Has anyone tried tubing on Joe Pool? I'm new to TX, from OH, and a guy at JP said theres a pretty bad snake problem come summertime, has anyone had any trouble like this?

snakes. ahhh i eat em for breakfast.

Ignore the guys on the bank talking about snakes. You'll quickly learn that you can't tube fish anywhere that someone can see you without them talking about snakes. It's as much a part of tube fishing as getting wet.

99.999% of the time the snakes you'll see in the water are harmless water snakes. Spend some time googling water moccasins and you'll learn to identify a real threat from a non-threatening snake.

thanks for the info, I look forward to taking my tube out, as soon as I can scope out a decent quiet looking cove in Joe Pool, or lake Arlington, they are close, and I am new to TX, so anywhere else, and Id probably get lostLOL
BOB

The guy was right there are lots of snakes at joe pool.But like kd said most of the time they are harmless

claysha i dont know if this is true but i was told that joepool have one of the bigest populations of coral snakes around dfw.maybe someone on here knows more about that

I never have seen a coral out there before but thats not to say others have.I have mainly been around the cedar hill state park side fishing the banks and docks.I hope i never see one!!!!

Coral snakes are the least dangerous poisonous snake in North America. Because of their small mouth size, you would have to really want to get bitten to have one hurt you. As a tuber for almost 30 years, I can tell you that snakes are always on my mind, but I've never had a truly dangerous encounter with one. Stupid beavers scare me more than snakes!

Tubed/kayaked close to a dozen times at Joe Pool last summer, have yet to see a snake more than a few feet from shore.
Just do what KD suggested, learn what a water moccasin looks like when swimming and then go fish.
But do look around once and a while so you don't get a point blank surprise and have to turn your favorite rod into a 7 foot snake beating stick.

i tube over at briten park and sometimes the state park those are the only two places i have tried and as far as the snakes go most of the snakes at jp are just plane old water snakes and as long as you leave them alone they'll leave you alone

But do look around once and a while so you don't get a point blank surprise and have to turn your favorite rod into a 7 foot snake beating stick. [/quote]
rotflmao

[quote=K.D.]Ignore the guys on the bank talking about snakes. You'll quickly learn that you can't tube fish anywhere that someone can see you without them talking about snakes. It's as much a part of tube fishing as getting wet.

Not true- When you are fishing in 30 degree or colder weather all they want to talk about is either how crazy or how manly you are, not realizing that between insulated coveralls, thermal underwear and the fact you are pretty much out of the wind and in water warmer than the air, they are the ones getting cold. BTW- Snakes don't kill tubers- drowning kills tubers, and that is about as rare as getting struck by lightning.