Snakes

[slabbatical]

I don't see many snakes in S Georgia...I guess the gators eat them all!!!

[mperry]

I think I would rather come across a snake than a gator. To many stories of people getting dragged under and stored in a gators meat locker.

[SC.CRAB]

My wife was getting in her tree stand last year and a huge snake skin was in the seat, glad it was just a skin, after that everyone was carefull getting into their stands.

[mperry]

Snakes can show up anywhere. Anyone had one in their house before? My wife would freak out.

[hogfaninla]

My dad used to tell the story of a rather hefty fishing buddy of his...it seems one day he was fishing about 10 ft off the bank in a boat under some trees when a cottonmouth dropped in to say hello...dad said the buddy of his leaped from the boat and made it to shore barely getting his ankles wet...i bet it was funnier when he had to go back out and get his boat...

[anchorpuller]

A couple of us were tied up under a bridge on Lake Ray Hubbard at night. The lights were out and this one snake kept commin' up and snatchin my minners. I fussed about him, and my buddy in the other boat told me to pop him on the head with the end of my rod the next time. So, I waited....reeled in my line to where I could reach him with the end of my pole and watched him follow my minner to within a couple feet of the boat. I popped him on the head and I swear to ya, he JUMPED up out of the water right AT the boat. He wasn't the LITTLE snake I thought he was.. He was a BIG ole snake. I thought he was commin in! I ran up the side of that jon boat and up the bridge support. My friend in the other boat started yellin at me, cause he thought I was gonna turn us all over.
I don't know what happened to the snake, but he didn't get any more fight from me. :o
Of course, Dad's suggestion was to take his "little 22" with me the next time.
Yep.. uh huh..... I wonder how long that boat would have floated with holes in the bottom of it?

[Tellico52868]

When I use to turkey hunt. I would spend about all day in the woods. I would pack a lunch and carry it with me, and take my afternoon nap in the woods. I had fell asleep next to a downed oak tree back in the woods. I was siitting upright until I got asleep, and some how got down on my side fast asleep. I was waken by a sound on the leaves. I did not want to move because I was afraid it was a turkey. When I opened my eyes there was a 6 foot long black snake stareing right at my face. He couldn't have been morne that 2 feet away from my face. I jumped up and doen a doulbe backflip over the downed tree, and come back for my stuff after I gathered my heart. I usely don't get scared of a snake unless they take me by surprise, and that one did!!! :D

[crichison]

Two words.........Dead Snake. That's all I got to say bout that.

[Stateside99]

Being that Im from the UK, and we don't have but 3 species of snake and only one of which is slightly poisonous. This whole snake thing makes me a little uneasy but very sharp eyed when out fishing. Anyway, the wife and I are playing golf over in Union County Indiana. Im in the rough under some trees as usual, just at the top of my backswing ready to give the ball what for, when the good lady wife yells "Look at the size of the snake!!!!!!!!!"

Well, the ball skitters about 20yds Im twirling and swishing my 7 iron with my eyes closed looking like a musketeer on acid, I some how make my way back to the golf cart out of breath and covered in sweat only to see my wife pointing to a place 50 yds down the opposite side of the fairway.

[Bowcatz]

When I was a kid, I would go fishgrabbing for redeye bass in the small, shallow clear water creek behind the farm. I was pretty good at it, too, for a little kid.

One day I up and grabbed a full grown cottonmouth water moccasin. The split second I realized I had a poisonous snake all tied up around my little fist, I chunked it as far down the creek that a little kid can and I took off in the other direction screaming like Daddy's bull was chasing me out of the pasture again.

I don't fishgrab no more.

Then there was the time...

Back in 1995, I use to fish off the rocky banks below the Ross Barnett Spillway a lot on both the Madison and Rankin county sides. I was up there two or three times a week catching cats and perch. I loved fishing up there so much it wasn't funny.

When I was bored with fishing, I would explore the banks and sandbar for whatever I could find. Fishing tackle, bobbins, and curious skeletons of catfish with long spoon like noses didn't escape my eye.

A family of 'coons wanted to adopt me because I would give them small fish I had caught, but I couldn't fit in the hollow tree they lived in, so that blew that deal.

One warm July night around two in the morning I was fishing on the Rankin county side and was totally absorbed in what I was doing. Then I feel three quick pops to the back of my right leg. I was wearing very baggy jeans that night, so whatever it was that did that missed flesh. Curious, I picked up the Coleman lantern and went looking around the big rock I was sitting next to.

A small copperhead about two feet long was sliding away from the light and towards the water. This was too much of a coincidence. Yikes! I had just been struck in the leg by one dangerous snake. I gathered up my gear and went home with the few fish I had caught that night.

For the next month I'm looking in the newspaper, Dynamic Dime, and Thrifty Nickle for an old used boat I could afford. Found one about a month later for $250. It was an aluminum 12 foot Delhi made in 1977. Bought it and discovered the fun and safety of boating at night below the spillway. I gave that boat away last year and bought a brand new one. If you could see me now, you would see this nice sunburn I got from spending 8:AM to 3:30PM today below the spillway catching cats and crappie. Man, I had a great day! It was a five-smiley day for me.