting deep.
Zak, right here, right here, right here!
Right here, right here!
Come on, come on, come on.
-Damn it! -Right here, right here.
I'm cutting them off. Come on, go, go.
-Put a hand on it... -Go to the other side, Zak!
Put a hand on it. Put a hand on it. Come on!
Oh! Oh!
Are you on the other side? I don't see it.
-No, I'm right next to you. -I don't see it anymore.
[bleep]!
It's too thick in there. I just saw the tail end,
about that long that went right in there.
Let's walk around this way and just circle back.
We might be able to cut it off.
We're gonna find that thing. It can't be too far.
In a patch of highlands in the western Glades...
It's really dry.
I think it's too dry and too hot right here.
Troy and Tes are facing a challenge.
I'm not seeing no trails.
-Uh-uh. -I'm not seeing nothing.
We've been searching for hours.
You get a little upset when you're not seeing anything
and you're like, why are we doing this?
Look at this big log.
This could be a jackpot right here.
See anything?
Nope. I don't see nothing, I don't smell nothing.
I think we wasting our time here.
All right.
Let's get a game plan. What we doing?
Well, work our way back to the water, hunt a new route,
but then just head back to the boat
and we can just relocate.
Oh.
When it's dry out here, those pythons
will navigate to those larger bodies of water
or that collection of water
to continue hunting and to continue surviving.
And if it's un-huntable, you gotta keep moving
because that's valuable time.
The captain's a little slow.
Oh, the captain's not a little slow.
A lot slow.
The captain's very slow.
Mucho slow.
Twenty-one miles south...
Come on.
Along a stretch of swamp islands,
Dusty and his old boat The General
have already captured a male python.
Caught one pretty good snake, you know.
I mean, some people just might fold up right now
and go on home with what they got.
But not me, man. I'm looking for the prize, man.
I'm gonna keep pushing and pushing
and try to get one more in the boat
before I get out of here.
[engine dies]
Whoa. Uh-oh.
[engine won't start]
Oh, not now, not now.
Along a string of Everglades islands...
Oh, not now, not now.
Dusty is in trouble.
Dude, if I have to paddle back, that's gonna be a long day.
I ain't got a phone, nothing, dude.
Come on, General, what happened to you, girl?
It's like something shorted out in there.
I ain't got no tools.
Seems like some kind of an electrical problem, man.
This could be bad news.
If I can't get that General back up and running,
I'm screwed, man. I'm in for a long, hard night.
Fuse is blown.
Hopefully somebody'll come along, a fisher or somebody.
Otherwise we gonna be sleeping out here tonight.
In a mysterious part of the Everglades
first surveyed decades ago by Kaylyn's great-grandfather...
Make sure I don't slap you in the face.
-You got it? -Yeah. Thank you.
Kaylyn and Ashley are starting to feel unsettled.
My great-grandfather on my maternal side,
he was the very first person to be out here
surveying the boundaries of Collier County.
He walked it by foot.
He had his camp in his pack.
He was a very religious, spiritual man,
and he has some insane stories
about the things he ran into out here.
Hey, what's that? Is that a bucket?
What in the world?
Look. Look at these.
Walking sticks or some sort of structure someone's built.
Look, they've got a little burn pit.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Look at this.
We've got another rope and a shovel.
Look at the other end, how creepy that looks.
I know, I know. Look at that.
That's very concerning.
I mean, like, I'm legitimately nervous
about what all this stuff is right here.
Well, and look at all this, too. This was all cut down
and piled up. This is not natural.
No matter how big our storms get down here,
they don't pile brush up like this.
It's kind of spooky.
-It's real spooky. -Seeing how...
Look at the feathers on the tree.
Yeah. I've been in a lot of woods out here,
and there's nothing like this that happens naturally.
So creepy.
Hey, look at this.
Oh, wow. I wanna see what's in this cooler.
Somebody didn't just do this to stay for a couple days.
No, no, no, no. Someone's out here,
spending a lot of time out here.
-Oh, wow. -What?
This looks like somebody's living out here.
There's gloves, looks like an extra t-shirt.
This is like somebody committed a crime, and they need to be
-hiding from the law. -Yeah.
