(04-23-2014 07:13 AM)MemphisTiger15 Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 09:14 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  

(04-21-2014 11:37 AM)TigerBill Wrote:  

(04-21-2014 11:34 AM)MemphisTiger15 Wrote:  

(04-21-2014 11:31 AM)TigerBill Wrote:  If anyone thinks there aren't copperheads near your location in Memphis, you're wrong. Last night, however, we had some new fun. About 2 am a pack of coyotes started screaming and they were CLOSE. Had to have been in my neighbors yard or at the street, maybe 100 yards. Fun times.

It still beats hearing rap music bumping loudly

Oh hell yes.

And gunfire.

I hear gun shots all the time in Lakeland. People shooting in the woods.

Same in Hickory Wythe; shooting armadillos, coyotes, relatives, whatever.

(04-23-2014 10:16 AM)Tanyaskees Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 11:44 AM)TigerNK Wrote:  Long and thin is a good snake. Short and thick is a bad snake.

Head same size as body is a good snake. Head wider than body is a bad snake.

There is such a thing as a good snake?

Oh heck yes. King snakes eat poisonous snakes like potato chips, cannot hurt you, and eat rats and mice when they can't find poisonous snakes. They are your friend.

(04-22-2014 10:30 PM)k2tigers Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 09:21 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 07:32 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(04-21-2014 08:17 AM)TigerNK Wrote:  Copperheads generally aren't aggressive at all. You step on them, they will bite you. Other than that, there aren't a lot of unprovoked human bites. Even though they are venomous, they are a pretty good snake. Eat a ton of mice, rats, moles, voles etc.

Cottonmouths are another story. I've had them chase after me on land and try to jump in a boat. They also have much more potent venom than the copperhead. Horrible creatures. Eat perfectly good fish, turtles, birds, and even eat other snakes. Good one is a dead one.

I've had them come off the banks chasing my boat. One fell in my boat from a tree once, my buddy jumped out and then the snake jumped out and my buddy jumped back in, it all happened so fast he didn't even get wet, lol.

I'm happily fishing in the Little Red, hauling in a lovely rainbow. All of a sudden, I see this pinkish shining snake drift by in the water, just under my pole. Shocked the H out of me. Apparently, snake dude was sunning himself on the banks and as the water rose, he got swept off into the cold water and was floating along kind of in shock and half frozen. My grandfather had the ultimate respect and dislike for water moccasins. I incorporated that into my soul from him at the age of 6.

that's just it for me. Heck, when I was 5-7 yrs old, I loved me some outdoors. All of it - camping, lakes, cabins, woods, you name it. And then I remember to this day, my Dad saying that he was scared of snakes. As we were doing our cabin, lake thing. It just stuck with me. I never got over it. I can view snakes in a zoo, but $$$$, if I see one near me, I may have a heart attack.

Spiders do that to me. The first thing I do in a cabin is check for spiders. I've been creeped out on two cabin trips recently by finding not one, but TWO large spiders in the bathtub, and on another trip, finding a large spider in the sink on my final day. And then, there was the time I arrived after dark to find a HUGE spider sitting on the doorstep just waiting for me.

(04-23-2014 01:05 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 09:21 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 07:32 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(04-21-2014 08:17 AM)TigerNK Wrote:  Copperheads generally aren't aggressive at all. You step on them, they will bite you. Other than that, there aren't a lot of unprovoked human bites. Even though they are venomous, they are a pretty good snake. Eat a ton of mice, rats, moles, voles etc.

Cottonmouths are another story. I've had them chase after me on land and try to jump in a boat. They also have much more potent venom than the copperhead. Horrible creatures. Eat perfectly good fish, turtles, birds, and even eat other snakes. Good one is a dead one.

I've had them come off the banks chasing my boat. One fell in my boat from a tree once, my buddy jumped out and then the snake jumped out and my buddy jumped back in, it all happened so fast he didn't even get wet, lol.

I'm happily fishing in the Little Red, hauling in a lovely rainbow. All of a sudden, I see this pinkish shining snake drift by in the water, just under my pole. Shocked the H out of me. Apparently, snake dude was sunning himself on the banks and as the water rose, he got swept off into the cold water and was floating along kind of in shock and half frozen. My grandfather had the ultimate respect and dislike for water moccasins. I incorporated that into my soul from him at the age of 6.

Reminds me of my grandfather. He was an avid outdoorsman, decorated WWII vet and bigger than John Wayne to me.

He wasn't afraid of anything. One day we were walking back to the Scout after a spring day of turkey hunting and we walked upon a huge water moccasin. It was probably the only time I ever saw him startled, even for that split second.

I said, I didn't think you were afraid of anything. He said he wasn't, but that he respected snakes and electricity

My grandfather was a large, outdoors guy who grew up in the Indiana countryside. He built a cabin in the Arkansas delta. He taught me to fish and to love the outdoors, but one of the first things he impressed upon me was a respect for snakes.

(04-23-2014 01:29 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 10:30 PM)k2tigers Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 09:21 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 07:32 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(04-21-2014 08:17 AM)TigerNK Wrote:  Copperheads generally aren't aggressive at all. You step on them, they will bite you. Other than that, there aren't a lot of unprovoked human bites. Even though they are venomous, they are a pretty good snake. Eat a ton of mice, rats, moles, voles etc.

Cottonmouths are another story. I've had them chase after me on land and try to jump in a boat. They also have much more potent venom than the copperhead. Horrible creatures. Eat perfectly good fish, turtles, birds, and even eat other snakes. Good one is a dead one.

I've had them come off the banks chasing my boat. One fell in my boat from a tree once, my buddy jumped out and then the snake jumped out and my buddy jumped back in, it all happened so fast he didn't even get wet, lol.

I'm happily fishing in the Little Red, hauling in a lovely rainbow. All of a sudden, I see this pinkish shining snake drift by in the water, just under my pole. Shocked the H out of me. Apparently, snake dude was sunning himself on the banks and as the water rose, he got swept off into the cold water and was floating along kind of in shock and half frozen. My grandfather had the ultimate respect and dislike for water moccasins. I incorporated that into my soul from him at the age of 6.

that's just it for me. Heck, when I was 5-7 yrs old, I loved me some outdoors. All of it - camping, lakes, cabins, woods, you name it. And then I remember to this day, my Dad saying that he was scared of snakes. As we were doing our cabin, lake thing. It just stuck with me. I never got over it. I can view snakes in a zoo, but $$$$, if I see one near me, I may have a heart attack.

Spiders do that to me. The first thing I do in a cabin is check for spiders. I've been creeped out on two cabin trips recently by finding not one, but TWO large spiders in the bathtub, and on another trip, finding a large spider in the sink on my final day. And then, there was the time I arrived after dark to find a HUGE spider sitting on the doorstep just waiting for me.

Yea, when I see one big enough, I usually apologize for interrupting it and slowly back away.....

Read this thread and looked up:

Then looked down:

And he's got a doggie door. You people scared the crap out of me, so I'm going to Walmart and buy some of that snake repellant.

(04-23-2014 07:49 PM)georgiatiger Wrote:  Read this thread and looked up:

Then looked down:

And he's got a doggie door. You people scared the crap out of me, so I'm going to Walmart and buy some of that snake repellant.

Awwwww, what a doll.

A TWRA agent told me it's more common than you'd think for someone to release a pet snake into the wild....

They usually end up in back yards or chicken coops.