Name:	LSUboy -	Reply
Subject:	Water Snake
Date:	6/22/2014 6:43:13 PM

Saw a long really snake swimming under and beyond my dock. It was very light colored with distinguished brown diamond markings.Swam right on top of water as our feet were dangling into the water.(Deep water but 88 degrees) It had a two pound bass following it.Any ideas what kind of snake it was?

Name:	HP HQ -	Reply
Subject:	Water Snake
Date:	6/22/2014 9:54:11 PM

Seen a video today of a rattler swimming in the lake yesterday,  odd to say the least!! Diamond markings makes me wonder if this was a rattler as well.

Name:	Wareaglewilson -	Reply
Subject:	Water Snake
Date:	6/23/2014 10:03:39 AM

Could have been a water snake. What shape was the head? If you could get close enough to see eyes, a poisonous snake has vertical slits in their eyes like a cat. Otherwise they are just round. We had a five and a half foot rat snake swim under our dock and curl up under the deck boards last year. It was darker colored though.

Name:	LSUboy -	Reply
Subject:	Water Snake
Date:	6/23/2014 10:37:09 AM

I don't think it was a rattlesnake ! Did not see a rattler. This one had to be a few years old due to the size.Swam with head fully up out of the water and also swam accross the slough about 100 yards in rough waters. Could still see it across the slough? A cotton mouth that long would be darker I  would think??  Thanks for your responses!!

Name:	cageytiger -	Reply
Subject:	Water Snake
Date:	6/23/2014 10:52:31 AM

I know someone will ask this before long, so here goes.  Thanks in advance for any replies.  What part of the lake have the snake sightings been at?

Name:	LSUboy -	Reply
Subject:	Water Snake
Date:	6/23/2014 11:38:03 AM

Mine was just south east of Camp Alamysco?? Spelling sorry. Dadeville

Name:	twinkletoes -	Reply
Subject:	Water Snake
Date:	6/23/2014 11:42:01 AM

That's exactly what I want to know. Where on the lake was this sighting? Hope it wasn't in the Sandy Creek area. I've never seen a snake around our house, but in the last two weeks I've seen two on the entrance to the boat ramp on Old Susanna Rd. Don't know what kind they were, but anything that slithers is not a friend of mine!

Name:	Ulysses E. McGill -	Reply
Subject:	Before the hysteria begins....
Date:	6/23/2014 12:04:00 PM (updated 6/23/2014 12:06:50 PM)

It sounds like a brown water snake. They are quite harmless and eat mostly fish and frogs....and other snakes. They are very common in all areas of this lake and throughout the southeast; I see them on occasion around my pier and waterfront.  People that know nothing about snakes commoly confuse them with rattle and cotton mouth snakes.

Name:	randyman -	Reply
Subject:	Snakes are everywhere on lake....
Date:	6/23/2014 12:45:04 PM

Maybe some more than others....I despise snakes but know we need them to keep the balance

Name:	LSUboy -	Reply
Subject:	Before the hysteria begins....
Date:	6/23/2014 6:38:16 PM

No offense UM but when a 6 foot snake swims between your wife's feet, there is going to be a certain degree of hysteria.We looked it up and it does appear that it was a brown water snake.They must be friendly too???I didn't kill it so no harm done.

Name:	sniperei -	Reply
Subject:	Before the hysteria begins....
Date:	6/23/2014 8:17:37 PM

I saw one sat. out in frount of our dock plenty of swimmers without any problem,tallassee slew area.