Fished All Around Florida Sunday.

[jdmidwest]

I am sure we could go back and collect it.  It seemed to like the dock pretty well.  It was a loner.  Maybe stowed away on a boat and was trying to find his way home.

I was schooled.  It was a cotton mouth.  And it was north of the Missouri River.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I ride the Katy trail on the north side of the Missouri river in St Charles County 3-5 times per week.  I have seen cottonmouth on the north side.  I've seen every crawling thing that would live along the river bottom.  Hard to get pics when you're riding up on em.  Actually it's the best part of the ride.  I don't think I've seen a cottonmouth in a rocky area.  Always mud bottom land.  

[tjm]

The way they swim, if they are on one side they will also be on the other side, now if they had said none north of the Interstate, that would make sense -hardly anything can cross the Interstate.

[nomolites]

3 hours ago, tjm said:

When did this happen?  

Over the last 40 years in the N half of Missouri anyway.  Been in the since I was a kid and never saw bobcats(when I was a kid they were protected) until recent times. Or Armadillos.  They are getting thicker by the year.  Did call in a lion turkey hunting in some rough country along the Osage outside Linn 20 years ago; was told I must be mistaken.  Not hardly.

Mike

 

 

[tjm]

I can go ten, fifteen years at a time not seeing a bobcat if I don' set traps for them, doesn't mean they ain't there it just means I didn't hunt or trap them. they may have moved south or east or west to fill in a void where you are but having seen many as far north as Idaho and Oregon in the mid fifties I don;t see any possibility that they are trending to move north. They were in the New England states prior to the '70s.

Armadillos yes and I believe a lot of their movement is in truck loads of plastic pipe, heard about one being seen in NH 30 years ago but she didn't survive. The only way they can expand their territory is move north or swim the Gulf.

[fishinwrench]

Hell I never see a skunk unless one gets killed on the road, and obviously the woods are loaded with them because for 2 weeks in February there will be dead ones everywhere.

[jdmidwest]

Global warming is pushing southern animals north.  Any college educated person should know that. 

[fishinwrench]

18 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

Global warming is pushing southern animals north.  Any college educated person should know that. 

So do you believe that an unrealized 1.7° is enough to alter the geography of a species?

If anything I'd blame it on human land use and development.  I think those critters are trying to get away from the noise....but have run out of places to go.

[Johnsfolly]

 Armadillos have been expanding their range northward. Been seeing them in Columbia over the last five to ten years or so. So I doubt they are moving to avoid noise by heading in the suburbs😁.

[liphunter]

9 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Global warming is pushing southern animals north.  Any college educated person should know that. 

And for those of you who do not have a college education. Consider yourself lucky. Apparently your to stupid to know anything past your next bowel movement. lol 

That's got to be the funniest thing I have ever read on hear. Thanks jd.