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Snakes are coming, and you’re just going to have to deal with it
Hey guys. For you all who bank fish, be sure to keep ya eyes peeled! I already saw 3 this week. Water snakes, but still, 3!
A buddy of mine the other day said he saw a Cottonmouth at Town Creek and a Copper Head close to the Guntersville State Park.
Y'all be safe out there!
same here,,, 1 cottonmouth down so far.
Where?
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I am more concerned with snakes than I am gators.
I'm a huge reptile nerd, so I love finding snakes. I even have a crappy series of "educational" snake videos on YouTube (Snakes of Alabama). I understand a lot of people don't like them, but as long as you watch where you put your hands and feet, you're not in any danger.
Here's one of the dozens of snakes I've found so far this year. Northern Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus).
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So that’s you doing the videos?Quote:
Originally Posted by eminart
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Now that would make a nice pair of boots! Lol too close for me! I stepped out of the truck the other day after I just launched my boat and I felt my foot move and I’m glad it was just a rat snake I had just stepped right on top of one .I did have my pistol In my hand but if it been a copperhead I’d been bit! So be sure to watch where you put ur hands and feet! I don’t bother them if they don’t bother me!
Yep been seeing them for a while now. No need to worry just watch you step. I just admire them and walk around them. I Turkey hunt and you see them a lot. Long as they aren't in my yard I just walk around them, they got a job to do just like every thing else.
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I don’t mind them long as I have room to get out of there way and can see them. I was gonna ask eminart if that’s him in the videos how he spots them that way.
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I generally give em all a pass except cotton mouths. They've just generally got a bad attitude.
Yep, that's me mumbling out incoherent info. Well, assuming you're talking about the right videos. I think there's another person from down south that has some older videos with a similar title.Quote:
Originally Posted by Damion Kidd
I saw him too but figured out which was you when I saw the one you shared here. That’s cool. I was just wondering how you spot them without being right on top of them?
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Killed this timber rattler yesterday. Attachment 341542
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Originally Posted by Damion Kidd
Well, if I'm not specifically out looking for snakes, I just make sure I don't step where I can't see. If I'm out looking for snakes on purpose, I just go to some good habitat and move through it slowly scanning all the likely spots especially well. The vast majority of the snakes you see are going to be harmless anyway. And, if you just take reasonable precautions, you're very unlikely to ever be bitten. People run into issues when they start trying to kill them needlessly, or have a few too many adult beverages and start showing off how they can catch the copperhead.
Freak accidents do happen. A friend of mine reached onto a shelf in a shed and was bitten on the thumb by a copperhead a couple of years ago. Even I probably get a little careless in places like that. But, he went to the hospital. His hand swelled up and hurt for a while. He was back at home in a day or two. You don't want to get bitten by a venomous snake, but in north america, as long as you seek medical attention, the chances of you dying are almost zero. You might lose a finger though, so be careful.
In summary, just watch where you step.
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Originally Posted by drucker
Here's a couple I found. Mine are better because they're still alive. :cheers2
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Mine was under the tree my son's swing is in. It had to go. I don't like any alive snake.
I’ve never just went out in the wild to kill one. But if they are close to the house around where kids and stuff are gonna be then I agree they have to go.Quote:
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But I have always been fascinated by them.
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I don't want the venomous ones in my yard either. I understand that. Personally, I'd relocate them, but I have a lot of snake wrangling experience. I love finding them out in nature though. I'd rather see a rattlesnake than one of those boring bears in the smokies any day. And, I definitely like seeing the nonvenomous snakes in my yard. Free rodent control.
I’ve hunted and fished all my life and have saw every kind up close alive except a rattle snake. I’ve saw them dead but would love to see one alive. As long as it wasn’t to close.
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My little girl found a den of rattlers 50 yards off of my back porch last year.... I'm looking almost daily for their return. Good snakes for the environment, really bad in the center of a big back yard where a 7 year old spends the majority of her daylight time when we are home tho... Cool pictures!
I think them timber rattlesnake are beautiful with all the highlights of color they have. You would be surprised at how much you have to do to make one mad to. They know the power they have and they know not much will mess with them. I will kill one quick in the yard but just atmare them from a distance on the woods.
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Growing up on a farm and spending all my time on a creek growing up . Snakes don't bother me. But i do have a story. 2 springs ago i went to my favorite honey hole to bream fish and a nasty 5 foot cotton mouth must have hear me catching fish. She came up and everytime i caught won she would come towards it when i got it to the bank. I didn't have anything with me to kill her with and she was so bad you could smell the poison. I eventually gave up and left. I have never seen her again and been back to the same spot numerous times looking for her.