Over the years I got to know several of the old guides on Caddo Lake; one of them told me this story about a guy he was guiding. They were going into the Turtle shell and the guide was busy taking a bird's nest out of this fellor's reel; the big flat bottom boat slid up under some cypress limbs and this big moccasin gets knocked into the boat. Before the guide could say anything the fellow he was guiding whipped out his automatic 9 mm and commences to shoot at the snake. The snake is bewildered by the noise and he is trying to escape, inadvertantly scooting right toward the shooter, who blazes away as he hops around the front deck and tries to climb up on the elevated seat. The snake goes over the side, the fellow is on his knees in the elevated seat, gun still smoking, and the guide is watching water squirt thru the holes in the boat. Hearing the story, I laughed so hard I almost passed out and on the way home I got to thinking about the scene and had to pull over to laugh some more.
The guide told me he had 6 holes in the bottom of his flat bottom but the fellow was good about it and paid him for damages. I guess he thought that if he paid the guide wouldn't tell anyone what happened.-p-

Snakes have venom. You have to ingest poison.