sounds to me like you need to stay out of those little boats!!!

Lumpy is too big for them little boats, he is too big for my boat, when he gets up in the boat and moves to one side, ya need to grab something, cause it is kinda like a sling-shot, you could get throwed out real easy!!!

Cousin both times. Now my cousin is one of the big Hoss Cawtright types.Very natrual born strong fella type of big ol boy!
I recall him draginin a stinger once after we had fished all night at a local lake were we grew up in E.Texas. All of a sudden he starts swingit around like a lasso,keep in mind we have about a dozen catfish on this stringer,and he launches the thing out in middle of lake...I ask what the hell s going on he says there wasa cotton mouth watter mocasin wrapped up around the fish on that "dadburn" stringer. I was Rollin in the dirt LMAO.....my cousin has a thing about snakes all through his life and always has encounters with them.

Another time we were fishing a old secluded tank in the middle of a overgrown forrest. I mean we had so many fish of atleast 4 species in our basket ,it was ammazing. I noticed ahuge E. Texas snappping turtle(looks like somethin left over from dinosuar days) trying to pull basket apart to get at fish. I ask cousing to get me abig stick to wack or push the turrtle off with. Next thing I hear bend twist snapp...there my cousin stands with what used to be a small tree right out of the ground, stil lcomplete with rotts and dirt clods.....
I Didnt tell u he was from Arkansas orignally...did I?

Stirring up a hornets nest is a walk in the park compared to the disaster I would cause when startled by a snake!

Me and a buddy were pulling up to fish under a crane nest at Fork. I told him to tie us off. when he reached around the tree the bird puked a 1/2 digested bass on his bald head. He almost puked himself. I almost pee'd myself laughing at him. Paid off for him he caught the biggest Channel of his life. smell wasnt too bad after that.