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IslandMike · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:59 am Post subject: The luckiest man alive

Me. Last night I went wading with a buddy. I was diggin out a backlash and had hand lined my lure back in and dropped it at my feet. I was focused on the reel and didn't notice for a minute what was at my feet. It was between me and the lure. I was less than a foot away. How I am not at least hospitalized right now is beyond me. Watch where ur walkin out there.

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ironmanstan · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:05 am Post subject:

I don't see the pic what is it Mike?
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bollie · Pony Mullet Joined: 04 Mar 2011 Posts: 76

Dam dud, someone was looking after you

ROBDOG · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:11 am Post subject:

Wow, right up on the waters edge. I always figured they would stay at least out of the tidal area due to saltwater.

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12864

Yeah one would think but I recall Dean Slowride Thomas paddling his kayak with a rattler on the bow. It seems like the snake was swimming between islands when he picked it up with his paddle.
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redfisheringman · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:32 am Post subject:

Wow close call!
I have been hearing and noticing that rattlers in the recent years have for whatever reason not been rattling when alerted like they used to. Well not as much that is.

MakoJJ · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:43 am Post subject:

Wow. your a lucky guy Shocked

RPool · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:38 am Post subject:

Here's my take, for what it's worth. Most people are told and/or believe that rattling is a warning mechanism. I, for one, don't buy it is the exclusive role of the rattle. Rattle snakes are pit vipers, the pits being located between the eyes and the nostrils. They are heat-sensitive and are used in guiding the strike to the prey. If you have ever walked up on a snake and had it rattle, it tends to freeze you, if just for a split second which, of course, is all the snake needs to get an accurate heat signal for the strike. Works great on rodents. Mike, wading may have subdued your heat signal, thus not initiating a strike.

Stinger-A · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:43 pm Post subject:

Excellent point Rpool, most rattlers I walk up on tend to slither away as fast as possible. And I've stepped on one or two without realizing until after, thank god it was cold outside and they were not in the mood striking. Ive also heard that due to rattle snake round-ups and such( which target the ones that rattle), that the ones that don't rattle are the vast survivors and therefore procreate, passing down the "no rattle" jean. Again, this is just a hunch, but it makes since to me.

SaltyCuda · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:54 pm Post subject:

They are out everywhere right about now, my team find them regularly.

Snakes Creep me out.

rabbit · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:27 pm Post subject:

Thats too close for me. Very Happy

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AcousTennis · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 13 Sep 2010 Posts: 1319

Ive walked up on a lot of rattlers Hunting/fishing on the king ranch...1 footers -8footers...none of them rattled....
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blackened302 · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:38 pm Post subject:

scary!

lucky, indeed.

CROAKERSOAKER · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 16 Jan 2012 Posts: 491

Had a four footer swim by us two weeks ago while fishing near Sunday Beach at Port O'connor Came from opposite shoreline about 500 yards away...

carolina kinger · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 4:01 am Post subject:

Close call for sure.