Thread: Reelfoot Snakes ?

Originally Posted by Double D

Biggest snakes in the world at Reelfoot!

Double D, come on over and fish with me I'll whoop the snakes while you drag in the fish! Lol.
I should have taken a picture of the one I caught Friday afternoon

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.

GFC, don't let the snakes bother you. I think we were seeing them in the trees because they were just getting real active. I saw no snakes I. The trees yesterday and I was in some wooly ones. The fishing should get better over there in the next couple of weeks

More snake info... an addendum to my earlier post about my hunting trip at reelfoot years ago. I began seeing snakes like I said earlier as the sun began to warm things up. I would encounter them frequently as I tried to make my way back a small ridge I had traveled down into the swamp that morning BEFORE daylight. Every time I had a snake confront me on that trail out, he would be aggressive and threaten me. I accommodated them by using my deer rifle. Pretty soon I heard something approaching me thru the water and it was a guy that looked like he just walked out of the deliverance movie and yelled to ask who was doing all the shooting. I explained why it was me and he replied "Son ,you haven't got enough shells to kill all the snakes you're gonna see today" He quickly took out a saw he was toting in a holster and cut a small sapling and made a small whip. He said here I'll show you how to deal with a snake and after a few steps another snake appears and he just whipped that snakes head at the neck and presto! dead snake, no wiggle, no writhe, just dead snake. He turned promptly to me and said "Here use this, quit shooting in here I'm hunting in here" and he disappeared with his hip boots back into the swamp.

An old broken tip of a jig pole
Works just as well

Originally Posted by arkcrappie

An old broken tip of a jig pole
Works just as well

Yes it does. If you don't have a broken tip with you, just wait until the first snake gets in the boat with you and you will have.

GCF you need to keep the foot on ur bucket list, its a beautiful lake and when the crappie are on its a great place to fish. You may fish several times and not even see a snake and you may see ten in one outing. Its been a real bad spring for crappie on the foot but as ARK. said it should get better in a couple weeks so come on up and fish

We jigged the trees on the north end yesterday morning for bluegill. Seen 27 snakes in 5 hours. No cottonmouths all just water snakes.