Just to whet your appetite for reading the article in the latest Sporting Classics rag, one of the "Kings of Curlew Island" was a huge diamondback rattler.

I really did not know, until I saw a show this summer on TV, that the biggest of the big Eastern Diamondbacks inhabit the coastal islands of the Southeast. I watched as a fellow tracked a swimming rattler to a beach on a little island, and caught it. It was an eight foot snake................just huge.

SRH

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