ID this dead snake please

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The fact that it kept coming back makes me think that it is for sure a cotton mouth!! I trimmed the power lines in Tates Hell and killed as many as 28 in one day :o they had a tendency to come at you, not run away :o :o
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my fathers pond is full of those things, very posinous. They are not of the constricting type, more so of the biting type. Looks like someone made the right call as to what to do.
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CROCKER wrote:my fathers pond is full of those things, very posinous. They are not of the constricting type, more so of the biting type. Looks like someone made the right call as to what to do.
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COTTON MOUTH !!
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I killed a cottonmouth that looked alot like that a few years ago. The body seems much too short and fat to be a constrictor. If you still have the snake turn it over and look at the tail. If the tail is one scale across after the anus then it is a viper (cottonmouth). It it splits to two scales then it is likely something else.
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If eyes are round it is a non venomous species. If eyes are slit venomous. Its bandings look like agkistrodon piscivorous.........eastern cottonmouth. hard to tell as their bandings and colors vary. :thumbup:
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Poor snake. :smt010
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I bet it will catch you a king. Throw some stinger hooks on it and troll it around this weekend :D
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After killing it for ID purposes ( :lol:), this guide may be useful for determining poisonous from non-poisonous water snakes.

http://ufwildlife.ifas.ufl.edu/water_mo ... ison.shtml

Markings alone are probably a poor indicator.
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A black racer and an oak snake I let slide :thumbup: otherwise, if it slithers it dies :o :beer:
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Looks a lot like yours you killed.
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haha....ally told me the war story this morning....
pretty sure it was a moccasin....the behavior that you described....how the thing would not move....fits a moccasin to a "T"....they are lazy nasty creatures.....just go walk around aucilla and count how many do the same thing when you almost step on them....normally after my count gets to about 2 is when i just go back to the truck.....hate em....

as dry as it's been he was probably on the crawl seeking water....
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Okay there seems to be interest in this so I got the snake back out and took some pics of the head.

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Isn't that a picture of your law partner?
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Yessir , thats a moccassin..
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