re: Snake ID. Eye level devil

quote:

---

That's a big snake right there. When I was a kid I caught one that measured 6'6". He was slithering along the ground and I heard the leaves rustling from about 30' away. I ran over and he was going into a hollow in the trunk of a tree. I jumped to the other side of the tree to surprise him when he came out the other side, waited a couple seconds, then didn't see him. Looked into the hollow and he was going up into the center of the tree, actually into the inside of the trunk.I grabbed ahold of him and we had a tug of war. I was about to give up when I started hearing crackling sounds (didn't want to harm the snake), but he gave up and I pulled him out of the trunk. Biggest snake I ever caught, though I caught a 6'4" a week later that was considerably thicker. We've also climbed trees to shake them out of upper branches. They do love to climb. When I lived in Braithwaite, my wife found one in the mailbox.She swore that I put it there. pm

---

Used to love catching big rat snakes as a kid. Biggest I caught was around 6'. I brought it home and kept it as a pet. It was so mean you'd have to hold its head awhile before it would calm down. I would put my ski gloves on and sorta box with it. Basically just waving my hands and having it rear up and strike.

I lived right next to Thomas Park in Lafayette. I would put that huge rat snake on the jogging trail and hide and watch the joggers freak out when they passed by and my rat snake would rear up about 2 feet in the air thinking the jogger wanted to "box". Being a kid was good times.

Ya'll are freaking insane...and not in the good way.

Just FYI.

(no message)

quote:

---

What's up with all these snake lovers?

---

There are a few true outdoorsmen who aren't afraid of wildlife on this board.

Rat snake

Great climbers when hungry, terrible when full. We had one of the biggest ive seen drop off the porch during a crawfish boil. Apparently he had gotten up into the attic area and got full on eggs or birds and couldnt climb down as gracefully as he climbed up

i had a shop full of rats where i kept all my hunting and fishing equipment. One day i was standing in the door when something fell out of the rafters and almost hit my shoulder on the way to the floor. 3' rat snake, which i caught then released back in the shop to hunt.