What Kind of snake is this??

[Tennoutdrsman]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v132/Tennoutdrsman/1011143_10200657971624092_1367533967_n_zps510f6a80 .jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Tennoutdrsman/media/1011143_10200657971624092_1367533967_n_zps510f6a80 .jpg.html)

My son looked down from the Bridge at drakes Creek Park and this was laying in the log Jam..:confused:

[TNBronzeback]

looks like a crapus inya pantus snake to me (scientific name of course)! i seen one similar to that in my recent trip to gatlinburg. Most water snakes ive seen are darker color. that may be a copper head, it looks similar to pics of them that i have seen before.

[Jmmiller33]

I hate to just agree but copperhead looks right.
http://www.tennsnakes.org/venomous_not.htm
Basically if it isnt one solid color I don't mess with it!

[txnative]

That looks like a northern water snake, they are very common in the area. I see them all the time when I fish local creeks.



Chris

[Tennoutdrsman]

WOW! It does look like the ol Copper head! he threw a rock down and it "rattled it's tail" agitated he said.

[Tennoutdrsman]

That looks like a northern water snake, they are very common in the area. I see them all the time when I fish local creeks.



Chris
True! It does!~

[Rover1966]

Many harmless snakes are multicolored. I've been around snakes for over 25 years. Used to raise and breed ball pythons, Burmese pythons, and Columbian boas. Awesome creatures...even the venomous ones.

[jaysouth]

Definitely one of those dread Rattle Back Copper Moccasins that infest all our local waterways. One bite, two steps and yore ded. Sometimes they drop out of trees and choke you to death.

[TNBronzeback]

Lmao...drop out of trees!
That reminds me of that Bill Dance blooper! i was crying i was laughing so hard at that!
ofcourse i would have shreeked like a little girl but it was funny when it happened to him...lol

[txnative]

Definitely one of those dread Rattle Back Copper Moccasins that infest all our local waterways. One bite, two steps and yore ded. Sometimes they drop out of trees and choke you to death.

This is my new go-to response when one of my pest control customers asks about a snake they saw. Well done, jaysouth, well done :D


Chris

[tkwalker]

This is my new go-to response when one of my pest control customers asks about a snake they saw. Well done, jaysouth, well done :D


Chris

I hate snakes ... But since I am getting older we tolerate each other in the barn and shop ... We meet frequently !!! I don't shot them anymore ... Unless they become a nuisance like the rattlesnake last year :eek:. .NRA would have been proud!! One shot ... 357 S&W Model 66 ...

I know it is against the law to shoot snakes in Tennessee (ECO System, which I respect) ... But I felt like My "Life was in Danger" .... .... <'TK><;)

[Reel Tune]

I like jaysouth's response the best, but I'm going with North American Banded Watersnake which are very common.

Jeremy

[geckel]

Definitely water snake. Here's a picture of one I came across the other day. I've seen more people kill this kind of snake and then show off that they just killed a copperhead....ignorance abounds.

[ditz1]

Yes sir...ignorance does abound.....and not just about snakes.

[jaysouth]

This is a true story.

One spring, my father, a fiend of his and I were tending trot lines we had set out in the Bayou Meto in Eastern AR.

I was on the bank trying to untangle some line that we had drug out of the water. My father and his friend were coming back in a jon boat from baiting another line further up the bayou.

A LARGE snake dropped out of a tree into their boat. They got out of that boat quicker than you can talk about it. It appeared that they were pushing the boat up on the bank while running ON water. They turned the boat upside down and began beating on the bottom with paddles. No snake appeared. After a few minutes consultation, they turned the boat up right and poured a pint of gasoline in the bottom of the boat. (I swear they were both sober at that point). The burning gasoline and paint did not run a snake out of the boat, however. Then the stryofoam under the seats (for floatation) caught on fire.

Thinking quickly, they drug the boat back out into the bayou and tipped it over so it would fill with water and put out the fire. They got the fire out and the boat back up on the bank. Turning it upright, a very large watersnake appeared in the bottom of the boat. My father's friend shot at it twice making some nice .38 inch holes in the bottom of the boat. The snake slithered over the gunwale and into the water, thankful that he had escaped these two armed (and alarmed and highly excitable) swamp rats with his life.

It was by good fortune that we were upstream of where we put and in and could drift back to the trucks. Which we did whilst I held two fingers over the bullet holes to keep from filling with water.

When we got the boat loaded up, the two of them braced me and made me swear that I would not repeat this story, ever, ever. To cement the deal, I got a Winchester Model 12 shotgun the next Christmas, which was a treasure that no 16 year old in my part of the world would have ever dreamed of having.

After 50 years had passed last year, I have told this story to anyone still alive who ever knew the two of them.

[txnative]

Jaysouth,

That is a great example of why the world NEEDS fishermen/fisherwomen. Without us, things like that would never happen...and the stories about them couldn't make us all laugh later.


Chris

[blink]

To me it looks like a northern water snake. Very common near water in the area.

Copperheads look very different. Attached is a photo of one of many i happened upon last year hiking in georgia.

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6214/6890774778_fba73594ff_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamslight/6890774778/)
IMGP3912 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamslight/6890774778/) by adam.slight (http://www.flickr.com/people/adamslight/), on Flickr

Here is a photo of a northern water snake. When dry they look a lot more like the one in the OP photo. This one had a bream in his mouth so he looks a bit like a cobra.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8168/7145813391_37ae0b2f8d_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamslight/7145813391/)
2012 0429 snake eating fish (http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamslight/7145813391/) by adam.slight (http://www.flickr.com/people/adamslight/), on Flickr

[CopperJohnny]

I know exactly what that is...hoop snake. They bite their own tails to form a hoop and then roll down hills and stick their poisonous barbs in their prey. You don't know how close to death you were.

[Pookie]

I'm going with banded water snake as well. Those things are all over Eastern Arkansas, and I have seen a million of them.

If you will notice, the colors are muted...unlike the brilliant color of a copperhead. It would help to have a better picture of the head, but you don't. Copperheads tend to be found closer to woods, especially rocky areas in the woods.

[SAMBOLIE]

That is a sex snake in the OP's picture.