Well, you know that's what the Everglades
is infamous for.
Nobody coming through these camps.
You can't see flying above. That's what I'm saying.
These camps are where you can't see.
-Yup. -And this is a refuge for 'em.
All right, let's close this.
The Everglades really for the longest time
was like a no man's land. There were so many criminals
that would come out here to hide from the law.
I think we should probably go on out.
Yeah. I don't wanna stay here longer than I have to.
Twelve miles south...
[engine stalling]
Hunting in a remote python honey hole,
Dusty's boat The General has broken down,
stranding them in the middle of the Everglades.
It just died. It's like it ain't getting a spark.
I'll make a fuse out of this piece of wire
to make that connection.
There's more than one way to fix something.
I mean, for the fuse, for example,
you know, you can take it
and wrap a little piece of tinfoil around it
or a chewing gum wrapper, you know.
All you gotta do is make that connection.
I'll put... I'll put it on there like that.
Jam it in there.
See if it'll make the connection.
All right, please, baby.
Start up, please.
-[engine starts] -Yo!
Whoo!
Rock and roll, baby.
That was spookier than hell.
Just had the world crashing down around me.
I had thought I was gonna be screwed, stranded out here.
Got The General fired back up.
She's sparking. She's running on all two cylinders, son.
We're ready to go.
This looks like a good one right here.
I'm gonna hit this one.
Mm.
Python! Python!
Whoa!
On an island in the Glades...
Whoa!
Dusty faces off with a python.
Whoa, she's mad.
I got her.
Oh, watch it.
Backing me up against the tree.
Aah!
Turn your back on me.
Whoo!
Yeah, that's how we do it, baby.
Boy, that's a good one.
Despite the mechanical problems
that almost derailed his hunt,
the two pythons Dusty caught today
will bring in well over $1,000
another success for him and The General.
I wish there was some kind of way I could make
The General run on solar or something, man,
because, I mean, if I had a bigger gas tank
or some more fuel, I'd be running that sucker
all night long.
But we got two big pythons, females,
out of the ecosystem, I think that's a win.
General, I knew you wouldn't let me down.
We did it!
Ha!
Deep into the night...
I lost that trail, Tes.
-It was just over here. -I don't see the trail no more.
Troy and Tes are still looking for their first snake.
We haven't found any snakes yet, but we know we getting close
because they got trails everywhere you look.
Sometimes they get away from you, especially at night.
They get away from us during the day,
and at night it's a lot easier for them to get away from us.
Oh, I'm back on the trail, Tes.
-You see it? -I'm back on the trail, yup.
I'm gonna hang out here a bit, though.
-I found the trail again. -Okay.
This is a big trail.
Keep your eyes open.
She's gotta be out here.
Tes, Tes, Tes!
-There's one here? -Right in here somewhere.
-Where, where, where? -Right in here.
It looked like a big one, too.
...so thick in here. You see it?
I can't get into this stuff.
Don't tell me we're gonna lose it.
-I can't see anything. -Going this away, I just saw--
--I just saw the size, like a part of it.
-Back down here? -Tes, it had to come this way.
Oh, man.
That snake could be anywhere now.
There's no way a big snake like that could disappear.
Come on.
It was no more than ten feet in front of me,
and how it got away I have no idea.
Fourteen hours into their hunt,
Troy and Tes are still empty-handed
but refuse to give up.
Staying positive out here can be hard,
but, you know, these snakes aren't gonna catch themselves
and turn themselves in, so we gotta go do it.
Let's keep looking.
Deep in Bad Luck Prairie...
It's been marshy for a while, Aaron.
Zak and Aaron are also seeking their first catch.
This place is definitely gonna be a hotspot for snakes.
I mean, they're subaquatic animals,
and it is so wet out here
they're definitely traveling these waters.
There's gonna be animals out here that can hardly
get away because we can hardly even walk,
so this is gonna be a prime spot to catch a python.
So hopefully all these leg cramps
of getting stuck in the mud are gonna pay off.
Aaron, look at that, man.
Look how many eyes are back there.
Nothing but gator eyes.
Holy hell.
Man, they're everywhere.
