Over the years we have seen and caught so many snakes it's pittyful. We go wadeing creeks now fishing, and realy rarely see any snakes, they are are looking at us, but we ain't looking either. A couple of years ago, me and my brother and a another friend of ours went to a swamp fishing off the bank, we seen a couple Cottonmouths (Water-Mocasins) samething, but we left them alone and they left us alone. Well, we got ready to leave, and we drove up on a bridge overlooking the swamp and the area we were just fishing, we stopped the truck and got out just looking. I saw this absolutley huge Cottonmouth ( I have seen many of these snakes over the years, but none any as big as this one!), well I grabbed my rod and reel, I had a worm tied on and all I wanted to do was drop the worm next to it, to get it to stretch out and see just how long it was, my hook is buried in the worm anyways, well I drop it down there, and drag it across the snakes body, he starts to stretch out, and my worm falls on a little limb, well I pull it out, it inturns pulls my hook exposed which I didn't know happened, until what happened next. I dropped the worm next the body of this snake again, I went to pull it up over the body, well the hook sticks this sucker in the side, and I jiggle it trying to get it out, well the snake starts freaking out, and the hook goes deeper and deeper. I can't get my hook back and this is so big my rod is about to break, I had to grab the line and pull it up closer and closer to me while this silly thing is thrashing around like a wildabeast on crack! My brother and friend are saying don't pull that thing up here, what makes it soo bad is the hook is in about half way down it's back, so it's still got a pretty healthy reach, I'd pull it on up some more, and wait for the head to turn away from us, and I cut the line!! I didn't really know what I was going to do either, but it worked out.

Me and the same friend was behind my house one day catching rat snakes, we caught one that was good sized, I held it while my buddy took some pictures. Well he wanted to hold it and wanted me to take some pictures, well I could tell the snake had enough, it started getting more and more tense, I told my buddy he's fixin' to strike, my buddy looks up at me and right at that moment that joker bites the crap out of my buddies arm, and wouldn't let go!! I laughed so hard my guts hurt!! I got a picture of it with it's mouth stuck to his arm, and the picture right after that is where the blood was trickling out of his arm! He didn't like those pictures!! All it was two scrapes! We catch and play with snakes, but only certain ones.