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re: Cottonmouth Photos/Video from Sunday
Posted on 9/17/26 at 4:31 pm to Masterag
Posted on 9/17/26 at 4:31 pm to Masterag
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People always say they aren’t aggressive and won’t charge. But my first experience with one up close was with me, my paw paw, and my great uncle who had ptsd fishing on Caddo Lake in a flat bottom boat. The snake dropped out a tree, into the water, then climbed up the transom and got into the boat. I was sitting in between my paw paw and my great uncle in the back who flipped out and nearly rocked us out of the boat. My uncle managed to keep the snake at bay, but we had nothing to kill it with cause it was wrapped around the oar. So paw paw trolled us back to shore to get something to hit it with, when some ol baws pulled up beside us and whacked it with a spent shell casing from a tank one of them had on hand.
That doesn't sound like a snake that was aggressive, or that charged.
Posted on 9/19/26 at 10:19 am to glassman
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That's exactly how you would get a bite.
The moccasin bites I’ve witnessed were all deserved
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:34 pm to Funky Tide 8
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That doesn't sound like a snake that was aggressive, or that charged.
this snake was hanging out in a cypress tree until we boat in to fish, then drops into the water, then swims 50 ft. to climb into our boat.
Posted on 9/22/26 at 4:06 pm to Masterag
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this snake was hanging out in a cypress tree until we boat in to fish, then drops into the water, then swims 50 ft. to climb into our boat.
yeah it probably fell out of the tree and was likely just trying to get out of the water and saw your boat as a good opportunity to do so.
Posted on 9/23/26 at 1:45 pm to Masterag
The largest cottonmouth I've ever seen was in Tete Bayou off Lake Faussee Pointe closer to the Lake.
In a flat bottom with my Dad and brother and it raised up on the surface of the water in a striking position coming towards the boat aggressively, when it had both banks easily reachable.
My dad kept it at bay with a paddle until getting the outboard cranked, but it never backed down. Til this day the only time I've seen one not cornered behave that way
In a flat bottom with my Dad and brother and it raised up on the surface of the water in a striking position coming towards the boat aggressively, when it had both banks easily reachable.
My dad kept it at bay with a paddle until getting the outboard cranked, but it never backed down. Til this day the only time I've seen one not cornered behave that way
Posted on 9/23/26 at 2:13 pm to Funky Tide 8
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yeah it probably fell out of the tree and was likely just trying to get out of the water and saw your boat as a good opportunity to do so.
No man, no. I remember this like yesterday. The snake slithered, not fell, out of the tree. Then swam at least 50 ft. over to the boat. Literally every move was deliberate.
Posted on 9/23/26 at 7:33 pm to Funky Tide 8
Nobody is going to believe this story but it's true nonetheless.
When I was a kid my brother and I would go to the pond by the house to catch bream on beetle spins hand over fist. We saw a huge snake on a log that was half submerged. He ran home to get a shotgun while I sat and kept my eyes on it. We assumed this was a big water snake because we'd killed tons of those in this pond which was right by the house.
He gets back and shoots it from shore but he missed the head and the thing recoiled, popped that mouth open and flashed that cotton then he did something to this day I don't get. He bit himself. Popped the mouth back open and bro shot him in the head and it flopped dead on the log. And it stayed there.
So we're looking at each other like we just saw a ghost. Because we both said it was 8 feet long and we knew that wasn't possible so we got a canoe and went back to get it. This would have been late seventies so no parents involved in this scenario anywhere.
We got out there to it and it was still there but it looked like it was about to work it's way off the log and no feaking way are we reaching into the water for it. It was so fat the body was laying across both sides of the log. Looking back on it that snake was like calf sized at his biggest part. Fat to the tail then skinny. So me being in the back of the canoe and the older brother I naturally asigned him to grab it. To which the future Seal looked at me like I had lost my mind and he was concerned for me. So I talked him into doing it with boat paddles. And thats how it slid off the log and disappeared forever.
I don't think it was 8 feet long now. But I would not be amazed if it was seven. The head on it was enormous.
Commence disbelief!
When I was a kid my brother and I would go to the pond by the house to catch bream on beetle spins hand over fist. We saw a huge snake on a log that was half submerged. He ran home to get a shotgun while I sat and kept my eyes on it. We assumed this was a big water snake because we'd killed tons of those in this pond which was right by the house.
He gets back and shoots it from shore but he missed the head and the thing recoiled, popped that mouth open and flashed that cotton then he did something to this day I don't get. He bit himself. Popped the mouth back open and bro shot him in the head and it flopped dead on the log. And it stayed there.
So we're looking at each other like we just saw a ghost. Because we both said it was 8 feet long and we knew that wasn't possible so we got a canoe and went back to get it. This would have been late seventies so no parents involved in this scenario anywhere.
We got out there to it and it was still there but it looked like it was about to work it's way off the log and no feaking way are we reaching into the water for it. It was so fat the body was laying across both sides of the log. Looking back on it that snake was like calf sized at his biggest part. Fat to the tail then skinny. So me being in the back of the canoe and the older brother I naturally asigned him to grab it. To which the future Seal looked at me like I had lost my mind and he was concerned for me. So I talked him into doing it with boat paddles. And thats how it slid off the log and disappeared forever.
I don't think it was 8 feet long now. But I would not be amazed if it was seven. The head on it was enormous.
Commence disbelief!
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