re: Chased by cottonmouths (video)

One of my favorite stories is when my pawpaw and I were walking through the woods with our zebco combos and he didn't secure his hh spinner bait. We pushed through some brush and as I came out my pawpaw said "I'm hung up, can you help me out?"

I looked at this rod and reel and followed it up to a branch where I saw he had accidentally hooked a small cottonmouth.

Idk who was more scared, us or the snake. But, I learned how to pin their head down and pull a hook out of them that day.