If anyone ever found 100 kings in one day, we'd all know about it. People like to brag and that high of a number would never go unmentioned. And the collectors that have told their high numbers, was nowhere even close to that. Now why would they tell people it was only 20-25? Somehow only you have this inside source on the true numbers? Yet you don't nor want to provide any evidence of such? I thought this happened years ago and that the numbers are now down because of fire ants as you stated? So why would it matter if we heard who caught that many kings in one day and heard the details about it? Would be very interesting data to say the least. Yet of all the herpers out there today and that have been around, never has this claim been made until now. Wonder why that is.

Here's some facts for you. In Carl Kauffeld's books, never once does he mention anything like the numbers of kings you claim. Carl was herping heavily in the 50's and 60's and if king's were found in that high of numbers, he would have written about it. John Kemnitzer also wrote about finding kings in his book and never had that many finds in one day. And this guy knew how to find kings. More recently, you have Brian Hubbs. Now he has had great success with California Kings and in his book, he states that over a 9 year period he found over 1500 kings. That averages out at about 167 kings per year. Let's say he herped two days a year (which we all know he herps well more than that) but let's go with two days a year to start. That's 83.5 kings per day. But knowing he spends much more time than that, let's make it a week. So in 7 days, that would average around almost 24 kings per day. That's pretty amazing. I know he definitely herps more than one week out of the year so let's go onto two weeks. So in 14 days that would average about 11.9 per day. Still not bad. I would say Brian herps way more than two weeks per year but I think I've made my point. (continued....)

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