I'm afraid you are all wrong...

You should have captured it live and used it for bait.

If you're gonna be outdoors you gotta expect wild animals to be around. Don't mess with them, they won't mess with you. Snakes creep me out at first sight, but then I like to check 'em out until they swim or crawl off. I catch big ole chicken snakes all the time at the barn but don't kill 'em unless they're getting my chickens.
To go out fishing somewhere and kill snakes or anything else that aren't bothering you and won't bother you is kinda lame. I used to do it a lot myself when I was younger. Maybe these guys will grow out of it. They do catch a lot of fish.

looks like a good snake to me!!! dead!

Wow, way to revive this from the long-gone dead...

What they were doing was technically illegal without the right tags, so if anything they are just posting evidence of their own misdeeds (not that it really matters, nobody really cares for the law anymore, especially if it involves killing snakes).

WTF? What does killin snakes have to with fishing from a boat or the bank. A simple solution if there are too many snakes for you find another spot.

Soooooo....you killed a diamond back water snake. They are harmless but will bite if stepped on. So would I. I see dozens of them when I go float tube fishing. They keep wide berth. They are curious creatures and will check out a lantern on the shore, and are especially curious of splashing sounds from a stringer of fish or bait bucket...they're hungry you know. A simple pop to the nose with a rod tip is all it takes to chase them away except during the mating season when they get kinda reckless.

You're an adult. Do as you please. When I was much younger I might have killed a snake or two, and would do so today if I had venomous snakes in my yard with children around. But come-on...
I find it humorous how many guys on this forum claim to be ready to go toe to toe fist fighting with a stranger at a boat ramp for looking at them funny...and yet they're afraid of a little snake? I'm just saying......

What a call,
You killed a diamond back watersnake. Completely harmless. My guess is that you preach conservation and gripe about people you see keeping the bass that they catch,huh?
I'll bet you are a bit sorry you posted this.
Bob Lovelace
Waco Texas

Bob, why resurrect a thread that was last posted to in October of 2009?

+1

i saw at least 10 of them today in my cove while fishing. as i got close to them they would leave in a hurry..... i have seen 3 cotton mouths in my years fishing and as yall know, i pretty much fish everyday. 2 of them i saw in one day (prob the same one) other than that the diamond back water snakes eat other smaller snakes. cotton mouths usually get no longer than 2ft and you prob wont ever see one as they haul butt when people come near. last week i grabed a diamond back water snake out of a small drainage ditch and threw it Angler Josh as he screamed like a little girl. the bite hurts a bit, but i bet a 3 yr old baby human would do more harm to you than a water snake. Good Job on killing it though. you are a man!

I am so tired of these "killling snakes" threads. I wouldn't even comment, except this quote I find rather funny.....



sure stuck around long enough to kill the snake, though. and take pictures.

Can someone maybe post a thread on how to determine which snakes are venomous or not and maybe which ones they might see at certain lakes, creeks, or rivers? We have a lot of bank fishermen on here and I'm sure it could be useful to them in the future. I hate snakes and get freaked out too but probably not as bad as josh. lol. If it's not a garter snake, I usually turn around because I dont know what it is since I know nothing about them. Just a thought.

Save your breath Pope..Its obvious there not the sharpest stools in the shed. That's more then likely the reason there unemployed

EXACTLY!

wow its a damn snake yall.....theres 10000000 million more !!!!!!

to me the only good snake is a dead on....

Corals are easy. There's a few species that mimic the coral so remember this rhyme : red touch black , venom lack. Red touch yellow , kill a fellow. The best solution is to leave any snake colored like that alone.

The other three native poisonous snakes in Texas are pit vipers. Pick it up and look for a small depression between the eye and the nostril. If you don't wanna do that, read on.

Nerodia (watersnakes) are colored like water moccasins (and are usually more aggressive) but they have round pupils and their heads are more round whereas the cottonmouth has a diamond-shaped head. Cottonmouths always reminded me of how a toad's head is shaped with those big bulges on the sides.

Copperheads look like a water moc except for the adult coloration which is compromised of dark (almost brown) bands and lighter tan. The head is usually (but not always) a reddish copper color but can match the lighter bands' tint. People might tell you that coppers don't get very big but I can personally testify to one that was 3.5 feet and made me scream like a girl.

Remind me to tell that story sometime.

Rattlers are pretty obvious , IMO.

The snake in the first pic is a Texas Black rat snake. They've got nasty tempers but they can eat their weight in mice and rats . I'm not downing anybody. Growing up in East Texas , every snake was a freakin' cobra so I understand the mindset. Just sayin' we need to learn the difference between friend or foe before we fire.

This should help with identification..

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/kids/wild_things/wildlife/snakes.phtml

it would not matter what kind of id you tried to teach them...i fished with them at oakpoint..and that night i caught 3 water snakes,they were eating dead shad on the bank...they thought i was crazy...i thought they were idiots...they stayed high all night long...1st and last time i fished with them...the only reason i went was to buy some abu 7000 reels from him

I have never seen a snake wave a white flag,,,,,,,,just saying

Yeah, that's what they said about the buffalo (bison).

They sell buffalo burgers now!

Wow. It's amazing how people can just go and kill animals for no reason at all. There is nothing wrong with snakes. In fact, snakes are your friends, even if you lack the good sense to realize it.

Across the many snake threads I've read here, one pattern holds VERY clear - those who trumpet the breathtakingly ignorant "the only good snake is a dead snake" belief lean heavily toward not being able to write a literate sentence that would pass in a 4th grade class.

Stuff like punctuation, capitalization, and how on Earth to deal with words ending in the letter "s" leave these people in the dust. THEY OFTEN WRITE IN ALL CAPS and like to, for some reason, put 7 commas between phrases or end EVERY sentence with 5 exclamation points. Paragraph breaks might as well be calculus to many of them.

Additionally, their powers of logic and reasoning seem to be lagging, especially when called to task for their actions.

It almost seems as if, rather than being born in a normal home and going to school, they instead congealed in a gutter or something.

In sharp contrast, those who do are offended by the wanton destruction of living things strongly tend to write much better. They seem to be the kind of people who would not consider a book a wasted gift. The kind of people who have fruit in the house even when nobody's sick. The kind of people who respect their nation and culture enough to bother learning how to write simple expressions in their native tongue without suffering a flurry of humiliating mistakes.

I've found this literate vs. semi-literate division to appear across many other issues, too. Issues much deeper than killing snakes. The differences between the thinking man and the dolt are, indeed, striking.

That is all.

hey archie,

just a snake! no biggy!

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