You're looking at the ground the whole time,
and when you finally look up
and you're looking at nothing but gator eyes, man,
that can lead into a very scary situation,
especially knowing there's only two of us out here.
Keep your eyes peeled.
Just stay close.
That money is slithering though here, baby. Come on.
Right here, right here, right here, right here.
I see it. Aah! Oh!
I see it. I got the tail.
Come on, Zak, come on, come on.
-Get his head, I can't see it. -Where? Where?
I can't see it. I don't know how big it is.
-All I can see is his tail. -Let me see if I can get around.
God, this is a big snake.
It goes all the way down here, Aaron.
Okay, pass me, and then you go
back there and grab it.
-I got it, got it, got it. -You got it?
-Go run back, run. -I see it, I see it.
Grab its head and pull her out.
Come on, I got the tail.
There you go, Aaron.
-There's the head right there. -Whoa!
Aaron, don't let her hit me.
Yeah, she's pissed off. Watch out.
Whoa!
Watch yourself, Zak.
Watch out, he's coming right at me.
Now, now, right there, ready?
Yup, do it, do it.
Oh! This thing is crazy.
-Sawgrass got me. Aah! -Did you get cut?
-Aah! Come on. -Watch yourself.
This monster python is full of eggs
and will bring in well over $1,000 after processing.
Good job. Good job.
Got her out. Yeah, come on.
-Whoo. -Good job, Aaron.
Aaron and I are gonna use my truck
to leapfrog from section to section
and clear out as many pythons as we possibly can.
That's ten foot, easy.
Meanwhile...
-[dog barks] -Geesh, you hear that?
Ashley and Kaylyn continue their search
for a second python in a remote area of the Glades.
But they continue to run across strange settlements.
I hope they're not wild, loose.
They seem close.
Very close.
It sounds like these dogs
are basically set up in some kennels,
and those are typically hunting dogs.
They usually have a job,
and they're only let out to go do their job.
Dogs are never happy when they're surprised
and they can't get to what they're barking at.
Oh, here's a building.
-[dogs bark] -Jeez, they're so loud.
What kind of thing is this?
Some sort of torture device?
I'm not feeling great about it.
In the dead of night...
Oh, here's a building.
Ashley and Kaylyn have made a disturbing discovery.
What kind of thing is this?
Some sort of torture device?
Lord.
This is creepy.
My guard is up, I'm worried, we're super vulnerable.
The more we keep walking, it gets more and more eerie,
and you can just start feeling this level of discomfort.
Ashley was getting a little nervous.
It feels like setting up something
for a horror movie out here.
Yeah, let's get the hell out of here.
One thing that I know is that somebody's here,
so if I put myself in their shoes
and somebody's just walking around my property at night
with a light, I'm gonna think that they're up to no good.
So I'm ready to get out of here
and get back on our side of the fence.
This brush is so thick.
You can barely see through it.
Kaylyn, there's a snake.
-A snake? -There's a snake, yeah.
Grab it, Ashley!
-Try to stop it. -Hold on.
-Did it go through there?
Yeah.
Go around. See if you can go around.
You're not coming through here.
I'm coming around the other way.
Damn it!
Where you at?
Right here. I lost it, Kaylyn, I lost it.
It went straight through there.
Let's look under everything.
It was just right here.
How big? Am I looking for a small one?
-No, this is a big, big python. -A large one?
Okay, so it can't move too fast.
No, I think we scared it and she was moving fast,
like, trying to get away from us.
Don't give up yet.
This is an absolute just leaf litter mess.
Knowing these snakes are here doesn't make you feel
any better because they're so hard to find.
There's a reason that there's not a lot of people
out here doing this. This is a hard job
and, as exhausted as I am,
I know that we have to keep pushing through.
We're on a time crunch.
Let's go.
Later that night...
-Watch your step. -Yeah.
Zak and Aaron press further into Bad Luck Prairie.
Man.
Oh, my God.
What is it?
Don't even move, bro.
Don't even freaking move.
There's a massive honeycomb right here.
Holy cow.
I don't wanna disturb that at all.
Don't even shine your light on that thing.
