hey now! Then what would we fish for? Watch for the Carp Brigade hunting snakes if that ever happens.

I love snakes....

Watched a BIG fish snake eat a cat about 12" long. The snake rolled and rolled while it tried to swallow the cat. All of the sudden the snake went crazy then dissapered. Dont know what happened to the snake, didnt look good for the catfish.

We used to night fish out lewisville a couple years ago. One time I was out there with my brothers, and we already had a nice stringer of fish. We caught another one and I went to get the stringer out of the water. Only when I pulled on it, it wouldn't move. I figured it the fish had swam the stringer around some brush or something. So I go my brother, who was already wet, to wade into the water to get the stringer free. Since it was pitch black, i just shined the flashlite on the water, and he reached down and felt around. After about 45 seconds, he said "I got the branch" and pulled up on it. But once he pulled it out of the water, we realized it wasnt a branch. It was a huge snake, maybe 6 feet, and it had latched on to one of our fish. Needless to say, he freaked out and dropped the snake. But we were able to pull the stringer in, and since the snake had already swallowed half the fish, he couldnt let go. So once we had him on shore, the snake was screwed, and we just dropped huge rocks on him. Still, it was one of the scariest nights ever.

snakes tryed to eat the cats off my stringer at sommerville.

I also saw that happen when I was younger. It was the weirdest thing. I thought the catfish was swimming on top of the water.

2 years ago, a group of us were doing some float tubin' on Amon Carter. Near the end of the day, one of the group got out of the lake and decided to do a little exploring. A short time later, he hollered at us to get out and come see something. We all did, and we were amazed to discover a diamondback watersnake of about 4 feet working on downing a 10 inch channel cat. We all kept wondering what he would do when he got to the pectoral fins. Well, after working the cat around so that it was situated going head-first into his mouth, the snake began slowly swallowing. When his mouth reached the spines, the snakes powerful throat muscles simply folded them back, safely out of the way (Try this yourself--it isn't easy!). After a process that took more than a half hour, the entire catfish was swallowed, and the snake swam off, fatter and happier. It was one of those things you only see on Animal Planet, and we all remarked at how lucky we were to witness the event.

I've seen several snakes eat small catfish in bayou behind my house, crazyiest thing i saw tho was one day I found a watersnake on the shore eating a small catfish, when a small 2.5 ft gator was attracted by the commotion. B4 that gator got to the snake, and being the retard i am, I had my popper right in front of that gators head. Some reason they are hard to hook in the mouth, and after 10 attempts to get that gator, I snagged him in the hind foot. WHAT A FIGHT!!!!! Took 15 mins getting him to the bank, and another 10 mins to work up enouph guts to hold him down. Lure came out easy, and I broke my rod, but it was fun.

I've heard stories of large catfish being caught that had spines from bullhead and possible smaller catfish embedded in their mouths and esophaguses (?). The spines had caused no lasting damage and were being partially covered by new tissue that was growing over them.