re: Snake Stories: Too Close for Comfort Edition

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I don't know about the rest of the south but Moccasins are rare if not non-existent above I-20 in Georgia. Brown water snakes are eerywhere though....

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Seems to me, that it depends on the creek. I grew up a little west of Huntsville Al. and there were 4 creeks that came together just a little ways from our house, and we use to fish all of them. 3 of the creeks had kind of fast moving water and you didn't see many cottonmouths on them, plenty of water snakes though, the other creek, was slower moving, and came through a couple swamps. It was full of cottonmouths.
The faster moving creeks don't have as much grass overhangs and stuff and have more rocky banks, it doesn't give them as good places to hide and hunt.