Bob Howard figured his Monday morning fishing outing would be pretty typical: Catch some fish, keep them or throw them back in the water.But the 54-year-old Boone resident was so startled when a "huge" water snake had latched on to his line that he almost dropped his fishing pole.
"I thought, 'Uh oh. This is bigger than I thought,'" Howard told the Register on Thursday.
Howard was fishing on Rathbun Lake in Appanoose County. He said the snake had come up from the water a few times before its surprise attack.
It was breakfast time.
"It came up and I hit in on the top of the head with my pole to get it go away," Howard said. "He went under the water then he came up close to me.
"He just kept annoying me."
What the snake was doing though, Howard said, was following his fishing bobber. The snake got close enough to where Howard's stringer was located near a little rock pile he had set up.
Then a fish went for Howard's bait and his bobber sank into the water. He reeled in his catch, but ...
"The snake just came out of nowhere and snatched it," Howard said.
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