Bit by in the nose by a snake....

[Jeff213]

There was absolutely nothing to do at work so I went and asked my boss for half the day off to go fishing. I got out to one of the tidal sloughs a couple miles from my house and it was about 60 degrees and fairly windy. I started throwing rattle traps for black bass and caught a nice one in the first 10 minutes or so.

I was moving along the levee and I saw a huge gopher snake (4 or 5 feet long). I had goper snakes as pets and this one was a really good looking snake. We don't have a lot of poisonous snakes in the area where I live so I have never been afraid of the local snakes so I went and picked him up maybe thinking of taking him home or something as a pet. He acted real calm, didnt hiss at me or anything so i was holding him loosely. He struck real fast and bit me in the nose. It bled pretty bad, but once I had washed it out with some of the water I had taken with me and it stopped bleeding I kept fishing for a few more hours.