Nightmares: Wyo Angler Reminds Public That Rattlesnakes Swim In Lakes, Reservoirs

https://cowboystatedaily.com ^ | July 20, 2022 | By Clair McFarland, Cowboy State Daily

[Savage Beast]

If you kill a rattlesnake, will the eco-nutcases have you thrown in jail and fined?

[sport]

If they can.

[Red Badger]

Only if you kill the two-legged kind......................

[Dust in the Wind]

I'd never thought about them swimming before I saw one crossing a creek near where I live. Grew up miles from any water bodies but plenty of snakes.

Carried one out of my shop this past Friday. I'd offered it a hot beverage but it was rejected so I dispatched him and went into the house and spent a while cooling down and lowering my heart rate. Not the first of the hated critters in my shop; it's a wonder I get any work done in there.

[Red Badger]

When I was a kid way back in the 60’s, I was playing ‘Batman’ and under the above-grade house was my ‘Batcave’.

I had been under there for a while, and accidentally kicked an old stovepipe.

It felt oddly heavy since I knew what one was and how much it was supposed to weigh.

I crawled around to look into the end of it and came face to face with a COPPERHEAD!.....................

[Dust in the Wind]

Whoa!! I don't go out of my way to hunt them but I've all my life end gamed all rattlers in close proximity to my living space.
I've had weird dreams the past few nights.

[Midwesterner53]

Fishing in deep south Georgia when I was growing up, we always took a shotgun in the boat with us just for this reason. We mainly saw copperheads, never a rattler.

[4 Libertys sake]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fkaldvt3EOw

[circlecity]

One place I like those 410 shotgun shell pistols (like the Governor) is in a boat. They are great snake guns.

[NetAddicted]

Is this a true story?

[Red Badger]

Which one?...........🤣😂😉..........................

[1Old Pro]

half the people responding to the post were shocked that rattlesnakes would swim across the lake

There's a protected nest in the Adirondacks. The rattlers swim across Lake George and are often found on the Islands.

[1Old Pro]

I don’t know what happened to the rattlesnake

He died, from laughter.

[Red Badger]

[Night Hides Not]

Were Liz Cheney and Kinzinger swimming, too?

[Socon-Econ]

Yes, most snakes can swim. Scary to watch Cobras do it.

[Dust in the Wind]

LOL

[girlangler]

Myself and another person were going fishing in my 17-foot canoe once, and we picked up the vessel and carried it over our heads. We strapped it on top of the car and drove to the lake, and when we took it off the car and turned it over there was a snake in it. Fortunately it wan’t poisonous. I had a friend in Louisiana who lifted his stringer of fish into his boat and there was a cottonmouth hanging onto a fish. It bit him. I’m not sure how he got it out of the boat.

[Psalm 73]

"Yes, most snakes can swim."

Grew up down south - nothing ruins a hazy, hot, humid day at the swimmin' hole than the sight of a few snakes in the water.

[BiteYourSelf]

Shotgun will sink a boat real quick.😁