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A-Jay

42 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

A-Jay

X2

I generally leave snakes alone. In the Eastern part of NC Cottonmouths are plentiful and they are the one of the few snake that I will kill. If they leave me be fine, but at the first hint of aggression they will be dispatched. 

13 hours ago, whitwolf said:

I generally leave snakes alone. In the Eastern part of NC Cottonmouths are plentiful and they are the one of the few snake that I will kill. If they leave me be fine, but at the first hint of aggression they will be dispatched. 

 Dont venture south to the upper reaches of Santee-Cooper. The upper lake is absolutely littered with them. You may spend the day killing snakes if you are flipping trees. They seem to be in every bush after you spot the first one.

 

A local actually suggested putting a transistor radio on the bow of the boat with the speaker facing forward in order to warn the snakes of your presence.. He claimed you can hear them dropping into the water ahead your boat. This obviously was a long time ago.

Where's a big gator when you need one.  They are a big part of the gator's diet.

Awesome!  Right up my alley.

 

Would post my own footage of a cottonmouth facing

me down when one of my sons and I were long-pole

fishing off a dock at Harwood's Mill here in VA. Vid 

file is too big.

 

It came from across the reservoir directly to us at 

the dock. I picked it up with the butt end of one of

the 10' poles and moved it to the other side where

it continued its belligerence toward us for fishing in 

its water, LOL.

19 hours ago, A-Jay said:

A-Jay

X3, empty the mag

It's against the law to kill any snake in Tn. They figure you can get away from them in a boat. If you do kill one you better not post it on Face Book. The game wardens will fine you for it. I know some one that this happened to.

 

On 8/1/2017 at 2:48 PM, Skeeter Dan said:

It's against the law to kill any snake in Tn. They figure you can get away from them in a boat. If you do kill one you better not post it on Face Book. The game wardens will fine you for it. I know some one that this happened to.

 

 

Another good reason to stay off Facebook, lol.

On 8/1/2017 at 10:50 AM, Al Wolbach said:

 Dont venture south to the upper reaches of Santee-Cooper. The upper lake is absolutely littered with them. You may spend the day killing snakes if you are flipping trees. They seem to be in every bush after you spot the first one.

 

A local actually suggested putting a transistor radio on the bow of the boat with the speaker facing forward in order to warn the snakes of your presence.. He claimed you can hear them dropping into the water ahead your boat. This obviously was a long time ago.

 

That's no joke!  I was warned my first time at staying at Black's Camp.  I thought no way!  Uh, yes way!

I have no idea about the radio thing.

2 hours ago, Al Wolbach said:

 

Another good reason to stay off Facebook, lol.

    Thankfully I don't need a reason. 

I haven't encountered many this summer but that's no joke about the snakes in the Santee-Cooper lakes and rivers. I have heard of more people having encounters with copperheads or rattlers this year. 

Not so bad nowadays but decades ago when I was a kid fishing from a john boat we would put fish on a stringer and alongside the boat (nobody knew what catch and release was). If one of those fish was bleeding it was real bad. Had to be careful when you went to put the stringer back in the boat. Somehow those snakes figured those fish belonged to them. We were young and dumb so we just beat em off with a paddle. Somehow we survived.

That was an aggressive one!

Glad we don't have them here.

Kansas supposedly, has only had one verified cottonmouth report . that is fine with me.

nearly stepped on a timber rattler turkey hunting. luckily he was content just rattling instead of striking..

still was enough to make me nearly soil myself.

 

I've had water snakes chase chatterbaits before. Scary!

On 9/1/2017 at 0:26 AM, davecon said:

Not so bad nowadays but decades ago when I was a kid fishing from a john boat we would put fish on a stringer and alongside the boat (nobody knew what catch and release was). If one of those fish was bleeding it was real bad. Had to be careful when you went to put the stringer back in the boat. Somehow those snakes figured those fish belonged to them. We were young and dumb so we just beat em off with a paddle. Somehow we survived.

Years ago we were crappie fishing off a dock at Lake Buchanan.  Guy on one corner pulls up his fish basket to drop another slab in and there was a big fat cottonmouth in the basket.  The snake couldn't get out and nobody was willing to try to get him out.  I think the guy cut the string and let the basket sink to the bottom.

When watching the video, turn the sound up on your computer and listen closely.