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    Snake-Charmer

    Dec 26, 2023 5 minutes

    AS I PULL INTO A PUBLIC PARK ON THE WESTERN EDGE OF BROWARD COUNTY, the sun is just peeking over the clusters of two-story McMansions that stop abruptly where the wilds of Florida take over. Corey Nowakowski is sitting in the driver’s seat of the only other vehicle in the parking lot. The world-record snakehead angler rolls down the window of his Toyota Tacoma to say hello. The “snakehead slayer” sticker on the rear window of his truck and the 10-foot jonboat sticking out past the tailgate gave him away.

    My glasses instantly fog up as I step out of my truck and into the muggy, August morning. Nowakowski, a 34-year-old native Floridian, invites me into his truck, and we drive a mile or two down the road

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