Just a note to say I killed a 2 foot copperhead the other day at the pond. It swam across the pond and right up to me at the bank. I shot it in the head with a 22 about 3 feet from my foot.

I killed a 21/2 foot copperhead in the driveway about 3 weeks ago. Bad year here in Alabama for snakes.

Some cotton mouths will swim to you when you get in the water. had that problem years ago when we camped out on the Coosa River. We would get wet and soapup to wash and when we jumped in to get soap off the snake would come from a small island to check us out. We would watch and be out of the water before he got there.