re: What kind of snake is this???

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to much shite to figure out, I just shoot them all

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Yep same here...aint got no time to be trying to figure all that shite out

that's def a cottonmouth in downshifts pic, they're dark colored in the swamp, it has that wide head that leaves no doubt, i've walked up on them curled up on lillypads while in hipboots where they could have struck my nuts without a moments notice, i've been lucky, they are all over the damn swamp

Sloth snake.

the head will give it away everytime

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Anybody who wants to learn what they look like is welcome to go check my trail camera for me this week.

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I don't know any other way to say this without coming across as a smartarse, so here it goes:

Anybody living here in the south, especially if you are going to be wondering around in the swamps and woods, needs to know how to positively identify our poisonous snakes.

You need to know this because knowledge is power.

There are only four species of venomous snakes in the U.S.. Cottonmouth, Rattle Booger, Copperhead & Coral Snake.

You can adopt the policy of all snakes are poisonous and that will serve you well. Most of the time it's the snake that you don't see that gets you.

I had a friend once shoot a hole in the bottom of his boat because a common water snake dropped in on him when his bow nosed into some branches.

He killed the snake, but ruined a good day of fishing because he had to get the boat back to the ramp before it sunk.

Most importantly, if you are ever bitten, the EMT is gonna need to know what hit ya, so he can administer the proper anti venom.

LINK

I remember reading about this in April on Facebook. Get yourself one and keep it on you when you are when you are out fricking around in the woods.

Be the good Boy Scout and always be prepared. I will save your life.

Now, that's all I have to say about that!

That's my buddy. Dude smells like arse. Those are flies.

They didn't stink yesterday. Usually during hunting season I smell em before I see em but neither me nor my buddy smelled any yesterday.

They didn't flash their white mouths at us either. Clearly a spade head water snake

They were much less aggressive than usual.

Pretty sure the stink is a self defense thing

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Ive noticed that the north Louisiana guys are the ones always saying this,

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Only the dumb ones.

I've known what a cottonmouth was since I was 3 yrs old. My dad used to walk the creek behind my grandpaw's house and shoot them.