NEAR EVERGLADES NAT'L PARK, Fla. – A wife-husband snake hunting team celebrated their love by bagging a massive snake on the week of Valentine’s Day.
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Jayna and Todd Corns say they were snake hunting over the weekend, when Jayna caught a nearly 15-foot-long Burmese python.
The Corns say it took Jayna a while to wrangle the female snake, because it was entangled under a large rock formation.
The Corns humanely euthanized the snake per state regulations, and found that it had not eaten in a while, and weighed just 87 pounds.
They also said that the snake was carrying a great number of eggs.
The Corns say Jayna hunts four days a week and has removed more than 100 invasive pythons from protected Florida wetlands.
She often harvests the skin to make different products.
They say this was, by far, her hardest catch yet.
As for Todd’s role, he joked that he is “the weekend warrior helper.”
The Rotenberger Wildlife Management Area adjoins the Everglades and comprises more than 29,000 acres of western Broward and Palm Beach counties, west of US 27.
In July 2023, python hunters Jake Waleri and Steven Gauta stumbled upon a 19-foot beast in the Big Cypress Nat’l Preserve, the longest documented Burmese python ever caught in Florida.