Snakes won't bother you.  However, I have had a Northern Watersnake crawl up my outboard.   He kept coming at the boat and finally he disappeared.  I looked around for him and found him wrapped around the linkages near the hinge.

I purposely inched my boat up to and underneath basking Brown Watersnakes.  When they dive off the branch they land in your boat.  Fun times!

I've caught countelss snakes while fishing, some nicer than others.  

I caught this Black Rat Snake several hundred yards from shore swimming across a lake.  I brought him home and treated his eye and released him later where I found him.

And I decided to grab this Northern Watersnake as he came near my boat.  He left me a love bite....

im not going to worry any more ...

but if a snake comes on board i can almost promise

im getting off the boat and into the lake ...lol

The small gators will sometimes strike buzzbaits and topwaters.  My friend and I caught one on blackwater in the seminole WMA this summer.  It was a pain to get him unhooked but we did.  The funny thing was he came back for more a few minutes later.  hehe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_UnV3RbCtg

Now I'm scared to go under trees in my yak =P

Nothing like chewed up thin mint girlscout cookies and milk all over my keyboard.  

The small gators will sometimes strike buzzbaits and topwaters. My friend and I caught one on blackwater in the seminole WMA this summer. It was a pain to get him unhooked but we did. The funny thing was he came back for more a few minutes later. hehe

They can be quite annoying,the young ones.I have had some very stupid ones that would go after a topwater over and over no matter where you cast and thus ruining an entire area.Even hooked them and let them go and they still don't learn.They are very fond of spooks,buzzbaits,and a nice tender bronzeye frog is their favorite.

I didn't catch this one on purpose though.It came through a patch of scum and hammered my frog during low light first thing in the morning.I thought I had a real mama of a bass...at first :

Welcome to the world of boating,theres nothting better then having your own boat.Nice fish in pics dont worry about the gators.unless it is mating season you will here them growling stay away,but as it has been said already they are more afraid of you.

i went out today and the wind was blowin bad so i couldnt fish like i wanted to

i went all the way to the other side of the lake and five minute into fishing the wind changed direction

so i had to go back to the other side and then it changed again and i said thats enough im out of here...lol

But i wasnt worried about gators

due to all the support on this site thanks a million .........;D ;D ;D

and that gator and the pic gone get you when he grow up lol  

Here the one I was talking about in my earlier post.