Its gettin cold in Mass, in the 60s and windy. Hunting yesterday I released a clutch of babies and found another 10-12 Eastern milks. Same spot same day last year I found 18. Spots like these dont grown on trees and must be managed by those of us who know them. You have to be VERY careful if you ever take anyone to such a spot, there is a reason for secrecy.

I think the most obvious hunting technique is SUSTAINABLE YIELD. There is nothing wrong with taking a WC once in a while, shoot I would encourage everyone to have at least a couple WC in their collections for new blood. But if you change the habitat you will lose that spot. If there is a pile of shingles DONT hunt til you get to the bottom of it! Peel off a couple layers and set those pieces up nicely FOR NEXT TIME. Come back again and hunt that periphery, but just know that disturbing that whole pile will screw up the whole artificial ecosystem.

So new guys, DONT ASK where we find our stuff, go find your own. Hunt respectfully. If you find someone else's spot treat it as if it were your own. Dont RAPE it. Working SMART not HARD is my credo. Wait for the right conditions when you can find 10 snakes on 1 trip, not 1 snake on 10 trips. Set up spots for the future, knowing that it might be too dry one trip and too wet the next. Learning what conditions to FIND snakes in is a key to keeping them in good shape in captivity too!

I dont take pics in the field, sorry guys. I'd break the camera every time if I took it with me,lol.

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