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Hey, I would have posted this back down where I saw the pic I'm going to refer to, but I thought it was so far down you may never see my post. So here I am. I would like to say that the picture you posted of your Baird's Rat Snake is beautiful. You have a remarkable snake and I'm just wondering if that is an exception to the species or are all Baird's that beautiful?
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2 female Brown Anoles
1 unsexed Green Treefrog
1 male Fire-Bellied Toad
10 Mice
1 ill Cat

I have a feeling you will get alot of inquiries after posting pics of those bairds. I actually just purchased 2.2 bairds b/c of you!!!! Damn you!LOL. They are expected to arrive tommorrow and I'll post pics in another week or so. Also, they are related somehow according to terry/kerns...I'll have to dig up our email conversations to remember how but I'm pretty sure they are.

Well, thanks for sharing your beautiful pics with all of us. I hope that others take interest in the more uncommon, yet beautiful herps so they become more readily available in the future. Anyway, once again, thank you for turning my interests that way. I was actually thinking of getting into rats (and bull snakes) but you just pushed me along that much quicker.lol.

Peace,
Jason
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I also purchased a pair of Bairds from Terry Parks after seeing Draybars gorgeous snakes. I am just starting to see some orange show up between their scales. The female has a really cute little orange nose. I will also take some pics this weekend.
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SpardaWolf
20 Corns,4 Ratsnakes, 1 Ball Python
North American Ratsnake Addict
"Always Learning"

>>For these and any posts I may have missed over the last few days.
Sorry.
I have been on vacation. Fishing in Florida.
OK, now about those bairdis.
The only thing better then see beautiful picks of these snakes is owning a couple. The change as the mature is remarkable.
I love 'em.
And they are cheap too. How can you go wrong. Great temperament, great looks, great feeders at a great price.
By the way I got mine through Renegade reptiles.
Sorry of this is off topic.
Just to make up for it I will post a picture of a corn snake.

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Jimmy (draybar)

We have Florida strain bass here and they just dont strive well up north.Would love to fish Okachobee(sp) for a few weeks in Feb or March.That is one of my dream fishing trips.Peacock bass in the Amazon River would be nice also.Until then I will just have to survive on 3-5 pound smallies that are just about a 30 minute drive from here.

>>We have Florida strain bass here and they just dont strive well up north.Would love to fish Okachobee(sp) for a few weeks in Feb or March.That is one of my dream fishing trips.Peacock bass in the Amazon River would be nice also.Until then I will just have to survive on 3-5 pound smallies that are just about a 30 minute drive from here.

I would give an arm and a leg for a regular dose of 3 to 5lb smallies.
My largest snallie to date is a 3pounder. There are some smallies here, where I live, but they are few and far between.
While in Florida we didn't have that great of a trip but it wasn't terrible.
Although we only caught 30 bass we did have four go over 5lbs.
I caught a 5.1, a 6.0 and a 6.5
my friend/coworker caught a 5.10 and a 5.14
Me with 6.0

me with 6.5

just to keep this on topic a picture of a corn snake...lol

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Remember, My posts are MY opinion only!
Jimmy (draybar)

BY the way
we fished Walk-On-The-Water
great lake.
I have fished the lake a total of six days and have ten or twelve fish in the five's, seven fish in the sixes, two in the sevens and one that was 8 1/2.
My fishing partner has about the same except none in the eight pound range but he did get a 10.15 last trip down a few years ago.
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Remember, My posts are MY opinion only!
Jimmy (draybar)

Sounds like a great trip with 6 pound plus bass.Those are very few and far between here.In 30 years of fishing Ive only caught one bass over 6 pounds.My brother has a just short of 9 pound bass in the freezer waiting for the taxidermist.He caught the monster fishing for catfish in a city park.Go figure.The place I fish for smallies in early March is a l000 acre cooling lake.They have shocked up some smallies in the last few years that will top 7 pounds.Just about a 20 minute drive from that place lurks 37 pound muskies.I havent had much luck with the fish of 10,000 casts.

>>Sounds like a great trip with 6 pound plus bass.Those are very few and far between here.In 30 years of fishing Ive only caught one bass over 6 pounds.My brother has a just short of 9 pound bass in the freezer waiting for the taxidermist.He caught the monster fishing for catfish in a city park.Go figure.The place I fish for smallies in early March is a l000 acre cooling lake.They have shocked up some smallies in the last few years that will top 7 pounds.Just about a 20 minute drive from that place lurks 37 pound muskies.I havent had much luck with the fish of 10,000 casts.

50 more casts and you should get your Muskie....lol
My largest bass is a 9lb 12oz I caught on Stick Marsh in Melbourne Fl. I caught it in '94
My largest here in Tennessee is a 6lb 10oz. I caught it back in '89
I have the 6/10 on the wall and a replica of the 9/12 on the wall.
I am waiting until I can afford to have replicas of the 8/8 and a 7/6 done. (hard to do when all my money goes towards corns...lol)
Then my next will have to be in the 10's or larger.
For some places the 6/10 may not be a trophy but for this area it is most respectable.
I have since caught several more but that first one was a thrill for me.
OK once again I will add a corn pic to keep us on topic

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Remember, My posts are MY opinion only!
Jimmy (draybar)

Yeay...I received my 2.2 bairds from Terry today...I couldn't be happier.
~Jason
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0.1 Solomon Island Ground Boa
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
7.8 Corns (various morphs)
1.1 N. Pines (Pituophis)
0.0.1 N.Diamondback Terrapin