I ain't scurred.....

[3dkicker]

Yep. Ran across the Boogey man yesterday . Big fat water snake. Not the typical banded watersnake we see on the river. Almost thought it was a moccasin but the head was the wrong shape.....

Poked it a few times and it swam away.

[bcklash]

I hate snakes

[bassboogieman]

I think I've just been insulted.
OK, I'm big........... and a little over weight. But a snake? OUCH.

[nobass]

yea but your twice as scary

[bamabassman]

BWAHAHAHAHA, GOODUN DON!!


smitty.......didn't think you wuz so easly skeered. now i know what ot do when i see ya. lmao!!!

[Bassboss]

Mission accomplished I'd say! Nothin like poking and snake to piss 'im off! lol

Love snakes!

[Jrob78]

Yeah, the coloring and markings definitely look more like a moccasin than most of the water snakes I see around here. The head and body shapes are wrong though. I don't mind the snakes I see, it's the ones I don't see until the last minute that I don't like.

[bcklash]

Originally Posted by bcklash

I hate snakes

I hate snakes.

[Highhawk1948]

Back in the 70's my fishing buddy and I took refuse in an empty boat house to get out of a Florida summer lightning storm. He backed the boat in with the trolling motor and I was in the back. On the walkway was a 5 foot moccasin and as big around as my forearm. I grabbed the top of the entrance way and fought the push of the trolling motor until by buddy finally relized what was going on. I took the paddle and hit it a couple of times to kill it. We then put it in the boat to skin it out at a later date because of the size. A couple of minutes later he came alive and slithered over the side. We were young and foolish, but I always look twice when I take shelter in a boat house and never allow a snake of any kind in the boat! True story!!

[3dkicker]

You know I've heard somewhere that Lash hates snakes......

Bama I've had snakes as pets and grew up with them in the yard and sometimes in the house. No problems with them. Friend of mine is petrified though....

The Boogieman and Boogey man are completely different creatures....one is much scarier than the other.

I had just caught a keeper and the boat floated into the grass mat when my buddy spotted the snake. It wasn't forearm thick but big for a water snake. Once I poked it it just swam away under water...poking snakes no problem....poking a hornets nest....stupid!

[bcklash]

[QUOTE=3dkicker;383019]You know I've heard somewhere that Lash hates snakes......

Bama I've had snakes as pets and grew up with them in the yard and sometimes in the house. No problems with them. Friend of mine is petrified though....

The Boogieman and Boogey man are completely different creatures....one is much scarier than the other.

I had just caught a keeper and the boat floated into the grass mat when my buddy spotted the snake. It wasn't forearm thick but big for a water snake. Once I poked it it just swam away under water...poking snakes no problem....poking a hornets nest....stupid![/QUOTE]

1-I hate snakes.
2-Bassinbandit had a couple of pet pythons growing up, yea I hated them too.
3-true statement on the boogieman and the boogey man
4-Was you able to get away when you poked the hornets nest?

[bamabassman]

hahaha, smitty i hear ya pal. there is a difference.

now as for BEES............that's another story for me. i am MORTIFIED of bees. as a kid i was the ONLY one who got swarmed when a hornet, wasp, wild honey beees, or worst of all YELLOW JACKETS. so i go ape chit when there are BEES.

i'll go after a rattle snake or copper ehad to kill it for the hide. but i ain't gonna have no snake for a pet though. haha! but if there is a bee around.............well let's jsut say you DON'T want to be there poking at it while in MY boat. fella learned that the hard way in south bama.

we were fishing outta my flat bottom on the delta and came up on a wasp nest that i swear was as big as a huge pizza in diamiter. he started sling his bait at it. then he was swimming............nuff said right? hahahaha! a 25 hp tiller control motor can't out run wasps ya know.

[USMCbassman]

Originally Posted by bcklash

I hate snakes

Yep

Originally Posted by bcklash

I hate snakes.

Concur

I hate snakes....

Then again I've been bit twice by snakes, neither poisonous, but that's enough for this guy!

[lilmule]

You will find it has a copper colored belly and is quite placid for a water snake.
Pit vipers have ace of spades head much thicker body,and eyes with slits for pupils,when you see the real thing you know it not think is it.
Also while often that slate grey they have a faint pattern along the back just like a rattler,get just right one can view it or get it wet.And really wouldnt pay to poke the wrong thing,I sometimes poke them to keep them from climbing in the spash well smaller ones like to do that,but are also stubborn if after two push offs they come back 45acp with shotshell takes care of it.If you get a hitchhiker they come forward when coming on plane favorite place is console and any on deck with you poking at them are not in a good mood.There a long handle dip net comes in handy,the emergency paddle many carry is to short to dispatch with.They can strike 2/3 of body length and dont have to be coiled.
Parts of the obion wetlands that run from here to just above reelfoot have 220 per hectre thats about one every 22 sq ft,no way im yaking around there ,they the small ones will lay in a lilly pad leaf,to close to the action for me.

[3dkicker]

Originally Posted by bamabassman

hahaha, smitty i hear ya pal. there is a difference.

now as for BEES............that's another story for me. i am MORTIFIED of bees. as a kid i was the ONLY one who got swarmed when a hornet, wasp, wild honey beees, or worst of all YELLOW JACKETS. so i go ape chit when there are BEES.

I've had my fair share of episodes with the bees/wasps and learned my lesson.......but I'm not afraid of them either. Killed a couple wasps this spring that got into the house.

[bamabassman]

now why would oyu invite BEES in oyur house smitty? lol!!!! MESSING WITHCHA!! i KEEP a can of wasp spray round here. LOTS of wasps nests.

[bassboogieman]

i KEEP a can of wasp spray round here

Everybody's out to get me in this thread! I guess I need to be careful if I'm ever in your presence again John. Because in addition to being a boogieman I am also a W.A.S.P. You can pick your friends but you can't pick your ancestry.

[islandbass]

We
Are
Senselessly
Pounded

to a pulp and teased on online fishing forums. Sorry boogie, just had to.

I find snakes fascinating, but I'd rather face a great white one on one.

[Abbeysdad]

I don't much like snakes and up here in the north, they're mostly harmless - at least non poisonous. (Oh we got some rattlers up in the Adirondacks, but not much in CNY). What gets me is the surprise when you nearly step on 'em in the yard or the field and they slither and startle you!! Wife 'n Abbey hates 'em.

Not a fan of wasps none neither! Not really alergic, but as a youngster whenever I got stung I swelled up like a cyclops. I'm especially not liking nasty yellow jackets. I was mowin the lawn a couple of years ago. Ran over a nest in the ground that I did not know was there. A bunch came after me and so I bailed off the mower and ran fer it. Had about 10 stings head and back. Went back later in stealth mode and marked the hole. Sprayed that night with wasp 'n hornet spray and the next day dug out a nest the size of a cantaloupe.

[wallywallace]

hehe just sold most of my big females, but me and amber used to breed ballpythons for money, last week a water snake just like above pic, followed my frog out of some weeds, then disapeared, Zack my litle brother started fussing he got a a backlash, i moved my foot and felt a twig slap, look downa and said snake was slithering across my leg, no mocosons in my part of NC, but coppers and rattlers,, and boy are they big rattles, just put it in the lords hand and watch were ya walk.

[keithdog]

Looks like a big bass bait to me. lol How would you rig a 4 foot snake? I hear ya on the bees John. Snakes don't botheer me at all. Lik'em in fact. But anything that flies and stings freaks me out. I too have had my fair share of stings and swarms. Gives me the willies just thinking about it.

[lilmule]

Most likly catch a gator with a 4 ft one.

[the pyromaniac]

Great pic!