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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
[Re: carb]
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11/03/12 03:55 AM
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bluesea112
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Snakes are cold blooded. They are not going to be swimming in cold water. Their body would shut down to a point that they would drown. They will be hunkered down under a fallen tree on land to stay warm.
Whether it is summer or winter, you are still more likely to be struck by lightning than to have a snake crawl inside your boat at night. They don't have thumbs, so they can't reach up and grab the rail of the boat to pull themselves in.
Last edited by bluesea112; 11/03/12 03:55 AM.
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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
[Re: carb]
#8192134
11/05/12 03:56 PM
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Hog Jaw
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You always wonder , if it's going to happen it will happen with me .
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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
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#8192441
11/05/12 05:18 PM
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jerk
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Get you a "No Snakes" sign
jerk waiting for a ...
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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
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#8272912
11/27/12 09:07 PM
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Spooley
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Not a problem if you will carry a pet mongoose or honey badger on board with you.
Rod & Reel PB: Blue Cat 53 lbs/12 lb test, Flathead Cat 78 lbs/20 lb test, Channel Cat 17 lbs 12 lb test, Texas common carp 40 lbs/12 lb test, White crappie 2.8 lbs, Black crappie 2.3 lbs all Lake Conroe
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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
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#8278220
11/29/12 03:13 AM
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Lure_Chunker
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Better safe than sorry. I had a swimming rattlesnake try to catch a ride in my boat once. I used my fishing rod to get it away from the boat long enough to power up and move. After that I quit taking naps on the back of the boat.
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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
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#8278309
11/29/12 03:29 AM
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rexmitchell
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Had a cotton mouth chase me on a paddle boat one night, only day I didn't bring my pistol on our lake. Broken back with a paddle and that ended his night, we went in though, to hell with that, put on the screens.
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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
[Re: bluesea112]
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11/30/12 04:01 PM
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Rob Lay
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Snakes are cold blooded. They are not going to be swimming in cold water. Their body would shut down to a point that they would drown. I thought that too, but last winter I pulled up one of my honey hole Christmas trees in my boat house, 55 degree water and there was a 5 foot Texas Rat Snake wrapped up in it as spunky as he could be. He might have been on my dock and when I went in he slipped into the water.
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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
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#8284558
11/30/12 10:05 PM
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docdoyle86
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Where I'm at the Snakes are still very active in the water.
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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
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#8290793
12/02/12 10:19 PM
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Kat-man-do
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The whole moccasin thing is overrated. Most aren't even moccasins and they very rarely enter a boat as long as you aren't going under overhanging tree limbs. They might approach and if you've got a stringer of fish, they might take a snack, but I've spent countless nights on the water in a smaller boat that yours and never had any issues, even in really grown up backwater areas. Mosquitoes is another question altogether.
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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
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#8294234
12/03/12 07:02 PM
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armadilla
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i have never had a snake crawl into the boat while it was anchored. Neither have I, but after a fishing & camping trip to Lake Ouachita in Arkansas, I don't leave my boat on the bank overnight... My wife and I camped with our neighbors who also bass fished.... We all jumped up the next morning, threw on our clothes and raced to the our boats that had been parked on the shore overnight and were racing down the lake to get to a favorite fishing hole.... Looked over and my Buddy was standing up in his seat holding on to the steering wheel while his wife had climbed up on the chair in the back deck... a snake had crawled out from under the console ... and there they were doing 50 or 60 mph down the lake with a snake in the bottom of the boat... pretty funny after it was all over....
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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
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#8295255
12/04/12 12:04 AM
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JIM SR.
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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
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01/06/13 05:48 AM
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Skeeter443
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Odds of a snake getting in the boat are slim to none, but if your worried about it put moth balls in the boat and they will stay away.
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Re: Waking up with a Water Moccasin
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#8418613
01/06/13 07:42 AM
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0311
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Zero percent chance, right now it is to cole for bugs or snakes and even if it was warm you would only have bugs to worry about.
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