What Kind of snake is this?? - FishingTN.com Tennessee's Fishing and Boating Community

Tennoutdrsman · #1 08-02-2013, 03:44 PM

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

TNBronzeback · #2 08-02-2013, 03:51 PM

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 · #3 08-02-2013, 04:00 PM

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 · #4 08-02-2013, 04:08 PM

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 · #5 08-02-2013, 04:11 PM

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

Tennoutdrsman · #6 08-02-2013, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by 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

True! It does!~

Rover1966 · #7 08-02-2013, 07:39 PM

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 · #8 08-02-2013, 09:43 PM

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 · #9 08-02-2013, 11:26 PM

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 · #10 08-02-2013, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

Chris

tkwalker · #11 08-03-2013, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by txnative

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

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 . .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 · #12 08-03-2013, 07:39 AM

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

Jeremy

geckel · #13 08-03-2013, 07:50 AM

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 · #14 08-03-2013, 10:53 AM

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

jaysouth · #15 08-03-2013, 04:32 PM

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.