That's a Big Ole Cottonmouth

[jdmidwest]

Big Ole Cottonmouth

Ran across this one online.  Seems like he washed up with the Hurricane.  Kinda sluggish from a head injury.  That is how I usually find poisonous snakes, sluggish and some kind of head trauma. 

Five and a half feet long, big around as a softball, and a head as big as a fist.  It would have flipped a 17 foot canoe if it dropped off a limb just right on one.,..

[Terrierman]

Yeah, that's a big one.  Didn't appear injured to me.  Hope they released it somewhere wild.

[David Unnerstall]

A snake of this size must hold a lot of venom.  I agree with releasing it but maybe it should have been painted fluorescent orange so it can be seen.

[ollie]

HOLY COW!!! That is HUGE Cottonmouth.

[jdmidwest]

He would be hard to hide in a patch of grass.  A head the size of a mans clenched fist.  Probably eat small children for lunch.

It would not be one I would like to come across on an adventure.  The three footers are impressive enough.

[MOPanfisher]

Big ole fat one like that would probably spend a lot of time lying in the sun.  Though it might be after eating that small chil.