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With my camera :)

I remembered the post quite a wile back about our poisonous snakes. Plus every time I see one now Fins and feathers comes to mind. Well today hit the Sac arm of Truman early and made the long ride to the 54 highway bridge looking for fish. Let me say fishing sucked. A few small crappie, some spotted bass, a small hybrid and whites plus a bonus drum. Nice day to be out. A couple of eagle nests with birds on them. Truman has the Sac backed up and there are carp going crazy in some of the edges of flooded fields. OK now to the snake. A nice fat cottonmouth crossing the river at the bluff near coon creek.. Would of liked closer pictures but my fishing buddy is scared badly and wouldn't get me closer. Glad I had the telephoto lens on. He opened his mouth once but I missed the shot. After seeing this one we seen two more nearer the boat ramp, again swimming from the wintering bluffs dens towards the swamp across the river,

BilletHead

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"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

BilletHead

Posted

You should have caught it, put it in a rod tube, and shipped it to F&F! Tell him you're sending him a Loomis GLX that you didn't want anymore, LOL.

Great photos BTW.

Posted

I thought you might like the photos Scott. I like snakes and like them more than a few folks I have met in life,

BilletHead

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

BilletHead

Posted

Ive enjoyed reptiles all my life i just got lucky enough to make a business of them for awhile. A friend told me once it was far easier for him to name the list i hadnt worked with then the ones I had lol. He was right though when i stopped to think about it.

Posted

Ron, You mentioned the way they float higher than a water snake. I have also seen rattlers swimming and they float pretty high also. Wonder if that is kinda a warning sign for poisonous snakes? Kinda like the head shape.

Tom

Messing about in boats

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Posted

Ron, You mentioned the way they float higher than a water snake. I have also seen rattlers swimming and they float pretty high also. Wonder if that is kinda a warning sign for poisonous snakes? Kinda like the head shape.

Tom

I think it just makes them easier targets... :have-a-nice-day:

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here is a nice one from last year

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Gary

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