Narrows of the Harpeth report?

[Fishbus]

Planning a trip Saturday.

Anybody been out to see water levels, conditions, etc...?

Thanks,

Billy

[Adough]

We were out there Saturday. Low and slow, felt like a bath tub. Red eye and gar were both aggressive though! Without rain it will be below 2ft by Saturday.

[Fishbus]

How was the takeout?

MNFisher reports that it was washed out a few weeks ago...

[MNfisher]

MNFisher reports that it was washed out a few weeks ago...


Nope, not me...never been to the Harpeth...haha


Mike

[ThrillSeeker]

Be careful....I hear there are a lot of cottonmouths in the Harpeth.

:p

[Fishbus]

I thought you were TNMikeYak on Geoff's site...

My bad!

Billy

Nope, not me...never been to the Harpeth...haha


Mike

[GO-OKFISHIN]

It's actually perfect. May not stay that way with these storms coming in though.

[MNfisher]

I thought you were TNMikeYak on Geoff's site...

My bad!

Billy


No worries!


Mike

[Adough]

The takeout is a bit washed out. It will only allow one vehicle at a time atm. The Ranger said that they would fix it asap but, water levels have to allow. And we have seen lots of cottonmouths this year.

[Farley]

Someone please take some pictures of the cottonmouths. I've spent a lot of time on all of the Harpeth Rivers in the area and have never seen one.

[jad2t]

Someone please take some pictures of the cottonmouths. I've spent a lot of time on all of the Harpeth Rivers in the area and have never seen one.

I'm afraid to get close enough for a pic but they're everywhere!

[Adough]

Flow shouldn't be a problem for the next couple of days! Gauges reporting over an inch of rain, paired with an increase of 2ft in depth!

[MNfisher]

I'm afraid to get close enough for a pic but they're everywhere!


Haven't seen one yet in my 3 years here.


Mike

[jaysouth]

Haven't seen one yet in my 3 years here.


Mike

This is kind of an inside joke. If you find a honey hole, do not every tell anyone. If someone figures it out, be sure and tell them that you almost got bitten three times by cotton mouths and stepped on a rattle snake while launching. This kinds of gets their attention because a bite from a cottonmouth in very painful and expensive. Figure a week in the hospital, several surgeries and two or three doses of anti-venom at $10-12,000 a pop.

As MNfisher, I have never seen one in the Harpeth. After spending the summers of my youth working in rice fields, I am not only an authority on what they look like, but could smell one 6-10 feet away.

Last summer, I had a TWRA biologist tell me that he had never seen one East of Dixon and except for this old guy that lies outragously, he had never heard of one east of Dixon. He rolled his eye at me, but I kept a studly and steely face.

[GO-OKFISHIN]

There is a creek in the Harpeth watershed that has them.

http://www.tennsnakes.org/Cottonmouth%20Brochure.pdf. Look at the range map.

[Farley]

There is a creek in the Harpeth watershed that has them.

http://www.tennsnakes.org/Cottonmouth%20Brochure.pdf. Look at the range map.

There is a big difference in it being on the far edge of the range and saying it is covered up with them. It is covered up with banded water snakes and that is exactly what people are calling cottonmouths.

[GO-OKFISHIN]

There is a big difference in it being on the far edge of the range and saying it is covered up with them. It is covered up with banded water snakes and that is exactly what people are calling cottonmouths.

Jaysouth said that as a way to keep people out of his fishing hole. I do know of a creek in the Harpeth watershed that has at least 1. Never seen one on the Harpeth.

[Adough]

I was just speaking with one of the rangers for the Narrows, she's been there for years. She, said for a fact, that she knows where several nests are. Given that this is a public forum I won't repeat their locations but, they're much closer to the access points than many people would be comfortable with. We also used to access the Harpeth via a creek,closer to Bellevue, none of us will ever hike that again without snake guards on. I'd be reluctant to say that there aren't thousands of cottonmouths on the river. They are generally not aggressive.