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This PIC is going around the internet. One site says 8 feet and 89 pounds.

If it's true the snake would be dead now anyway with a tiny hook around it's neck; supporting all "89" lbs of it.

i seriously doubt that that snake weighed 89 pounds and it probaly wasent quite 8 ft but the size depicted in the pic is not unreasonable..it looks like a edb to me and they have been known to get very large..definitely a possibility..but as joey said that snake would be dead by now or if not have a broken neck.

Actually I know it is a dark pic and the snake is large which suggests C. adamanteus...but if you look closer (especially at the tail) it certainly looks like a western (C. atrox).

it looks to be a 15 to 20 pound atrox iv collected specimens in upton county as large it is not 8 feet long but over 6 this is not common but texas record is 87 inches but atrox all the way

Yes I've seen it and dismissed it. It's an atrox a little fatter than you usually see but maybe about 6 feet.

It's most likely one he keeps and power feeds it. This is why it's a fat one.
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Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints.

As a photographer I've doctored alot of pictures and have seen this picture alot. Someone sent this pic to me to see if the hook goes thru the neck of the snake and it doen't but while looking at this picture closely i notices that the colors don't match up in some spots and if you look in the background the billboard is very very unlevel. and i don't know where this picture was taken but in florida and Wisconsin we try to put things up level. My belief is that this picture is doctored. And if you believe this picture i have a very rare bright Orange and green pigmy rattlesnake. lol.

>>As a photographer I've doctored alot of pictures and have seen this picture alot.

I have to agree with you on this. I took a good look at it and its just not adding up. Its obvious whatever was really on that hook,,,,if anything at all, was not really heavy. I am thinking he took the pic of himself holding the hook.. tried to make it look like he had somethig heavy on it. Then took the pic of the snake and put it over the hook. If you look at where the hook is place also, you see he messed up there cause its in the wrong spot to be holing that snake up like that anyhow. I belive the snake was a big one...but not THAT big. Its all doctored.
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Crazy ZooLady

That is one corn fed Tx atrox!!

I kinda thought it was doctored as well but had no basis on which to justify it. What clued me in was the completely unatural response to such a big snake on such a little hook around the neck. The only way it would hold still is if it were dead or sedated, and then it would be limp. I was thinking it was stuffed or something. The man is also using suprisingly little effort to hoist the snake. (opinion of course, but I know I wouldn't hold the hook that way with a big lug on the end)