Video of Anglers Encounter w/ Rattlesnake

[programgeeks]

If I were them, I'd get away from that snake as fast as my 25HP Merc could take me.

Here's the video: http://bassfan.com/tv_play.asp?id=119

[DeltaDan]

I gotta true story about a rattler and me on the water is anyone wants to hear of it.


Not fishing related.

[bassmaster89]

lets hear it

[programgeeks]

I'm all ears.

[DeltaDan]

Sometime when I was in the 5th thru 8th grade ... My family and I lived on a 34' sailboat on the weekends (when Dad was off work) and vacations. It was docked out of Pittsburg and every Friday after school we sailed to the East side of Decker Island ... and finished off with some EXCITING sail's back down the Sac to get home. ~From picking up Tostadas from New Mecca Friday afternoon for dinner once anchored, Fresh baked Rolls for Breakfast with a family game of Rummy 500, Sandwiches on Sour, BBQ Dinner with the trimmings, Egg/Sausage Scramble and rolls or Cereal the next morning ~ and grab a Tuna or PB&J Sandwich when able on the treck back to the berth when free from the Main Sac River Rollers...

Home in time to take a bath, and lay on the floor watching 60 Minuets -- while encountering sea sickness for the first time some weekends ~ as the TV would be the only thing moving constantly. ....Before school started again the next Monday morning.



Anyhow .... We also had an 8' Toro dingy/sailboat. I was out in it all the time sailing it - or rowing it to shore to go kick up some pheasants on the ouside of the sand dunes. Unless I could swim on slack tide -- or away from the boat and have the tide bring me back to it when the ladder was deployed on that side.

So I was sailing this lil' dingy out in the middle of Horseshoe Bend ~ and I almost sailed across a BIG Rattler out in the middle of the channel. That thing was sluggish and looked 3x as big as it prolly was from first site. ... From my curriosity out in the middle of the channel - never seeing a snake in the water I circled and tacked back towards it for a 2and look. Then it came to me swimming in fast mode !!

There was not enoufgh wind to buck the tide to get "away" fast enoufgh - and when I was turning to go out of my parents restricted boundry's - The wind blew the gunnel over enoufgh for it to start to come in -- so I grabbed and started slapping at it with one of the oar's. Then it got mad -- and decided the El Toro was it's only "landfall" ... Somehow it came in -- And I went over !!

I was able to reach shore on Decker .... and then walked/swam/walked back to where I could get my parents attention. The Toro ended up on the rocks on the East side of the channel ~~ and some another boater anchored nearby us had a dingy with an OB. He and my dad retrieved it - and of course the snake made it to shore via the El Toro .... and never to be seen again by me.


If only I could of watched Steve Irwin shows as a kid -- I would of OWNED that snake !!

[pb1967]

Can anybody say .38 snake shot!!

[Andrew Jackson]

What a DICK!

[bonsaibp]

What a DICK!

+1 I was hoping the snake would bite that fool