Snakes

[IceWarriorGill]

A few years ago I was really keen on nighttime fishing from the shore around old country ponds and public boat landings (way out in the middle of nowhere). I thought I was pretty hot stuff and would use a lantern to sit by the shore to fish by and use my cyclops (head lamp) if I wanted to go off and jig in another area. I believed then that the biggest of fish would only hit at night in undisturbed areas. Well early one evening, just after dusk, I had a bite on my jiggin pole and reeled in a small baby catfish about 1/2lbs to 1lbs and I had really hooked him good. I left my pole on the shore with its tip in the water and I turned around to walk back to my tackle bag and get my pliers (about 10 ft away). When I came back (about a minute later), I went to grab my rod and instead put my hand a few inches from the body of a 5ft long Copperhead (its girth was as big around as my calf) who had half of the baby catfish in its mouth still splashing in the water. I jumped back and my sudden movement alerted the snake who instantly dropped the fish and slithered away. I just about had a heart attack on the spot, and I've never packed up my fishing gear so quickly as I did that night. A Forty-Five minute drive later back at my house, both my hands were still shakin. I don't go nighttime fishing from shore anymore!!!!!!

[1Caprandy]

My father was camping near a lake in SC once near a small cove,there were ducks that swam around in the cove, one day while the full grown ducks were swimming he heard on squak real loud and get pulled under the water,later on a very large snake he said bigger than his arm crawled up on a log with a duck size lump in it middle,now theres a snake!!

[stinkies daddy]

My step father and were very new to boat fishing, and on 1 trip we noticed a bass boat on the bank just down from some trees. we go over and ask if we could help the guy says thanks as his prop was trashed and needed a tow. It seems as they were under the trees a water moc had dropped into the boat, and in most cases panic will soon follow! It seems that these 2 fellas were packin a 410 shot gun you know the kind, short compact balck and silver a snake charmer. and had used it that very day. well they would have been ok but as panic had taken over, when they tried to get back to the ramp, they hammered the gas and drove right over a good sized rock pile, trashing the prop. Bythe time we pulled them back to the ramp, they had had enuff! poor guys, sunburnt, 2 pieces of dead snake in the boat, hole in the hull, trashed prop and no fish. they had to rely on us arkansas boys to pull them in. it was nice to be able to help, i have towed others since then, but none have had worse luck than those 2 texas boys on lake medina

[stinkies daddy]

My brother-in-law and his wife both work at the new Dogwoods golf course at Grenada Lake. Last Saturday, one of the grounds crew walked to a switch box at the edge of one of the hole fairways, and discovered two very large timer rattlers doing the wild-thang (copulating). One had 7 rattlers, and the other 15. A gun was quickly gotten, and ended the snakes' fun Sister-in-law took close-up detailed pictures of them still "engaged" (after they were shot). They were entwined like a pretzel. Of course, you know how small pictures on a cell phone are, but I consider this a very rare occassion. Just lookin at the pics, these suckers were huge. There have been many rattlers killed out there just this year, by the way.

So, if anybody knows how to load pictures from a cell phone to a PC, please let me know, and I'll try to post. These were the only pictures taken.

Thanks

bring the pic up on the phone, select options, select send, put ure email addy in and send. when the pic gets to ure mail, save as to your desk top then go theu the normal photobucket proceedures to load pic

[greatthosu]

Do i need to say anything.

[toneyoutdoors.com]

I dont like the looks of that lol.

[Fullspectrum]

There’s this hot spot that I fish at, but from time to time we spot quite a few snakes. I’m not sure which specie they are, but we see them swimming across every now and then. Me and a few buddies of mine decided to do some night fishing. About 2 hrs into the night, one of the guys screamed out in the middle of the night like a little girl which spooked the rest of us. It turned out that a snake made its way into his tackle bag. Luckily, he didn’t get bit, but it sure was funny. After that, he made me go drive my pickup up by the river so he could fish out from my truck bed.

[WarrenMN]

You know your going to have a bad day when,

http://www.blm.gov/ca/news/newsbytes..._rattlers.html

WarrenMN

[Wooly]

When I was 10 or so years old I rode my bike a couple of mile from home to a bridge over a stream. Since it was summer I decided to wade the creek to see what I could find. A little ways from the bridge I spotted a bull frog on the other side of the creek. Using my seasoned country boy skills I slowly waded across. When I was close enough I I tried to snatch the frog out of the water. To my amazement the frog jumped back wards in the water . Well I had never seen a frog jump back wards before. After my third try I grabbed the frog. Lifting up my prize I found a water snake with a frogs leg all they way down its throat . Needless to say the frog\snake went sailing thru the air one way while I learned to run on water the way.

Lessons learned that day:
1. If you can sneak up on a frog in the water without it disapearing.... something ain't right.
2. If frogs jump back wards in the water.... something ain't right.

Wooly

[hogdawg]

When I was growing up, my friend and I were riding our bikes down our street and when we reached his driveway there was a snake crossing the road that stretched halfway across. It must have been 7 or 8 feet and it was as big as my calf is now. Looking back, it must have been someone's pet boa or something and had gotten out of it's cage. We ran in to get his parents but when we came back we could not find it anywhere. It was hard to believe that a snake that big could just disappear.