I'm not a fishery just a fishing pond so I know that the balance of nature is sometimes very important. That being said I have this rather large northern diamondback water snake that lives underneath my floating dock where my fish feeder is.
It's pretty unnerving when I go out to fill the feeder up because he/she doesn't spook and just watches me through the cracks of the boards. Curious if there is any value in having it around?
I pulled up my blue heron decoys so that I'd get some birds that would hopefully nab him, but I think he's too big already. Now I have a blue heron and a huge water snake...
Do you know exactly what species it is? There's an Eastern Diamondback and a Western Diamondback, but not a Northern Diamondback. Neither species are particularly classified as "water snakes" either. If you can determine that it's not venomous, I'd leave it alone.