Dude, don't kill it, don't kill it,
don't kill it, don't kill it, don't kill it.
That's incredible.
That is ridiculous.
Look, we're just gonna walk back the way we came.
Let's just get the hell out of here.
You have to be really careful in the night.
We came across a big beehive, and...
and when you do that, if you make the wrong move
and accidentally stepped on it or bumped it,
we would've been running for the hills.
You do not want to get stung out here in the nighttime,
especially if you're allergic.
We're so far out here, we have nobody
that we can contact.
I think we walked back a little farther
-than we thought. -My light went out.
Forget to charge that thing?
Of course I didn't forget to charge it.
They stay plugged in.
Man, I don't know what's wrong with this.
Mine just went out, too.
Maybe they don't last as long
as what they say they're supposed to.
Wait, my headlamp's out?
It's not working at all.
That's why we shouldn't be out here, man.
I don't know what's going on, but all we have is your
one headlight, and we got a lot of gators around us, man.
We gotta start moving fast, Zak.
-Just stay as close as you can. -Yeah, I'm right behind you.
I don't know what's going on around here.
This place is so damn weird, man.
-I hate coming back here. -Hell, no.
All we have is Aaron's tiny headlamp
to guide us all the way back through the gator eyes,
through the swamp, and through the one little trail
that we came back from.
It's not a safe situation, and we need to get out of here.
My boots just keep getting stuck.
Stay close to me.
As the sun begins to rise...
We gotta find that clearing.
After hunting through the night,
Troy and Tes still have no captures
and are nearing their physical limit,
but they're determined to push themselves a little more.
It's too dark down here, so we gotta get up there.
We gotta find that clearing.
It's very important never to give up.
You just gotta keep pushing and keep pushing,
especially when you're snake hunting.
-You think you can do it? -Yeah. Absolutely.
You sure? Without hurting yourself?
-Yeah, I'm fine. -You don't want your hat?
No.
Come on. You gotta climb.
-If you gonna climb, come on. -Okay.
-Step on my knee right there. -Okay.
Grab them two branches. Now go.
There you go, there you go.
Take your time.
-Just take your time. -All right.
It should be-- if I'm not mistaken,
it should be there or there.
Yeah, we're gonna wanna head this way.
You see the clearing? You think you see the clearing?
-Oh, no, I can see it for sure. -Okay, good.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah... yep. -Come on down. Come on.
Now we good. If you see the clearing, I know where we at.
All right, you ready? I'm gonna jump, one-two-three.
Listen, be careful-- I don't wanna have to carry you
out the woods.
Tes, she surprised me.
She can climb a tree, them long legs.
Don't let her fool you.
We need to try to get out of here.
Tes! Tes! Hurry up.
-Where? -What? She's here,
-I just seen one go in here. -Where? You saw its tail?
-What, its head? -I saw the tail.
It didn't look like a big, big one,
-but it was one for sure. -Where?
I don't see him in here, though.
I just seen it. Gotta be right in here somewhere.
I caught a glimpse of it coming into
this nasty stuff right here.
-Ah, dang. -Damn.
I don't like this. I hate losing them.
Oh, man, it's so dirty.
We could be standing right on him, we wouldn't even know.
We have a lot of days where we work hard,
and we don't catch nothing, but that's part of the game.
And it makes you wanna give up, but you know in your heart
that you gotta just keep pushing and keep pushing.
Thirty miles away...
Big old thorns.
-You okay? -Yeah, I just wanna
look down in the side of this.
Ashley and Kaylyn do a final sweep
on their way back to their buggy,
determined to bag another breeder.
Well, I'm not leaving without a python.
All right, let's carry on.
Kaylyn and I have been hunting and hunting
and giving it all we've got,
and I'm just absolutely exhausted.
I'm definitely not ready to quit.
We've got a lot of ground to check,
and I think it's worth our time concentrating on it.
Oh, yeah, here's a hole right here, Kaylyn.
-A hole? -Yeah.
How big?
Oh, my God, it's a really good one.
Oh, my gosh.
Look how good that is.
Here, I've got a flashlight. See if you can see
-anything reflect with it. -Okay, yeah, thanks.
Does it look pretty active?
