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| Not my picture but reposted with permission from the angler
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | Bump board it!! |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Disgusting. This is why i live up north lol. |
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Location: oswego, il | I knew adding meat to ice jigs worked well but this is innovative. |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | Doesn't look like a pure, maybe a tiger Muskie? |
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| Goodbye Fat Bastard & leader. I would cut the line and move on |
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| Oh no!
I'm not a snake expert, but that looks like a water moccasin to me...
Not sure what I'd do in that case. Put it out of it's (my) misery, let nature do what it does and then go get my lure back in a week? |
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| I guess I would hold the rod under water and try to drown it!!!! YIKES!! |
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Location: Waukesha,Wisconsin | Nope not touching that one!!! I caught a GIANT leech on my bulldawg and my husband wouldn't take off for YUK!! He just wanted to see me try and get off with a pliers!! |
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| Fat Bastard and a deadly snake.....like paging through the album from my first wedding! |
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| Looks more like a copperhead... but still, keep it away from ME!
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | esoxaddict - 9/16/2017 4:39 PM
Oh F no!
I'm not a snake expert, but that looks like a water moccasin to me...
Not sure what I'd do in that case. Put it out of it's (my) misery, let nature do what it does and then go get my lure back in a week?
Snake looks like it had a rough day. Probably would be best just to kill it. It's going to die either way, may aswell get your $40 lure back |
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Location: Southwest PA | Poor snake... ambitious as well. I would assume he met his death, that's truly the only thing you can do in that scenario! |
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| How many casts did he miss out on ....probably prime time fishing. |
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Location: E. Tenn | "The reptile of 10,000 casts"!
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| Looks like a northern water snake. They aren't poisonous, but they will try to bite you if you mess with them. I used to catch a lot of snakes when I was a kid. I would just grab it behind the head unhook it, toss it in the drink & resume fishing. |
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| Im thinking he either gets side armed around the bow (so if can't fall in the boat) or as another said held under water for a good while. |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Has the "pit viper" triangle head...beware! |
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Location: Plover, WI | fishhawk50 - 9/16/2017 1:12 PM
Bump board it!!
No don't, you'll kill it! |
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Location: The desert | A good candidate to practice stopping your lure mid cast. |
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Location: Minnesota. | Junkman - 9/16/2017 6:46 PM
Fat Bastard and a deadly snake.....like paging through the album from my first wedding!
Awesome sense o'humor.......Thanks fer the laugh!!!!!!!!!! Only on a musky forum... |
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Location: Tulsa, OK | Yeah, I think I am casting that as far as I can, over and over until that thing flies off. |
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Location: Southwest PA | Pointerpride102 - 9/17/2017 10:11 AM
A good candidate to practice stopping your lure mid cast.
Spot on! |
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| Terrible vertical hold smh |
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| Ouch!! Give him a Tylenol or Asp-rin |
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| i would throw the entire mess in the water and grab another rig. |
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Location: SE, WI. | Ive heard of attaching whole chickens ;), but not whole snakes for meat!!! Sometimes attaching a piece of yellow nylon rope will work also:) I've never filleted one of those... JD Come-on Ice Queen....you've used leeches....right?
Edited by jdsplasher 9/25/2017 6:15 AM
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| Northern watersnake, nerodia sipedon |
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Location: Toronto, Ontario | All I see is some nice looking cabbage!!! |
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| 3x northern water snake
http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/nersip.htm |
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Location: Waukee, IA | Looks like someone learned a lesson about casting at a snake swimming across the surface. But then again, maybe not |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | "I will love him and pet him and name him George." |
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X100.....I have been bitten by these ( and they do bite early and often) and muskies, muskies are way worse. Those snakes are tough, I wouldve just cut the hooks, it would survive. |
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| Greetings,
I took an undergraduate course many years ago in the science of herpetology - the study of amphibians and reptiles. The instructor had us conduct an experiment with common water snakes to determine how the snake orients itself relative to water. For example, did the snakes orient themselves relative to the position of the sun, the moon, use a visual cue (i.e. see the water) or use the grade of the soil.
I recall that the water snakes that we caught (Natrix Sipedon Sipedon) were much darker than the snake shown in the photograph of the original post - almost black.
We conducted this experiment each day for more than a week. The snakes were kept in a "cage" that sort of looked like a kid's plastic swimming pool. After being acclimated (i.e. calmed down) in the "cage", we would lift the "cage" and note which direction the snake went.
When it was all said and done, we concluded that the snakes first looked for someone to bite and then went whichever direction they felt like going.
Good fishing and tight lines!! |
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| I like that^ |
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