You got that right... When you are bass fishing in NC the cottonmouths will swim a hundred yards to climb into the boat with you... Often 2 or 3 of them will come from different directions simultaneously...
Over that past 60-years, my bass boats have all ended up with lots of pockmarks from defending my "territory"...
Hi.
“...the cottonmouths will swim a hundred yards to climb into the boat with you... “
First time it happened to me I was fishing on lake Okeechobee when I was 12. Me and my buddy were watching it coming towards our boat going, “it’s not going to get in the boat...it’s not going to get in the boat is it..it’s getting in the boat!!!”
Had to fight the damn thing with an oar.
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