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This was a wild caught in the early seventies. cheers

super clean, very nice frank, looks like 277 or hueco??

From whereabouts, Frank?
Todd Hughes

Juno Rd. North of the devils river bridge. I believe, I was the one who put north of the bridge on the map.

I will find pics of a juno rd version of a speckled neck alterna that I caught. Cheers

Nice Frank, looks pretty light too. I was going to guess Juno before I saw your answer. The reasons being it does not look like the River Rds. I've seen and Huecos were just about unheard of back then. It looks alot like 277 (which is close and similar to Juno anyway) but I have heard that very few people hunted 277 until the early 90's. It could also have come from Pandale Dirt or Langtry and I though maybe you were throwing us a fluke from there because there have been a few light alterna morphs from there.
Since I mentioned 277 do you know who hunted there regularly first? I heard that John Hollister hunted it only occasionally when he was going to or from Langtry and occasionally when Langtry was too crowded but it was really Adam Sweetman in the early 90's who popularized the place.

The first person I knew that hunted 277-377 Rocksprings was Earl Turner, late sixties I believe. Of course we hunted all sorts of places, then settled on our individual favorites.

I like Juno, Mayfield range and upper pandale. I did not like Langtry and would only hunt there for one night a trip. Heck, I even hunted the fort hickcock or whatever that fort was, west of ozona. And yes, alterna was found there.

A good friend of mine even hunted Sanderson all the time. I think it had to do with a bar or something. Cheers

You must mean Fort Stockton. Never heard of Mayfield, do you mean Sheffield?
Sanderson is cool. I don't know about then but now there is a 24 hr. gas-mart. The hunting is about 5 minutes from town and when you need a break you can get coffee and snacks and be back hunting in 10 minutes. There is a herper there now that owns a hotel and he always is freindly and has reports of what snakes have been caught so far and where. Alterna have even been found right in town and once I found a lepidus about 200 ft. from the gas station.
Can hardly wait to get out there again.

Mayfield ranch rd. goes from just south of the town(gone) of Juno, to just east of Pandale. There are several hilly sections and a few flat sections that have mexicana.

In fact, I have a silly story from there. I was with Garska(wrote a paper on mex) We photographed a female crossing the road, and later that night, we found a male there. Then another, and the next night another. hahahahahahahahaha.Cheers