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Friday night drive...

sfaoldguy

sfaoldguy

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I posted these on FC but figured I would post them here... Three snakes I found tonight on a very short drive with the family...
Southern Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix)
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Western Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostroma)
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Nice......it's a rare treat for me to find Copperheads.......the Cottonmouths, however, are very abundant where I live.....

Chris
 
Chris Olson said:
Nice......it's a rare treat for me to find Copperheads.......the Cottonmouths, however, are very abundant where I live.....

Chris
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When I was a kid, two of my brothers and I were fishing in the Neches river for sand bass and had two gigantic cottonmouths swim right up to us as we were wading waste deep in the river...

We ended up slapping them with the ends of our rods and they kept coming after us all the way to the bank where we killed them... Hundreds of people fish in this river during sand bass season and there were probably 50 people all around us at the river so just leaving them be wasn't really an option...

We measured the snakes and if we had documented them, they would probably be the two largest recorded cottonmouths in Texas... I haven't done a lot of research on the records, but the Texas field guide mentioned the large ones documented were just over four feet and the two that attacked us were both over six feet long...
 
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