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I grew up around rattlesnakes here which most of the time are pretty docile and just want to be let alone. We have very few cottonmouths this far west but I’d always heard how bad they were and attributed it to people exaggerating like they do about most any snake.
And then I moved to SE Oklahoma for a couple years and got better acquainted with the cottonmouth. And yeah, Fugg those things, most aggressive snakes I’ve ever seen. Way worse than your run of the mill rattler.
I grew up around rattlesnakes here which most of the time are pretty docile and just want to be let alone. We have very few cottonmouths this far west but I’d always heard how bad they were and attributed it to people exaggerating like they do about most any snake.
And then I moved to SE Oklahoma for a couple years and got better acquainted with the cottonmouth. And yeah, Fugg those things, most aggressive snakes I’ve ever seen. Way worse than your run of the mill rattler.
I agree, I've been struck by a rattler but I literally had to step on him. All others, really didnt care I was there, take that back, we had a small one once that charged us, he was maybe 2 ft long. Copperheads will stand their ground pretty good too. They can be pretty fiesty. We've had moccasins swim out to the boat and back just trying to make us leave. But when you walk up on one they just coil up and show that white mouth.
I think a lot of times people mistake a northern water snake for them. They are more aggressive than a cotton mouth in my experience. I cant stand those things. I had one try to climb into a kayak with me once.
I grew up around rattlesnakes here which most of the time are pretty docile and just want to be let alone. We have very few cottonmouths this far west but I’d always heard how bad they were and attributed it to people exaggerating like they do about most any snake.
And then I moved to SE Oklahoma for a couple years and got better acquainted with the cottonmouth. And yeah, Fugg those things, most aggressive snakes I’ve ever seen. Way worse than your run of the mill rattler.
I agree, I've been struck by a rattler but I literally had to step on him. All others, really didnt care I was there, take that back, we had a small one once that charged us, he was maybe 2 ft long. Copperheads will stand their ground pretty good too. They can be pretty fiesty. We've had moccasins swim out to the boat and back just trying to make us leave. But when you walk up on one they just coil up and show that white mouth.
I think a lot of times people mistake a northern water snake for them. They are more aggressive than a cotton mouth in my experience. I cant stand those things. I had one try to climb into a kayak with me once.
Those Northern water snakes are big brown nasty bastards.
Like you say, aggressive too. I had one get in a fish trap once when I was trying to catch perch for Flathead bait. He was dead when I got the trap up but I still had a hell of a time getting balls enough to get him out.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
