Male Papuan Taipan

Hopefully, the hook is in there in hands that know what he/she is hooking, not for size comparison!!!
Not nagging you, but do you have Anti venom for that snake? If not you are putting the last nail in a coffin....
good luck to you, nice snake though.

Of course the hook is being used by someone (myself) that knows how to handle this snake, to better control it, but also serves quite nicely as a method to show roundabout how large the snake is. As for the AV, you and I have had lengthy discussions about it elsewhere, so there's no need to go back into it here. Thanks for the compliment.