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

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.

I made the same mistake when I was a kid with a 3' 8" black rat snake. I was at camp when I caught him. I took him to the nature center, and when all the younger kids saw him they started to scream. He freaked out & bit down into my shoulder. We had to use a yard stick to pry his jaws open.

Morale of our stories - Leave wild snakes alone, even if they are good looking pets!

No snake will ever bite me while I am holding it.!!

LOL. I'm with you Jesse.

It had to be a female!

I bet you about had a major heart attack.

Nah, I was just surprised. I don't even blame the snake. I do have a permanent scar and a little chunk out of the bottom of my nostril though as proof. It's a cool story to tell.

I hate snakes...

you would make a good canidate for our next president

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you would make a good canidate for our next president

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that is funny:D


I just enjoy looking at snakes from a far. like really far;)

Stop trying to kiss Gopher Snakes. They aren't the friendliest colubrids around.

only good snake is a "DEAD SNAKE"

My Dad used to get a kick out of knockin' snakes out of the willow trees down into my lap while we were canoeing.:mad:

We have pythons, boas, anacondas, and monitor lizards around here and they may take your whole head. I have a fifteen foot boat and have alligators that are just as long try to take my plugs, shiner, and crappies. I have see gator turtles that are 3 feet long. Not to mention bull sharks and stingrays. You were lucky to not get really sick with infection.:D

Many years ago a young Airman that I supervised told me that there were only four kinds of snakes that he was afraid of. Assuming he meant the four poison snakes of the United States I asked him to name them. Big ones, little ones, live ones and dead ones he replied.

not many snakes around here, thankfully

we have some humongo snapping turtles though. When I'm fishing alone at night, they often come into the shallows and make a lot of racket when they spring up out of the water to grab frogs from the bank. Freaks me out, especially when they exhale from their mouths. I'm actually afraid to go out on my raft at night because of that. Had one brush my foot as i was wading last week

Fishin at Reelfoot Lake in Tiptonville, TN. last year, I had three (count em 3) Cottonmouths drop out of trees into my boat. For those of you who aren't familiar with a Cottonmouth - the get about three feet long, big around as a canning jar, very poisonous, extremely aggressive (they try to get in your boat with you on purpose), and always seem to have an attitude. After the third one dropped, I trailored my boat, cleaned my self up, if you know what I mean, and haven't been back there since.

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No snake will ever bite me while I am holding it.!!

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Thats the truth

My 12 yr old daughter is always catching snakes... I don't know where she gets it from, I can't stand them! They give me the whillies!!!

We Want To See The Snake.:d Lol

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No snake will ever bite me while I am holding it.!!

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I wont ever be holding one!!!!:eek:

Sounds like you had your hands full!

I am here to tell you that there are two kinds of snakes and only two. Those that are dead and those that should be dead.

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Fishin at Reelfoot Lake in Tiptonville, TN. last year, I had three (count em 3) Cottonmouths drop out of trees into my boat. For those of you who aren't familiar with a Cottonmouth - the get about three feet long, big around as a canning jar, very poisonous, extremely aggressive (they try to get in your boat with you on purpose), and always seem to have an attitude. After the third one dropped, I trailored my boat, cleaned my self up, if you know what I mean, and haven't been back there since.

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I'm with you Jimmy - I grew up at Lake of the Ozarks, which seems to be cottonmouth (aka pit viper) and copperhead heaven. My wife and I were fishing off of the bank at Cheney reservoir here in Kansas a couple of years ago and saw a nest of Cottonmouths on the shore - about 5 of them all bunched up together. I wasn't sure if they were cottonmouths or just water snakes at first, until I saw them swim to the catfish feeder (cottonmouths swim with most of their body on top of the water, while water snakes swim with most of their body just below the surface). I am not a fan of them either - if they are actually brave/aggressive enough to go catch a catfish for dinner, I'm just gonna let them have the territory for a while! Needless to say, we packed up and left once we knew what they were and now I keep a flatnose shovel in my truck if we decide to fish that spot... LOL

I like snakes, they taste sorta like chicken.

i only touch snakes with sharp objects

If I see a snake, I'm outta there fast!

I was single pole fishing on the river and saw about 6 or 7 cottonmouth's in a brush top all baby's caught a limit of good crappie under that top but was looking for momma the whole time don't like em but there is always fish under them

I don't trust anything that doesn't have shoulders!

He would have never bitten me. when I see a snake I go into some sort of primordial instinct and the devil must die. I lose all rationality and the only thing I can see is killing the slithering wicked evil spawn of Satan. I don't know why its just off the spine, an uncontrollable desire rid the world of such evil. In my world there are no good snakes, only DEAD ONES!!!!!!!

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He would have never bitten me. when I see a snake I go into some sort of primordial instinct and the devil must die. I lose all rationality and the only thing I can see is killing the slithering wicked evil spawn of Satan. I don't know why its just off the spine, an uncontrollable desire rid the world of such evil. In my world there are no good snakes, only DEAD ONES!!!!!!!

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Thats what I have been saying all along. As far as I am concerned ALL SNAKES NEED TO DIE.