00:00Well, good morning everybody. It's another beautiful day. I'm going to go out and catch
00:25some catfish. We've just got kind of a relaxing day today. And it's a good thing too because
00:31tomorrow is going to be crazy. I accidentally double booked two charters in one day. I'm
00:36going fishing from like early morning until early afternoon. And then I'm going python
00:42hunting from early afternoon until like the next morning. So I'm going to be up for about
00:4824 hours fishing and hunting. And I think I'm going to be exhausted. So today is going
00:55to be low key. Look at this. They make runs. With a nice little bend in the rock. Alright,
01:25there's one. Yes. Come to daddy. Another mangrove snapper. My rod just went over my Japanese
01:39rod. That's a $200 rod and reel combo and I can see it. It's floating. I wanted to jump
01:45in but there's no ladder on this dock. If I jump in, I cannot get back up here. There
01:51is no ladder. There isn't a single dock on this whole side of the canal that has a ladder
01:59on it. I didn't loosen the drag enough. That is the first rod I've ever lost that way.
02:06That is the first rod I've ever lost from a fish stealing it. The warm embrace of your
02:21bosoms is the only thing I can do. I love you. Well, the fishing's picked up but I find
02:30that I've been emotionally devastated by losing my rod. And it's helped me refocus on what's
02:35important in my life. So, I'm going to go swimming with the kids. Okay, here I come.
03:05Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
03:35You know, it's really good to see the boys learning how to swim without their life vests.
03:50You know, I try to be so careful with them always in their life vests when we go fishing. But you
03:55know, eventually they're going to fall in. It's going to happen one day. They're going to really
03:59fall in and it's nice to know that they can swim. A little redundancy isn't a bad thing. Well, I'm
04:04glad I took a little break and took the opportunity to mourn the loss of my fishing rod and play with
04:09my children. But I'm going to see if we can't pick up a few more here and see what we can find, okay?
04:19Look what just happened. I just broke about six inches off the tip of my $125 Nash Scope.
04:29What happened is I was trying to pull some line out to work with as I tied it
04:33and this line got caught, okay? The drag's off, so it should have just pulled out. But because
04:40the line was wrapped around there, when I pulled it, it got stuck and it snapped the tip off.
04:47So I have now lost one imported Japanese rod and reel combo and I've now broken
04:55my British telescopic fishing rod. Oh.
05:03Yeah, hey babe, where you at? We're on Sanibel Island. Okay, when you get back, I'm going to
05:08need another hug. Oh no, what happened? Oh, keep your rod up. Keep your rod up, bud.
05:14He's, he's, hold on. I gotta, I gotta land a fish, babe. Love you. Don't let go of the
05:20rod. It's the only one I got left. No. I'm glad you guys are hanging out with me while I fish.
05:28It's fun. Here, hold your apple. Go work. Oh yeah, he got him. He got him.
05:42There we go. Well, it's the end of another wonderful day and what better way to end
05:46than with barbecue. Yes. So, uh, we're gonna eat up and then I'm getting to bed early because
05:53tomorrow I have got a long day that includes fishing for sheephead and wrestling pythons
05:59at night in the swamp. So, all right, see you guys in the morning. Good morning, everybody.
06:066 30 in the morning and me and Tommy are the only ones up. I was getting up, making myself some
06:11breakfast, getting ready to sneak out to go do a sheephead fishing charter and Tommy, uh,
06:19hey dad, can I come with you? Yeah. I said, you know what? Come on, let's go.
06:27It's gonna be crazy. Yeah, I was like to try to catch them. All right, me and Tommy,
06:33we're getting ready to meet John. We're gonna go out again, but this time we're gonna be
06:36aiming for some sheep's head. We're gonna try to do a little catch and cook video here.
06:41Excited, buddy. All right, take a seat, bud. It's a beautiful day, John. Awesome, baby.
06:49You excited to go catch a sheep's head? If we're real lucky, we might catch the whole sheep.
06:59He's come here.
07:10Look, some manatees. They just went underwater, but there's some manatees right there.
07:14Trying to keep the line still, but tight. Okay. And if you feel like a little tap, tap, tap, tap
07:20on your rod, you let me know. Real, real, real, real, real, real, real,
07:26real. Oh, there you go, bud. Real hard. Pick up, pick up. He's got a good one. There it is.
07:38Yeah, good job. All right, hold him over here. Here, watch, step backwards.
