Snake

[Clint S]

coloration and pigment depend on enviornment and diet to some degree.....just like the bass we all chase. grass bass are dark, while muddy water bass are light colored....the head to me looks alot like that of a viper.

my mother's best friend was bitten by a snake in her yard, her husband killed the snake and took a close up picture with a polaroid camera. the doctors treated her for a water moccisan(spelling?) bite based on the picture...she showed no signs of improvement and almost lost her hand from the elbow down. eventually she healed. a year later she went to a snake bite seminar at a hospital in houston. she showed the picture to the "snake bite expert doctor" he told her it was an immature and oddly dark colored copperhead and the hospital treated her for the wrong type of snake.

i'm not claiming to be a snake expert but if a snake has a diamond shape head, i stay away from it, or kill it.

copperheads are not aggresive snakes, they usually will not strike at a human unless provoked, and usually it takes a lot of provocation. whereas water moccisans are very aggresive and will go out of their way to strike at a human.

and by the way, contrary to popular beleif, snakes can bite under water. it happened to a kid when i was in high school, he was swimming in his pond and got bit by a moccisan between the toes. hahaha

just my $.02 worth.

[artcarney_agr]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Clint S &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
and by the way, contrary to popular beleif, snakes can bite under water. it happened to a kid when i was in high school, he was swimming in his pond and got bit by a moccisan between the toes. hahaha


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I've heard that before...and that's exactly why I don't fool with muddcatin', grabblin', noodlin', or whatever you want to call it! Besides, I'd rather catch'em on a rod and reel rather than risk a snake bite! I'm definitely not a fan of snakes!

[Roddy]

They sure can bite under water. I thought I'd hooked a stick on a brush hog year before last when it turned out to be a snake. He had a hold of the lure and would not let go. No hook in him but he considered my lure his. He bit it about 3-4 feet below the surface in a stake bed. Had to let him swim towards shore and jerk hard to get my hook back. My wife wanted me to cut the line.

[john n]

northern water snake

john n

[Sticks11]

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[Slow Rollin]

Daniel,

You was right on Copperhead. Now a dead copperhead.

[woody912]

fooled me, looks like spots on a light background whereas the pic Daniel posted are more light on a copper background. Big head for a non poison snake though

[flippindrew]

gives me the heebee jeebees just looking at it.

[Slow Rollin]

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Non-poison, a copperhead.

[Roddy]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Roddyrude &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> but that sure looks like the head of a pit viper. I wouldn't put my hand in the bucket with it.</TD></TR></TABLE>
FYI: Copperheads, and cottonmouths, and rattlesnakes are pit vipers. Standard viper head, coloration was a bit different.

[woody912]

Meant the coloration looked like non poisonous but the head looked like a pit viper. Cousin in Mississippi got bit by a copperhead this spring, made her pretty sick for a while but don't think it was ever life threatening

[mruss100]

Pit vipers have slit eyes not round ones like this one. Non Poisonous

[Dover]

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I'd be asking what kind of a DEAD snake it is if I had found it !!!!!!!

[30lbsack]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mruss100 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Pit vipers have slit eyes not round ones like this one. Non Poisonous</TD></TR></TABLE>

You can't see it's eyes well enough in that picture to say that.

[cowtrimmer]

FYI: Even snakes are afraid of snakes.

[Fiddlefarter]

Diamond head shape told me pit viper and coloring said copperhead. Guess i was right. Non-poisonous snakes have a "thumb" shaped head but colors vary.

[A.J.]

Man I hate snake.