The dude holding the snake is my nieghbor he is about 5' 4". he makes the snake look huge. I have seen bigger on the corp land. That is at the state park.
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According to their Facebook page this picture is real, https://www.facebook.com/texasparksandwildlife
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Sunny, I have checked with park staff and this is indeed a genuine photo. This was a 4-5 foot native Western Diamondback who was observed sunning himself on a rock by park visitors who then contacted park staff. Park management responded and humanely removed the snake from near a trail and relocated it to the prairie part of the park without incident. Western Diamondbacks and in fact all snakes in Texas are vital to the natural beauty and wildness of our state parks and natural areas. Incidents involving venomous snakes are quite rare, but visitors should always be vigilant in natural habitats and wear appropriate clothing, boots and long pants when hiking or back-packing the trails. Most snakes are not aggressive and would prefer to be left alone. If you would like to learn more about our native snakes please visit this page on our website:
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If anyone is following that "rattlesnake republic" tv series, i went to high school in taylor with shawn jonas, the last episode they were at granger lake and found 45 snakes on a sand bar!!!i immediately sent him a pm on facebook and told him that i had been hunting granger lake and the san gabriel river for the past 20 years and had only seen only three rattlesnakes out there, i told him he planted the snakes out there for tv!!!he didn't reply!!!!as many times as i have been tracking bloody hogs and deer out there i would have run into one if there was that many snakes at granger, told him that i thought it was cool to see someone i knew on tv but that he and the show were full of it!!!had my buds from taylor call me and tell me the same.....hes full of it!!!but i do like the show.....but that pic of the snake above is real and rattlesnakes get way bigger than that one! Believe it or not i saw one caught over 7 foot near dime box, tx.
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