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Suprise in Perch Trap!!!
Found these two snakes in my perch trap!
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Boy, those are some tough perch you have - looks like they did a number of those two bad boys!!! 
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Todd, we cut open one of the snakes and it had THREE perch in it!!!
Mike Anderson County, Texas 
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I'm guessing it's the one on the right - big ole' belly on that sucker!
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Thats correct. Poor perch...
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Aww, they're only GSF, no big loss!
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Can't tell for sure, but are those a copperhead and rattler? I'm pretty much only good at identifying live vs. dead snakes, and can comfortably say that I'm 100% on the mark that these two are, in fact, stone cold dead.
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Looks like the water snakes around here. We call them brown diamondback water snakes...no doubt that's NOT the correct name for them.
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But it's certainly a terrifying sounding name! 
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It doesn’t matter if you are swimming , turning over a boat , clearing brush , seining or checking traps when you get surprised by a crawly reptile – then it’s a -- Copperheaded Rattlemocassin !! See below for PB snake stories. That one post has lots of funny snake stories. http://www.pondboss.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=50045&page=1I got really hot clearing some brush this weekend, so I jumped in the pond for a swim. When I came to the other shore, a pretty big head of a Copperheaded Rattlemocassin popped out of the water about 5 ft away from me. Now I know that it was a Copperheaded Rattlemocassin, because as my friend tells me that that is the name of any snake that scares the heck out of you. Apparently, they come in variety of colors, shapes and sizes. Normally, my yellow lab swims circles around me, when I go for a swim. This time he didn't stand a chance, as I was hightailing it out of there so fast that I must have hydroplained. [ October 18, 2004, 03:10 PM: Message edited by: Ed Richter ]
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We called them Water Rattlers when I was growing up in North Louisiana. But I don't think that's even close to be a correct name.
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary. ~Patrick F. McManus
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Todd after reading some of the snake post I'm sure they are Copperheaded Rattlemocassin! Actually I did kill a big copperhead the same day while mowing.
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Great thread, Eric! Thanks for posting that. I am now convinced I've seen many copperheaded rattlemocassins in my time!
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That's a pretty good day in my book!
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