15 timbers found in the pines!!

I try to stay out of the herping discussions because I really don't know much about it; however, I am always amazed and skeptical that I rarely see photo's of these finds. What red blooded snake hunter would not be proud of a photo of themselves with the catch of the day, and in this persons recap there were quite a few catches.

Anyone else feel this way, especially those of you who do this?

Guy
 
Before i even clicked on the link, i was going nuts. 14-15 TIMBER RATTLERS. AND 5 PINE SNAKES. That's unheard of!!! But i was really, really, REALLY disapointed when i didn't see any photos what so ever. He said the story will be in the reptiles magazine, my friend gets those in, so i'll check em out and look. Hopefully the magazine has some of HIS pics in there.
 
unless I see a picture of something I'm skeptical. Anytime I catch anything I take a picture of it even if it is a green frog. So not seeing a picture I become skeptical. However, I did ask the guy to email me some of the pictures of his expedition, so we'll see. He says he has a presentation of it though.
 
dragoncjo said:
unless I see a picture of something I'm skeptical. Anytime I catch anything I take a picture of it even if it is a green frog. So not seeing a picture I become skeptical. However, I did ask the guy to email me some of the pictures of his expedition, so we'll see. He says he has a presentation of it though.
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Hey, C.J.O'N (Dragoncjo),

Did you get an e-mail message confirming that this fellow was, indeed, talking about the NJ Pine Barrens? That website is from an East Texas herp group. When I lived in Texas and heard the local herp enthusiasts talk of herping in "the pines", they were usually referring to the "Lost Pines", what we on this list would recognize as a patch of southern NJ displaced into Texas east of San Marcos. I heard that canebrakes and even the rare pine snake might be found there, but never spent enough time there to claim that I'd even scratched the surface ... but I saw no rattlers or pinesnakes, just a Lindheimer's rat snake and a coachwhip. A goodly part of the Sam Houston State Forest east of Huntsville was also a place to see "the pines" and do some herping.

However, if he really WAS talking about the NJPB's then I figured, if his account were true, then his trip was probably in mid- to late September and he had run onto a hibernaculum where the winter population was accumulating and communally sunning on warm days - but in August? That's amazing and, I must say, stretches credulity.

Dave
 
dragoncjo said:
I saw this on kingsnake.com it is a recap of a guys herping trip in the pines, he says he found 14-15 timbers and five pine snakes in a day and a half trip. Wow
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=921844,922565
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Just a followup to my previous comment.

The kingsnake.com site has an ad from an East Texas Herp group, but my conclusion that the site is from a Texas group is probably unwarranted.

I went back in the thread on that kingsnake.com list and found that they really are talking about the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Astounding!

Here's some more detail from "EJ" who seems to be the fellow who made the trip:

"Posted by: EJ at Thu Oct 13 18:28:56 2005
Any undeveloped land in the SE 1/3 of the state is prime hunting. If you are just photographing there is an area called Bass River State Forest. Find a topo map and hit the cranberry bogs that border the forested areas. Be cautious of private property and state Fish and Game. Make sure you know the laws because I've been told they can be nasty but every encounter I've had with them they were very courteous. Good luck."

Dave
 
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