MONSTER garter snakes

[Kantar]

I search on google for the worlds longest garter snake and its listed at 137.2cm, only 4.5 feet.

Throughout my years of loving to go out and find snakes I've probably seen or caught about 1000 garters. Love catching, looking at them and releasing. But there are 2 notable finds I found that rival this 'worlds longest' garter. These 2 snakes must have been around 5 feet

About 14 years ago I caught a monster at this corner before the area became developed with buildings
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Almost 20 years ago a monster in this area
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Almost all snakes I find are at largest 3-4 feet, but these 2 were absolutel monsters. What are some monsters you have found?

[guidofatherof5]

I have a monster female radix names Speckle. She's close to 4 feet but it's her girth that makes her a monster to me.
Everything about her is big. She's a big snake on a big frame. Even her scales are larger then all my other radixes.
She came from right outside my front door.

[snakehill]

Pictures please!

[RedSidedSPR]

The biggest, out of the two , that i've found.. was a WHOPPING 2 feet!!! Whatever. I find a lot of snakes, but not garters... it's weird.

[Kantar]

I just wish I had my own place so I could have kept one of them. My parents weren't keen on having snakes in their house

[kibakiba]

Mama is my monster. Her had is the size of my thumb, and she's close to two feet, which is big for a garter around here. The biggest I've SEEN was Malady, the moldy snake that made me come here. She was probably a little over two feet with a head the size of a quarter., which is bigger than my thumb.

[ssssnakeluvr]

my melanistic female eastern we 44" when she passed away last fall... was an old snake.


Scott Felzer had a hybino radix that was around 48 inches... here she is

[d_virginiana]

No pics, but I found I wild eastern in the area around Southboston, VA that was so big it took me a minute to realize that it really was a garter. She was probably gravid at the time, making her look a lot bulkier than she normally would've been, but she was over three feet long. One of the only garters I've ever caught actually...

[J@50n]

Those snakes (in the pictures) are HUGE!!! I love the all black one, so beautiful!

[brain]

And doesn’t the T. atratus get to be around 3ft’.