NARRATOR: Deep in the Northern Everglades--
It's too thick in here, man. Where you going?
- I don't know, Pewee. - You have nowhere to go.
I'm trying to get around them trees.
NARRATOR: --a tip from a local Bush pilot
has Troy and Pickle heading into the unknown.
Peewee and I, we're trying to get to this place
that we were told by a local pilot
that there's an opening about the size of two
or three football fields.
He sees snakes in that football field.
[suspenseful music]
Watch yourself.
Jeez.
I'm gonna get us out of here.
If we could get back there, we might catch
15 or 20 snakes in one day.
By the time we get back there, though, we're
gonna have to double up on our snakes to make
up for the time we wasted. TROY: I know, Peewee.
I know it.
The risk of going out into this thick jungle,
not really knowing what direction we're headed
in, and just hoping on a prayer here that
we're gonna catch a bunch of snakes--
we're wasting the entire day.
And I just don't think it's worth it.
We're gonna have to catch 12 by the time
we get to this clearing.
We'll park right here before it gets too late,
and we're gonna head straight north.
Let's go.
If we can get there, I think it's gonna be well worth it.
But we've got to get there first.
[suspenseful music]
Oh, look. Snake!
Snake! Snake!
Hold, Peewee. Oh, [bleep].
Watch him. Grab the tail.
Grab the tail. Oh!
Watch him.
Pull him out.
Now we're hitting the jackpot.
[hissing]
Oh, my god.
[hissing]
Ooh!
TROY: Watch him. Watch him.
We got to wear him down.
Don't get in front of that head.
Try to stay behind it.
Get the other--
Ah!
Aye, aye, aye, that came close.
[hissing]
Get ready, Peewee. Get ready.
Watch him.
[hissing]
Aye, aye, aye.
Watch him, Peewee. We got to wear him out.
Got to wear him out.
Aye, aye aye!
Got to wear him out, Peewee. Oh!
Good job. Good job.
Good job.
[laughs] Oh!
Woo.
- Got it? - Got it.
He's still twisting.
Oh, lord have mercy.
I want to learn as many new areas as I can.
Because we might catch twice as many if we
can get through the jungle.
So this is just another new area for us
to learn and put in our back pocket.
Hopefully, this is the first of at least a dozen.
Huh?
Yeah.
It's got to be.
All of the palm trees they got back here, huh?
You notice how different they are here?
It's not a stick on the bottom, but the trees
are a lot, lot taller. PICKLE: Yeah.
TROY: Look how tall.
It's like a canopy.
Look how they're starting to open up.
PICKLE: High elevation.
You know, we could be getting kind of close to that opening.
In my mind, this is like a little getaway,
like a little paradise.
The less people go in the area, the more
wildlife they're gonna have.
That's how it is everywhere-- whether you're in Louisiana
or in Montana, it don't matter.
So I'm determined to get to that opening.
Let it go a little bit more. - This way.
TROY: A little bit more that way, Peewee.
Yeah.
TROY: A little bit more to the right.
it should be easier for us to spot 'em
because it's not as thick.
Oh, look.
What's that back-- what is that?
Hey. Hey.
What? What?
PICKLE: A snake. A snake.
Where? PICKLE: A snake, right here.
TROY: Where at? PICKLE: Right here.
Oh, lord, look right here. I see it.
I see it. Watch it.
Watch it. PICKLE: Oh, my god.
TROY: Watch him.
Don't let him get away.
Grab that tail.
Ooh. Watch.
Watch it.
[hissing]
Watch it.
Watch him.
TROY: Ooh! Watch him.
Watch him.
Here. Give me the tail.
Give me the tail.
TROY: Watch him, Peewee. Watch him.
PICKLE: Look at me.
[hissing]
Get him. Get him.
Get him. TROY: Ya!
PICKLE: Yeah.
Got him.
TROY: [sighs] Whew.
PICKLE: He's mean, huh?
TROY: It's a young one.
Yeah, a juvenile.
Pick it up a little bit.
There we go. - Ready?
- Yeah. - One, two, three.
Three.
Boom.
Hey.
I guarantee you that pilot is right.
This is gonna be a hatchery right here.
I know we're getting close, but I want to find that clearing.
I bet if we come back tomorrow, we know exactly where to go.
We won't waste half of the day.
Look What is that?
Huh?
PICKLE: Look.
Oh, look, Mr. Troy.
TROY: Look at the oranges.
Oh, look at this.
This is what we've been looking
for all along, right here.
PICKLE: When we walk out to this field,
it just looked like the Garden of Eden.
I could see the snake trails running all through here.
So let's get in the middle of this
and see how many we can catch.
Because we got to definitely make up our quota now.
TROY: We found a few snakes walking through the jungle.
And then we finally got to the opening.
But we started walking around the opening
and looking at the knocked down trees,
and underneath the real thick briars and all.
We're not finding no snakes.
Hey, P.
PICKLE: What?
You can see they've been all over in here.
I don't see any. You?
No.
I don't see no snakes, man.
TROY: Oh, but they got trails.
They got tunnels going all over underneath this big tree.
PICKLE: Oh, yeah.
They got a good hole right here.
I guarantee they got four or five listening
to us right now under here.
PICKLE: I think we ought to hit the perimeter,
maybe go in the wood line a little bit.
I think we might have scared 'em all to the-- to the edges.
You know what I'm saying?
I think that's what we need to do.
PICKLE: We've been walking around this clearing
and we're not catching anything.
All of these snakes were in the center of this clearing,
and we scared them out to the perimeter.
So my idea, we're gonna hit the side.
We're gonna hit the wood line and see
what we can find right in the edge of this wood line here.
And I guarantee you, that's where they're at.
I mean, they have to be here.
There's snake trails everywhere.
We're running out of daylight, like, right now.
And we only got, I think, four snakes if I'm counting right.
Man, if I was a snake, this is the kind
of place I'd like to hide.
[suspenseful music]
Oh, look. Right right!
Right here! TROY: What?
PICKLE: Snake!
Snake!
[hissing]
Ah!
Stretch him out, Peewee.
Stretch him out.
Oh.
PICKLE: Ah!
TROY: Ooh!
He's going after you.
I told you they'd be right in the woods, huh?
I got it stretched out.
TROY: All right, Peesee, wear him down.
Wear him down. Come on.
Aye, aye, aye!
Damn!
[hissing]
He's chasing me.
He's coming after me.
Oh!
Catch-- catch the damn thing.
Yes!
Yeah.
Good job, bud.
Ah.
NARRATOR: Troy's hunch is right.
The snakes are here, and they're finally onto them.
The edge is the real dirty stuff.
But always staying where we could see the clearing,
and we're catching them.
That's what it is.
I think they just backed out into the shade
and they're waiting for dark to come out into this open.
I think we ought to just keep working the edge, huh?
Yeah, I guess.
Let's leave this one out.
We can leave this one out over here.
Put 'em out where we can see 'em.
Yeah.