07:45Oh, look at that. I want to see his teeth. All right, all right, good job. You did it,
07:53you got him out of the tree. Good, look at that. That's a pretty fish. Look at that,
07:59right in the corner of the mouth. Great job, buddy. Say, hi. That looks just like yours.
08:08See, look at the bottom ones. They're perfectly straight. And that's how they eat the oysters,
08:16and they spit the clams out. They got crushers in their mouth. See, if you look in there,
08:20you see him. It kind of looks like Freddy. It kind of looks like Freddy.
08:23Oh, look at that. It kind of looks like Freddy. This hand is stuck in there. I can't barely
08:29move it, see? Here, help me. Here, just bend the hook.
08:37Oh, nice. Oh, big snapper. Yeah, look at that. Yeah, I think he might even be a keeper. He is
08:43a keeper. So this is a mangrove snapper or a gray snapper, and this is a pretty decent size one. The
08:49minimum limit is 10 inches. He's a big old boy, but check out the teeth on these guys. He has
08:57pointy fangs. Tommy, there's a dolphin. Right over there, see right there? There's a dolphin.
09:04See him right there? Oh, look, there's one right here. He just went right under the boat.
09:13Probably the same two we saw the other day. Those dolphins are fast. They just went ripping right
09:17past us, but it's only like three feet of water, so you can see them really well.
09:21Yeah, look at this little piece of meat. That's really, really nice right there. Oh, that looks
09:25like a crappie, man. All right, man. I had a ball. Thanks so much, man. Yeah, I appreciate it.
09:32This is lovely, man. This is December. I can't believe it. Yeah, I know. It's good stuff.
09:37All right, man. You take care. Appreciate it. I got to go wrestle a snake, man. I'll get him.
09:40All right, Tommy, you ready to go see mama? Hi. Hi, baby. You look pretty awesome. Thanks
09:48for sending the photos. Hi, Jacob. Hi, buddy. Now I'm heading off to the Everglades. I'm going to
09:54be meeting a guy by the name of Mike out to go hunt Burmese pythons all night long. To say I'm
10:01excited is a gross understatement. We better get going, though. I have two and a half hours to
10:06drive. Well, guys, I haven't eaten lunch, and I'm going to need dinner, second dinner, midnight
10:12snack, probably an early breakfast, then actual breakfast. So I ordered eight double cheese
10:18burgers. Well, apparently pythons will only eat things they can swallow whole. So the bigger you
10:27are, the safer you are. So safety first. No pythons getting me. Driving through the Everglades right
10:35now, and it is just awesome. Oh, there's so many places I want to stop and fish and explore. I could
10:43spend months here. This is amazing. All right, guys, I met up with Mike. We're going to go get
10:53ourselves some pythons. I am beyond stoked. We're going to make it happen for sure. We're going to
10:58the secret no trespassing, going to go to jail location. Trespassing is a felony? Geez.
11:08Remember, kids, never go to a second location with somebody you met online,
11:11unless they're a python hunter. That's okay. Now, what these are, these are Burmese pythons. These
11:18are people's pets that some yohos let loose into the swamp, thinking they were giving their pets
11:24a better life. And now these things have established a breeding population here in
11:29southwest Florida, in the Everglades and all over this place, and it's just causing havoc.
11:35But the government has commissioned certain bounty hunters, so to speak, about 25 hunters
11:41that are allowed to go on government property and hunt for these things, and they get paid a bounty.
11:45So these professional snake hunters, like Mike, are going around trying their best to try to put
11:51a check on these Burmese pythons. Now, when we see one, is it the kind of thing where we just
11:59bail out of this car and run as fast as we can? No, not at all. You know, we don't want to scare
12:04the snake. We want to kind of make it seem like we don't even see it. It's real camouflage. They
12:11like to wait and see what you're going to do. So we'll just park. We'll just slowly walk up on it,
12:16and as soon as you get your hands on it, it is go time. It's gonna freak out. It's gonna freak out.
12:23We're just scanning, scanning, scanning for a big fat six foot plus snake. This is pretty awesome
12:30being out here at night getting to see a part of the Everglades that people normally don't get to
12:34see. And it's just, I'm on pins and needles, you know. It's the wintertime. We may not see any
12:40pythons, or we might see a bunch. We just don't know.
12:49Now, if I saw one in the water over there, would that just be like,
12:52sorry, out of luck, don't even try it, you know?
12:54All right, go ahead and grab its tail now. Grab its tail and hold on. Do not let go.
13:15Nice job. Now, the snake's kind of cooled down. This is good.
