Contend with this while fishing

[tsubaki]

This picture came from another site that has a lot of members from the Savannah area and some from around the country.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w159/tsubaki3/Rattlesnake.jpg
Yes that is a diamondback.
The picture was taken about 15 miles south of here in an inlet about a week ago.
It's common to see them in saltwater between islands or hammocks.
(whatknot knows the place)

[C YENSEN]

i didnt know they could swim:head:

[willy]

they not only can swim but will come after your arse just cause they can

[Sean]

Looks like good Striper Bait to me:sun:

[Blue_Runner]

Either that water is 1 inch deep or that sucka floats like a piece of styrofoam!

I pitty the striper that lays into that!

[Stinky_Hooker]

Yep they can swim!

I killed two on Dauphin Island years back...one was 6'.

[nipper]

Yikes, that thing is pretty scary. That is a rattlesnake, right. Geez, do those things ever try to get on folks' boats? I could just imagine going down to the marina on a weekend to find one of those suckers in the boat!

[willy]

I hate em, one time fishing down in Louisiana with my good bud we were out in the lake in his john boat. Every ten or fifteen minutes we would have a what I call a water moccasin swim by on the water looking like they were sitting on top of the water just like that snake in the pic. , You would think they would see these big guys on a boat and beat feet, but no, they would come right for the boat and shimmy right up like a monkey on a tree and we would be doing a dance with the paddle to get them out of the boat.
While we were coming back across the lake a storm came up out of no where and turned the lake into giant wash machine and we were in a flat bottom john boat 14 feet long so we made for closest shore. As we got in along the shore there were Cyprus trees with these knees sticking out and my bud said grab them and pull us in cause we could not motor in due to the depth.
I reached down to grab the first knee I saw and just as I did four or five white mouths opened up and came up out of the knee like they were shot out of a gun.
Did not know those knees were hollow inside like a big cup.
Drank a lot of Jack that night at the Alligator Bayou Bar

[randlemanboater]

Willy, thats why I always carry a .38 with a couple of those "shot shell" rounds in it when I'm freshwater fishing.

Just don't shoot em in the boat.

[Seacrets]

Got a little something in my ditch bag for him.

[charlie_the_tuna]

sure is bouyant, aint it.

[lumberslinger178]

:bat::bat::bat::bat::bat::bat::bat::bat::bat::bat:

[THEFERMANATOR]

Which would be worse?

This one.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w159/tsubaki3/Rattlesnake.jpg
Or this one.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t271/THEFERMANATOR/00033989.jpg