AmBraCol , The Center Of God's Grace
Folks always ask
Monday, November 06, 2023, 17:39

about "all the snakes" down where I grew up in the Amazon Basin. I saw more snakes on one canoe trip down the Elk River in SW MO than I saw my whole life in the Basin. Granted, most of them were just water snakes, but there was at least one cottonmouth that day.

There was a lady fishing for crappies down on Grand Lake in OK about that time (mid 80's) and had a hard strike and quite a fight going on. She thought it was a bass, but turned out to be a cottonmouth. The problem was - that was the only jig the crappies were hitting that day and that was the only one she had. So she commenced trying to get it away from the snake until the line broke. Then that snake kept trying to climb the pier she was on. Her husband finally put down his book and went over and applied a boat paddle to the snake and put an end to the episode. Me? I'd just let the snake have the blamed jig - unless I could get a clear shot at it.

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I'm a peaceful man and prefer the pursuit of peaceful sports. Those involving teams and balls of any sort tend to be deleterious to one's body and promote violence by both spectators and participants.