After struggling to subdue the snake, Waleri jumped on it. 'Last year my cousin and I caught a snake that was almost 18 feet long, and we realized we could handle a snake of that size.'Ĭapturing the 19-footer was 'insane' and 'very chaotic,' Waleri said. 'I knew we were capable of it but I didn't know it would happen,' Waleri said. The 19-foot python was caught in the Big Cypress National Preserve in eastern Collier County early Monday morning by Naples hunter and Ohio State University student Jake Waleri, who said the catch was a dream come true. − Hunters in South Florida caught the largest Burmese python ever measured, and the lengthy beast is being examined at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples.