13:24It's gonna make it a little bit easier. Slowly work your way up towards its head.
13:31Kind of wait for a chance to get it when it's kind of stopped and calmed down.
13:40Beautiful. Like a pro. Nicely done. Very nice. Yeah, buddy.
13:48What? Nicely done, brother. That was awesome. It's almost 4 a.m. It's been a long day,
13:55and it's been an awesome day, man. Thank you very much, Mike. Thanks for coming out. I had a great
13:59time, definitely. That was awesome. Yeah. You've got to follow Mike on Instagram. He's got an
14:05amazing Instagram page on there, so I'm going to put a link in the description. As far as the catch
14:11and cook part of this video, what happens with these snakes is he's got to take them to a
14:16biologist between Monday through Friday at certain times, and it's Saturday morning right now, and I'm
14:23going to be leaving Florida before Monday. So what he's going to do is he's going to go ahead, take
14:29it to the biologist. They're going to return the meat back to him. He's going to ship it to me in
14:33Virginia, and then we're going to do the second half of this video where we cook up some pythons.
14:38It's going to be good. It's going to be interesting. Stay tuned. All right. Thanks, man. Yeah, thank you.
14:43I've got a two and a half hour drive back to Cape Coral, and I think I need to load up on some soda
14:49and maybe pick up a souvenir for the boys too. All right. I got Tommy and Nathan some alligator
14:55paw key chains. They'll think that's pretty cool. So what's my secret to staying so alert and focused
15:02while driving? Bollywood music. I made it, and I'm tired.
15:21I love you. Happy birthday, Jacob. Come here. I got some souvenirs for you.
15:36It's an alligator hand key chain. I am so freaked out.
15:44It is Jacob's birthday. He turned one years old today.
15:48Mama. Well, we got the whole crew in here, and we are going to go do some lunch.
15:56Oh, you're smiling too. Yeah, Jake.
16:03Over there? Hey, you want to come with me? Yeah, there's Sheep's Head down there.
16:07Well, today is our second to last full day in Florida, and it's Jacob's birthday,
16:22and this poor little guy is not feeling well. He is sick. He's got a little fever, a little cold,
16:29and I'm just going to cuddle him. Not really going to do much of any fishing,
16:36and I'm just going to hang out with him. I think that's what he needs today. Plus,
16:41I am exhausted, but the boys are having a ball in the swimming pool with Grandpa,
16:47and tonight we're going to eat some delicious fresh seafood,
16:53and I think that's going to be just enough for today.
16:56This is looking pretty good.
17:21There we go, guys. The ultimate Florida dinner plate.
17:23Sheep's Head, scallops, stone crab, fresh caught shrimp, a little bit of mango. Not too bad.
17:53Well, it is the end of a very long Saturday, and I am absolutely exhausted. Hopefully,
18:02Jacob will be feeling a little bit better tomorrow, and I'm just going to do a few
18:07things here on the computer and download some SD cards, and I'm going to bed. See you guys in the
18:14morning. Well, hey, everyone, and welcome to our last full day here in Florida. Jacob's doing a
18:19little bit better. His fever seems to have broken, and he stopped blowing chunks on everyone and
18:23everything. He threw up a lot last night, but he's doing well, and today we're just kind of
18:30packing up and getting everything ready to go because we're checking out early tomorrow to head
18:35back to Virginia. Well, church went pretty well. We got ourselves fairly packed, so now we're going
18:41to hop in the car, do a little Sunday drive, and hide some of those treasure boxes we promised
18:45we'd leave for you guys. All right. All right, guys, this is one of my best treasure boxes here,
18:55and I think we're going to find a really great spot to hide this. Show that back as far as you can.
19:04In you go. Well, guys, it's been a great trip, and we've had a load of fun, but it's time to go home,
19:10and we're driving back to Virginia, about 15 hours, give or take, depending on traffic,
19:14and we're going to hide a couple more of those treasure boxes on our way back,
19:18and don't forget we're going to put in the description the GPS coordinates and little
19:21hints so you guys can find them, so definitely check that out, but I better get the car packed.
19:26Guys, that was no fun. Did you guys have a good time? Yeah. Yeah. All right, now we've got 14 hours
19:34and 40 minutes back to Virginia, so without stops. So let's get to it. I'm out here looking for a
19:41place to hide a treasure box. Unfortunately, this place has an alligator.
19:53All right, three boxes down, two to go. Just watch out for alligators.
19:59So,
20:10well, guys, we made it home, and we hope you enjoyed this video. If you'd like to see more
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