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Way more meat in that snake than a mess of frogs. A lot tougher but just as tasty.Nice snake.
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I killed a snake just exactly like that and was told it was a banded water snake? Okay some of you down home southern boys educate me on this cuz we do not have such critters in my home state of Montana! Just prairie rattlers and bullsnakes!
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One big tip off is that on the watersnake,the dark bands are wide on top of the back.Just the opposite on the cottonmouth.
The cross bands on the cottonmouth will be mostly unboken,especially on the front half of the body.The watersnake will usually have a good many broken bands.
It takes closer inspection but not hard to do on a dead snake or even a good digital picture-water snakes have round pupils,cottonmouth's are eliptical,like a cat.
On the underside of the tail,the watersnake has a double row of scales,full length of the tail and on the cottonmouth there is just a single row.
A lot of people have truble telling them apart but side by side,they are very different.Similar colors,both heavy snakes and both can be very fiesty.The cottonmouth usually stands it's ground or moves off slowly whereas the watersnake,if not cornered,takes off in a flash.
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And regarding the "lump" in the belly,I believe that one is full of babies.That bulge is too far back for it to be the stomach.A frog would be dissolved before it got that far back.I believe there are a slew of babies in there.Easy enough to find out.
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Thats really cool.Can you get a mount of it?
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yeah it turns out it is a banded water snake, either way i dont like snakes....when i skinned him the lump was a big frog...no babies in this one. its gonna make a nice skin when dried though
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There are pleanty of those guys around my place. I would rather have them then a cotton mouth any day.
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Had to beat one off with a paddle that was trying to hitch a ride. Persistent fellow he was.
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you dont know how many people have been bitten by "Dead Snakes" they went to pick up
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always cracks me up me to hear grown men who weigh #150+ (at least ) , possess higher cerebral function and opposable thumbs freely admit to being scared to death of a limbless reptile that won't go #10 soaking wet. and BTW, i grew up in an area with plenty of snakes... i live in alaska because i am skeered of ticks
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i thank God we dont have em in this country. good shot indeed![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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