Warning!

Man your right that Maumelle creek and river is flat loaded with some Big Fat Cottonmouths. Them things get real aggressive this time of year when they come out of hibernation looking for warmth, love, food and a nice warm boat motor to crawl up into. Them things give me the heebee jebees when I see em coming slithering up high in the water towards my boat. Good catch and be careful.

Here is another warning for ya... go up into a cove or up into the Fouche river coming into Lake Nimrod and set back turn on a bright Lantern or two and do a little Night time catt'in or crappie fishing. Tell me what ya see come swimming towards ya after a little bit. Nimrod has em buddy. Burrrrrrrr.

That'll get your heart rate up for sure...good post and nice mess of specks!

OMG! Hate em. Where I live them critters are everywhere.

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Originally Posted by arkansasbowhunter

OMG I would have had a MI, the big one.

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I would have had a BM, a big one! I hate moccasins! I have smelled them before, also. Once when I was squirrel hunting, I began smelling one and could not spot him, anywhere. I knew I had to be close though. I backed out of there.

My dad tells a story of a snake dropping out of an overhanging limb in the boat with him on Cox Creek Lake in Leola. He broke his boat paddle and dented up the bottom of his old teal green Ouachita boat.

Nice mess of fish, but would not have been worth a snakebite in the face! Looked to be a big moccasin too. Nasty! GTT

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Originally Posted by CASTINnBLASTIN

Thats the crazy thing is I dont have a trim on my boat I lift it up to put the transom saver on it.I was down on my knees pulling the motor up to put it on the saver and actually smelled it first.Very scary situation to say the least!

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That was not the snake you were smellin!! :Rofl

When I looked at the picture and could see the tail of the snake, I thought it looked like the tail of a cottonmouth. I'm not a snake hater, but I will kill every cottonmouth I possibly can. Any other snake, I'll just ignore.

Glad you didn't get bit!

Did you need a clean pair of drawers after seeing that thing that close? I know I would have.

Scarey!!!!! glad you are OK. DP

That was too close for comfort. Glad it worked out in your favor. Looks like he was mad about you takin them fish!!!

glad your safe nice catch also

Thanks everybody..hope this pic saves somebody a hard lesson learned cause this was a crazy situation I have never seen or even heard of for that matter.Ive seen them swim toward the boat and try to get in frog giggin or night fishing but never seen one do this!