I am also seeing more than my share of snakes this year. I try to avoid killing any living creature, but with kids at the lake, I am not taking chances(with the snakes - not the kids). When I was dating my wife, we were swimming in the middle of a lagoona and a mocasson swam straight for us. Last year my kids brought friends to my lake and when they pushed the boat from the bank, there were three snakes in a nest underneeth. Last weekend one came straight at me. Maybe they are just curious, but I don't want to find out. If I knew that they are not poisonous, I would leave them alone and enjoy watching them. I heard that you can identify poisonous snakes by the pupils. I try to kill them or run long before I see them eye to eye. Does anyone know better way of identifying poisonous snakes?
I am pretty sure that most of mine are mocassons. They have nice pattern that gets lost in the upper black body. Ehm, I haven't shot one on shore so I could take a close look at it. I am not even sure that I hit one at all, but at least they must be going deaf from all the close shots.
