Thread: Reelfoot Snakes ?

Reel Foot use to be on my bucket list, but now I don't know. Went to Normandy Lake yesterday and seen 6 different snakes, and as somebody else mentioned we had one get in our boat yesterday when we didn't know it and we did notice two others trying to get in my boat, but Tracy beat them with his rod till they changed their minds. I think 5 were just the banded water snakes, and the one that did make it in my boat was apparently one that fell from a tree that was startled once we went to moving and went to wanting to get out. My fishing partner yesterday got me to stop the boat with his yelling. I thought I was about to hit a 3 foot diameter log straight on but it was because we had a snake in front of our feet, at his mostly in the boat. Snake was like somebody else commented a water rattling copper headed moccasin cobra eyed corralled up kind, but in reality he was green and about 18 inches long. He went up and over the side of the boat and out into the water as soon as I got boat stopped. We didn't mind him getting out on his own at all. Worse thing about yesterdays trip is we seen more snakes than keeper crappie.