This is definitely big enough to have a big python in there.
Oh, I think I felt something that gave me some give.
Okay, there's something in here.
In the Everglades...
Oh, my God, it's a really good one.
Ashley and Kaylyn have found
a potential snake hole.
Okay, there's something in here.
I'd bet more than likely it's a python.
You see a snake?
...and the eggs have already hatched.
What are the chances of that?
-The chances pretty high. -Really?
-Yup. Where'd you see the snake? -It's right there.
-It's still sitting there. -I wanna see how much
I can reach at this angle because you're bending
your arm back through.
Ooh, felt a little squishy.
There's a lot of things that I didn't know
was gonna be required to snake hunt.
You just can't see it. Can you see it?
Oh, yeah, check him out.
Yeah, definitely not a python.
Think we've reached the end our hole.
Amazing hole, but if there was
a python that was in here, it's out looking for lunch.
What about if we sit here and wait on it to come back?
I think spending too much time here
is just gonna be a waste of our day.
And this is a good area. This looks good,
I think if we find another hole, that might be our snake.
Even though the hunters need to call it a day
after almost 24 hours of hunting,
the python they captured yesterday
makes the hunt worth the effort.
Snaking ain't easy, but it is a heck of a lot easier
with a good teammate you can rely on.
I'm hopeful.
-Got your light? -Yup.
Further east...
We gotta get across here, man.
After surviving the night trek across Bad Luck Prairie
with a single headlamp,
Zak and Aaron face another obstacle.
Yeah, we're stuck on this side right now.
We gotta get across it,
go back to the truck with whatever we catch
and make it out of here safely.
You think we can make it across that?
I think so.
This river's just getting wide.
Yo, what is that?
Look over there. That's a snake, right?
I don't know.
I can't tell from here, but you might be able
to see from higher up.
Don't slip up there.
Huh.
That's a snake. It's over there, straight across the river, man.
If we can get across, we can get our hands on that snake.
I'm coming back down.
There's a tree down on the water.
I think we can across down there, Zak.
Okay, let's bang it. Come on.
Oh, my God.
Watch out.
That part of the log is underwater.
The bark is loose, too.
Oh, yeah, it is.
Whew!
Just bust through that.
We made it over here. Come on, let's go get that snake.
Zak, right here, right here, right here! Right here!
Right here! Come on, come on, come on!
I'm cutting them off, I'm cutting them off. Oh!
Oh, my gosh, she's going in the bushes, Zak.
I'm coming.
I got her, I got her, I got her.
It's right here. Pull her out, pull her out.
Oh, she's right on you, Zak.
Whoa!
Watch yourself, Zak!
I got her. I got her completely.
She's eyed up on me.
Don't let her hit me, but get her.
-Damn! -Get her when you can.
-Go ahead. -Come on, whoa.
There it is, Aaron-- yeah, yeah, do it.
Ahh, look at that.
You got some fast hands, cowboy.
-Look at that. -Come on now.
Whoo! Whoo.
Despite the challenges in Bad Luck Prairie,
this nine-foot male, their second of the hunt,
gives Zak a sense of accomplishment.
When my team comes together like this,
we got this bad boy, and I'm really happy about it.
Ah, let's get out of here.
In a part of the swamp once surveyed
by Kaylyn's great-grandfather...
[sighs] It's always nice relaxing
after trekking through the woods.
Ashley and Kaylyn take a quick break
before heading back home.
I have a tradition of where I always
pack cookies everywhere I go.
-Interested? -Oh.
Thank you.
I'm definitely a milk dunker. It's my favorite.
Oh, yeah, if I had milk, it'd be over with.
I definitely miss being out here without my son.
See all the little things he'd want to pick up and mess with.
I can't even talk about my kids. You'll have me over here
in big old alligator tears.
Yeah. We oughta bring 'em out together.
Plan a little trip.
Yeah. Imagine if we aren't doing what we're doing right now,
they won't have much to come out here and enjoy.
Mm-hmm. It's important too to get the other,
you know, the next generation connected to stuff like this.
Otherwise, if they don't care,
they're not gonna do anything to protect it.
Here we go.
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All right, let's go and head on out.