Myself, DAMFISHERMEN and Bullprick were out on lake Dallas last night and the snakes were everywhere so i decided to keep them under control.

posted in the wrong section O.o

I'm sorry that you feel like you have to kill snakes to 'keep them under control'. Most snake are harmless and beneficial, and are more afraid of you than you are of them.
No, I'm not a PETA member, but I don't like killing for killing's sake. And I like snakes.

some of them may be be harmless but im not going to stick around to find out whether one is or not sorry

I have to agree here. I rarely feel the need to kill snakes or any wild animals unless it's in my house and posing a threat to me or someone else.

we cover 80 yards of bank....why should we have to worry about stepping on a damn snake.

Educate yourself about the importance of snakes

I'd rather have a snake in my backyard right now then these rats that are eating my food and making me have heart attacks at night when I walk around in the dark.

It makes him feel big. You don't have to worry about stepping on harmless watersnakes. If you think they may be dangerous and you wouldn't hang around to find out, why is there a photo of one? You should have been long gone.

Leave him alone while he kills harmless animals in efforts to build his self esteem (beats chest).

Hey aren't you the snake capturing guy ?

I teach biology and work with snakes in my free time.

I don't like harming snakes but I'd don't think I would really want to gout and find them either.

We capture snakes to gather data, but I would be lying if I said I wouldn't do it otherwise. I spend as much time hunting snakes as I do fishing, maybe more. It is a lot of fun. We have a forum dedicated to it. Check out some of our posts and tell me it doesn't look interesting.

Headed to bed. I have an appointment with some brushpiles.

http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/index.php

I know watch a lot snake documentaries and I can tell it's fun but dangerous but I guess life itself dangerous.

+1

WOW...I ran over a rabbit that was on a suicide mission once! Nibbler I bet you are loosing sleep over this?? You are grounded and can not fish for a week.

man i am losing TONS of sleep over killing a snake. but lemme tell ya it makes me feel big and boost my self esteem (beats chest)

What kind of snake was that? If it wasnt posing a risk, why kill it? I hate snakes, with a passion, but I'm not just gonna tear up any old snake.

quit pissing people off and use your time to find a job. If anyone knows of any job openings, Nibbler AND Damfisherman are looking for one.

I think most people who fish in a boat don't harm snakes, and probably don't eat the fish they catch.

But I fish banks too, and at 5:00 am while hiking and I see a snake that comes close to not looking like a garter snake, it gets a rock thrown at it. There is no opportunity for me to take a chance. Where there is one snake, there are more. I have a family and I don't want to be bitten by a moccasin 2 miles from the vehicle. If the snake is that afraid, it should take off. I don't sit around the corner waiting for one to walk up and scare the heck out of it.

The other day, I was bank fishing and stepped on a 4 foot rock, a giant black and brown snake took off. It was about 3 feet long but as big around as a baseball. Freaked me out. One bite is all it takes, and it seem those watery snakes are really aggressive.

On the other hand, I caught a 6 foot rat snake in my back yard and moved it down the road to a forested area. My kids don't need to be bitten by a snake, venomous or not, and get infected. I didn't kill it.

All I am saying is don't kill for killing sake, but don't take any chances when you are on foot unless you are the survival guy on tv.

p.s. real bank fishing, you are always watching out for wild things, especially in Texas - snakes, spiders, ants, killer bees, falling in the water, rock slides, poison ivy, falling on rocks and of course, hooking yourself. Stay on alert.

For any reptile and animal lover growing up in Texas it is saddening to see such ignorant behavior towards our native snakes. When I was a kid I found a brown snake at our ranch in east Texas and put it in a five gallon bucket. I was so excited to show my family what I found, so I brought it back to the house and made everyone come look. When my uncle saw it he said "thats a water moccasin." and grabbed a shovel and cut its head off. I was only 7 or 8 and knew what kind of snake it was. Of course I was very upset, and couldn't believe how ignorant my uncle could be, especially since he grew up in same town our ranch is in and has lived there nearly all his life.

There are only 4 real human-threatening snakes in DFW area: The Copperhead, Cottonmouth/Water Moccasin, Rattlesnake, and Coral snakes. It takes all of five minutes to educate yourself on what they look like...

http://www.creativemix.com/snaketalk/dfw/

If you run into a snake in the wild you should consider yourself lucky to observe it, I search for snakes in my free time wading in creeks and trekking deep into the woods, and more often than not I wont find anything. Never have I found a coral snake or a rattlesnake in Tarrant or Dallas county. I also have never been bit, and I've picked up a lot of wild snakes in my life.

Think about this... what if I went down to my local neighborhood park and started cutting the heads off of swans and geese or caught fish and just threw them all on the bank. Seems pretty stupid, right?

Poor Damfisherman. He thinks logical thinking is illogical.

Illogical thinking is drawing conclusions even with proper or informed data.

An example-
College student listens to his logic teacher explain- "If we asked a man if he owns a weed eater, then we can logically deduce he owns a yard, which means logically he probably owns a house. If a man says he has children we can logically deduce that he is straight."

The college kids thinks that's pretty reasonable, and goes home to try it out on his dad. "Hey, Dad, let me show you what we learned in Logic 101 today; tell me, do you own a weed eater?" To which the dad replies, " No, I don't." The Son's eyes dilate and his mouths drops open, "Dad, your gay?"

This is the same illogical reasoning used when you deduced the prior response equated to