PYTHON HUNT 2025: OPERATION HISS-POSSIBLE
Prepare for the most wild Florida adventure you've ever experienced. Through gator lands 🐊 and snake pits 🐍, we'll be out in the dead of night to bag us some PYTHON. It's going to be intense, unforgettable, and possibly crazy.
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📦 Pack List
- Your most adventurous attitude
- Long-sleeve shirt – recommend synthetic and/or wicking
- Light-weight pants – recommend against cotton or jeans
- Longer socks – to duct tape inside your pants
- Headnet with hat
- Flashlight and/or headlamp – recommend 1500+ lumens. Budget brands: Streamlight, Wurkkos, Sofirn
- Re-fillable water bottle
- Light work gloves
- Running shoes – recommend running shoes for comfort vs boots.
- Small towel – optional but good for sweating, mud, etc. A shop towel or similar.
- Deet and/or Permethrin – We’ll have extra deet. Regular bug sprays WILL NOT work.
- Snacks – easy, handle-held snacks are best. Protein bars or similar.
- Python hunting permit – MUST HAVE. Link below.
- Clothing for 2 full days – recommend exta pair of socks.
- Bathing suit
- Recommended: Walking stick
- Recommended: Poncho
🏨 Hotel & HQ
We'll be staying at the River Wilderness Waterfront Cabins in Everglades City, FL. Although they're called cabins, they're more like old-Florida condos. Basecamp for meals and gear check each afternoon before we leave. Roll-out time will be 7pm. Excursions will be late into the night, at least until 2am, if 3am or 4am. You will get dirty and tired. Please remember to be respectful that we have a mix of guys, and we're all working as a team.
📍 Hunt Area
Primary operations will be in the Big Cypress Preserve because of its proximity, especially around Turner River Rd, Loop Rd, Tamiami, and southeast side of the Fakahatchee Strand.
🐍 MUST HAVE - Python Permit
We all must complete registration with the state, and pass the $25 online training.
🥚🥞 Meals
Please, for Day #1, on the drive in, either pack something or stop for something.
- Day #1 Dinner - Shredded Chicken Tacos, salsa/quac/black beans with chips
- Day #2 Breakfast - Eggs, bacon, toast, coffee
- Day #2 Lunch - Hot dogs, baked beans, coleslaw
- Day #2 Dinner - Cheeseburgers, potato salad
- Day #3 Breakfast - Eggs, bacon, toast, coffee
🧢 Frequently Asked Questions
📸 Photos from Last Year
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