Wife and I live deep in the mountains of VA and are seeing quite a bit of snake activity......no I don't kill them.

That's pretty cool.  Be careful out there.

Snakes don't bother me, but I do find it annoying when they go after my topwater bait.

Good man Bird.  I like snakes much more than mice!

I don't get to worked up about snakes either, but I do fish with my dog. So do I carry in case.

 

My biggest problem is keeping dog away from brush and rock where snakes be hidden when its so hot out, 108 today!

40 minutes ago, Hewhospeaksmuchbull said:

its so hot out, 108 today!

 

   Kelvin, right?        jj

I'm not freaked out by snakes but I'm not super fond of walking up on one not seeing it til your on it. That creeps me for a second. I'm fortunate that we don't have many poisonous snakes around me...a few rattlers around I've heard but I haven't ever seen or heard any. Mostly see garters and bullsnakes. 

Honestly never met an aggressive Rattler,  Copperheads can be grumpy. 

Looks like a pretty good sized rattler in that last picture. Never seen one in the wild, although we have a few around here. I've seen a couple cooperheads and water moccasins (real ones, not the water snakes that everyone calls water moccasins which are basically non-existent in NE KS), it's always a cool experience.

 

There's a story I hear constantly here about a person was water skiing on Lake X and fell into a nest of water moccasins ?, like they just have a floating nest in the middle of the lake or they were out cruising in their little snake boat or what? People's fear of them makes them spread such a ridiculous story that they can't stop and see the giant hole in it.

When I was about 9 or 10 yrs old, I was fascinated with frogs, predatory birds, and of course snakes. I us to catch them, and keep them for about a week, fed them really well, the returned them to where I caught em. King snakes, gophers, black and blue racers, king snakes, and others. 

 

About 8 years ago while up in the local mountains, I had to go #1 Really bad, so pulled off the road, found a spot, took about 10 steps, and almost stepped on the biggest female western diamond back rattler I have ever seen. Lucky for me, she was  sunning herself to get her metabolism going, and not active. The girth on her was close to 3" in diameter and about 4 to 4 1/2 feet long. Backed off and just looked for a min..then looked for another spot..lol 

We don't really have any poisonous animals in Maine. Maybe our June black fly season ;-). Once and awhile a wild pet snake will get loose for the summer and people will have sightings of  a huge snake in the water but they usually don't like our winters much. They're never seen again after that. Then again they're predators but not poisonous.

 

Once, I did meet up with this venomous woman when I got too close to her dock while casting, but that's a totally different animal. I never got close enough to bite.

On 5/31/2020 at 2:19 PM, BoatSquirrel said:

Good man Bird.  I like snakes much more than mice!

those mice can be real man eaters......

I saw this black racer go across a customers driveway today. But I was there for raccoon not snake