Fishing In The Trees,Be careful! Snakes!

[Quillback]

2 hours ago, MoCarp said:

I also hear snakes go nuts on fish on a stringer ESPECIALLY smallmouth bass over 3 lbs!..why I knew a guy looked behind his canoe and 40 snakes was chasing his stringer!

every time they stopped they tried to get in with them! was this time of year, best way to avoid snakes DON'T STRING FISH! 

Another reason to practice catch and release. 

[MoCarp]

The mental image of a drunk canoeist being chased by 40 snakes makes ROLMAO

 

[vernon]

17 hours ago, MoCarp said:

The mental image of a drunk canoeist being chased by 40 snakes makes ROLMAO

 

Puppies and bunny rabbits, puppies and bunny rabbits, puppies and bunny rabbits.........................

[denjac]

My cousin, Dr Brian Green biology professor at Missouri State told me whenever he needed cottonmouth specimens he always went to eagle rock area to get them.

[MoCarp]

1 hour ago, denjac said:

My cousin, Dr Brian Green biology professor at Missouri State told me whenever he needed cottonmouth specimens he always went to eagle rock area to get them.

I would love to know if we have any documented Hybrid cottonmouth / copperhead specimens in Missouri....if the venom is different than ether of parents

 

 

[MOPanfisher]

I wish I had a large (thinking at least 6 feet long) remote controlled cotton mouth snake, I would pick a few helpful volunteers and we would stalk Vernon and see if we could trap him in a cove with it. 

[bfishn]

32 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

I wish I had a large (thinking at least 6 feet long) remote controlled cotton mouth snake, I would pick a few helpful volunteers and we would stalk Vernon and see if we could trap him in a cove with it. 

You can get 18 inchers on Amazon for ~$25... I think 3 of them could be as effective as one 6 footer...

[MOPanfisher]

If several of us get them I bet we could make that mental image of 40 snakes chasing come true.  No amount of puppies and kittens thoughts would erase that memory.

[snagged in outlet 3]

Looks like one 18'er would work on Vernon  Big Chicken!

[bluebasser86]

I saw a huge cottonmouth down around Shell Knob a few years back fishing with my brother in law. It was fairly early in the year and it was curled up on top of the rocks sunning itself. Looked like it was waiting for someone to take it's picture for a nature documentary how perfectly it was balled up with it's head resting on it's body. I see hundreds of common water snakes (as well as various other flavors of snakes), every year, there was no mistaking this bad boy. I generally dismiss all the claims of cottonmouths I hear from my area, since they're extremely rare in NE Kansas, was pretty cool to get to see an actual cottonmouth in the wild. Don't see many copperheads, but I'm sure there's plenty around. This little guy was sunning himself up high in a bush right by the ramp of a little lake in south central Kansas.