uncle shot a 5' rattler, while we were squrrel hunting, somewhere around lagrange. that was back in the late 70s.
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uncle shot a 5' rattler, while we were squrrel hunting, somewhere around lagrange. that was back in the late 70s.
Hands Clapping I second that!Quote:
Originally Posted by gabowman
Every july back in the 80s we used to pick Catalpa Worms in Roselawn In. behind the Hooks drugstore. There were plenty of Rattlers there, havent been there in 30yrs. cause i dont fish catfish anymore.
I have seen one copperhead in my life that was after it had struck at my son squirrel hunting after he had shot and not gotten a squirrel I asked if he misssed he took me too the snake there were a bunch of baby copperheads there which we left alone. Mushroom hunting about 9 years ago my weimeraner cornered a timber rattler in a brush pile. It kept striking at the dog but the dog seemed to know just how close to get. We let that one go too.
NE corner here, seen little Mississauga rattlers at a couple of boat ramps sunning themselves. Thankfully copperhead-free after 58 years up here so far as I know.
I saw this post when it started and had not replied to it... I have never seen a poisonous snake in indiana. Well was the harrison ohio/indiana border on the whitewater river with my boy at the motocross track. Being i love to fish walked over to the river and in the treatment plant discharge was a copperhead feeding on minnows! I will be on high alert now i saw that dude! Big and fat nasty snake! be on high alert now i saw that dude! Big and fat nasty snake!
I saw a 4' cottonmouth on Monroe last weekend sunning itself on a log.
DNR claims we don't have any cottonmouths in Indiana,,did it have the viper type head? That is what you have to look for in water type snakes. I am pretty sure,,I have never seen a cottonmouth in Indiana,,but have seen plenty in the south all the way down to Everglades where I have kayaked and canoed exploring parts of it.
There are supposed to be a few in a swampy area of Dubois county but I have never seen one here.Quote:
Originally Posted by cevans
Here is some info on our snakes.
http://herpcenter.ipfw.edu/outreach/...s/INsnakes.htm
Dubois County is the only place in Indiana where a confirmed cottonmouth sighting has ever occurred...anyone who doesn't see a lot of big snakes, or is not familiar with the water snakes of Indiana I suppose could easily assume that the snake they saw was a cottonmouth, but rest assured, it wasn't.