I KNOW IT'S SPRING NOW

SELF | March 19, 2011 | swampsniper

[SWAMPSNIPER]

When the Cottonmouth Mocassins come out you know it's really Spring!

[The Cajun]

Reminds me of the old joke, whenever walking in the woods, never mistakenly pick up a snake to beat a stick to death.

[waterhill]

Hmm, Crappie Fry? Gimme an hour and 45, I’ll be there!lol!

Gonna Crappiefishhunt tomorrow myself! Man they are tasty!

Tonight is a pig hunt from a stand over jello/corn... red spotlight, no dogs = unhappy pups! lol...

They will love the bones and skin and offal, for sure!

[Squantos]

All in good time....stay safe !

[yarddog]

I caught this monster in my yard a couple of weeks ago. I started to shoot him but they have been known to charge when wounded.

[annieokie]

Same thing happened while our family was night fishing sitting on the bank. The guys had BB guns and were shooting at the snakes in the lake.

Those things when hit, changed directions and came right at us. How in the world did they know from where the shots came? Maybe they just reflex to the side they were hit on.

Still a mystery to me and your the first that I've seen speak of this.

[ApplegateRanch]

Heat seeking. It’s what the pits of a pit viper are for; they are infrared detectors.

[annieokie]

beautiful pictures, the flowers I mean as I hate snakes.

Heard a snake joke the other day:

Fisherman was in need of some bait, and said out loud he wished he had a frog.

About that time a snake came up out of the water with a frog in it's mouth.

The fisherman reaches down, grabs the snake, takes the frog from him, and pours some Jack Daniels down the snakes throat. Tosses him back in the water and watches him swim somewhat nutty and dazed.

Little while later, the fisherman notices that snake once again come at him, only thing now

He had TWO FROGS in his mouth.

[MaxMax]

It was probably looking for a Lone Star.

[Sawdring]

We have a pair of Robins that just moved in and have been looking for worms. Beside snow still on the ground they are a definite sign of Spring.

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

I’ll look for my photo of the LARGE copperhead that was out there a few yrs ago, on Easter Sunday.

[Alice in Wonderland]

My grandkids caught one of those . . .

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Is that a cottonmouth????

Ugh.

If I saw one of those things on my property I’d move about five states away.

[Mears]

What is that?

[Viking2002]

Ah, time for some spring crappie fishing. Gotta get as many veggies started as possible tomorrow so I can address that next weekend. I even rigged up a crappie pole for the grandkid - he's 3 1/2 now, and it's time to take him to the lake, put a red wiggler on a snelled #10 Eagle Claw for him, and turn him into an angler for life.

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[ApplegateRanch]

Polaski or mattock! They work great. Or a McLoud. Any of them is a lot more versatile than a hoe...unless you happen to be in the garden.

[yarddog]

This is the largest one I have ever killed. I shot him near my parent's house with a .30 Tokarev. The rake tine is through that hole. So heavy it was hard to hold up and part of him is still on the ground.

[Celtic Cross]

Thats a great picture! Yah wouldn't get me that close to a snake!

[yarddog]

It is an Armadillo.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Cottonmouth Mocassin, Agkistrodon piscivorus

I can tolerate them a lot better than I could a bunch of big city gangbangers and the snake actually has a valuable part to play in the environment.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Used to call them Hoover Hogs during the depression, we may be doing it again.