Robbed!

[anchorpuller]

Yes, I'm afraid it's true. I was robbed.

One evening, sitting in the sunset beside the lake, I was showing how a lighted bobber would catch fish.
The guy with me had laughed at me and my lighted bobbers, and I had set out to show him that, not only could a GIRL catch more fish than a guy (at times), but that a lighted bobber was a good tool to use in the dark.

I didn't take a bucket, but had one of those little nylon stringers. I had caught..oh about four or five and had them strung on that little stringer with the metal end stuck in the bank holding them for me.

We sit there a bit, when the guy with me says "There is something messing with your fish"
Looking down I see the stringer going this way and that. I replied "nah, it's just the fish trying to swim away"

Another five or ten minutes pass. My lighted bobber is glowing nicely out about 35', while I watch for a bite. Then....

all of the sudden this HUGE loop of SNAKE falls up on the bank. I swear I never saw it's head, nor it's tail...just this HUGE loop.
I dropped my pole, left my chair, tackle box, bait, lantern and probably a few droppings along the way and RAN all the way back up to the house.
I don't remember the guy with me, but found him at the house when I got there. :D
The next day I, ever so cautiously, went back to the bank to gather my things. I took a loooong stick and pulled that stringer up from the water.
All that DingDang snake left me was bones!
I didn't complain. He could have em again if he wanted em.

[eastkycrappie]

ONe question you going to remember the bucket when you go next time.:p :D

[crappiekid24]

Wow. That happened to me once but I was fighting a small gill And this big snake chases it all the way in with its mouth open. Scared the crap out of me.

[gooch]

I carry a pistol and a leagal sawed off shot gun on 90% of my trips for just that purpose. You can call me chicken and I will cluck but I hate snakes.

[Tunica]

I hate educated snakes there was a day when snakes were dumb. Back in the old days a stupid snake would try and swim from across the pond to steal your stringer of fish..NOW they learned from AL Cader how to ambush. Wait till next year they'll be setting IED's under our seats on the bank.

[anchorpuller]

ONe question you going to remember the bucket when you go next time.:p :D

I might forget the bucket, but rest assured, I won't forget the "snake charmer"

[skiptomylu]

Have had them snakes attack my fish on a stringer when I was a young pup, but the biggest thing ever got my fish was a Bob Cat. I caught a 10# catfish in a pond my aunt and uncle had and I left him on a stringer over night. Well the next morning all I had left was his head and the cat left that laying on the bank.

I have also had a snake try to get in the boat with a friend and I fishing at night back in the 70's. Was a pretty exciting moment to say the least.

[porboy298]

Years ago when I was fishing out of a tube float I looked up and here came
a huge snake. well he looked huge to me. I took my pole and spashed it in front of him and he went under, which was worse because I couldn't see him.
I think that I smelled so bad he just didn't want to eat anything that smelled like that. I went to the bank and cleaned up and went home. From then on I
had a small pistol with me, just in case.
Bill

[anchorpuller]

Years ago when I was fishing out of a tube float I looked up and here came
a huge snake. well he looked huge to me. I took my pole and spashed it in front of him and he went under, which was worse because I couldn't see him.
I think that I smelled so bad he just didn't want to eat anything that smelled like that. I went to the bank and cleaned up and went home. From then on I
had a small pistol with me, just in case.
Bill

OMG! Another reason to stay in my boat!

[Darryl Morris]

I hate -- did I say I HATE snakes -- but I'd be d'ed if I'd let them get my crappie. Don't you know you can purchase grenades at your local surplus store. Just leave it to a Marine, we'll solve the problem the easy way, LOL.