When I was a kid (14-19yrs old), I would catch rattlers and I had three tanks with king snakes in them. I'd put the rattler in a tank and 8/10 times the king snake would kill the rattler. I lived in a community that had two ponds in it, one you could only fish one side, the other side was heavily grown up
Anyways we got a Jon boat and fished the ponds heavily, seeing copperheads and cotton mouths all the time. The most amazing thing I saw was a "ball" of cotton mouths mating. There had to have been 40-50 of them. We saw alot of swirling in the water so we eased over to check it out and that's what we saw. I've never seen it since. Somebody mentioned their temper, well lets just say keep your distance. I've Bennett chased off the water numerous times and been chased off a boat once. We pulled the trolling motor up and there it was. We were probably 8-10 ft from the bank and my feet didn't get wet. Don't know how that happened.
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