No. Snake. Is. Harmless.
None. At. All. (HA!)
I CAN dig for earthworms though...!!! And hold them, and bait a hook...now aren’t you proud of me?
Fishing is better with blood suckers and needle nose plyers to pick them out of the bucket...one sucker will last 1/2 day of catching (not fishing) :O)
My dad is snake-phobic so yeah, I understand.
Poor man...he spawned a kid who was *constantly* catching and toting home every snake she could find.
[my bad]
He nearly had a heart attack when I brought home a dead Copperhead, skinned it and boarded it and left it on the front porch to dry.
[it was big enough for a really cool belt]
*How* he mistook a flayed and stretched Copperhead _nailed to a board_ for anything “deadly” was beyond my kenning.
At any rate, he woke me up at midnight when he got home from work and made me go out and carry it deep into the woods to throw it away.
Pffft.
There *used* to be an 8 foot black rat snake living in my root cellar.
We had no mouse problem.
Then, he and the also-phobic neighbor found it sunning itself in the land and the next I knew, it was headless and lying in the stream bed beside the lane.
They were very proud of themselves.
And now I have mice.
God put snakes here for a reason.