Grass Snakes

chrissh · Jun 25, 2015

Just go back from a day's fishing on the Witham and there was a lot of Grass Snakes about must of seen at least 15 in the water and on the bank
(I'm the BIGEST COWARD WHEN IT COMES TO SNAKES) I normally only see 1 or 2 a year in the water.
would they be eating the fry - is it there mating time or just the warm weather making them active

Judas Priest · Jun 25, 2015

Chris

More than one and I'd have been heading for home sharpish, blind panic doesn't come close to it when I see a snake.

thecrow · Jun 25, 2015

chrissh said:
(I'm the BIGEST COWARD WHEN IT COMES TO SNAKES)

Oh no your not, I am. I once found one in the back of my bivvy when packing up, how long it had been there I have no idea

lambert1 · Jun 25, 2015

There do seem to be more around this year. Whether it is due to a warm March/April, I am not sure. We had 7 in one compost heap at work! I am scared of snakes too and leave them well alone.

peter crabtree · Jun 25, 2015

You know that feeling someone or something is behind you, we all it get now and then?
One night I was tucked up in my bivvy on the canal towpath when I got that feeling I wasn't alone. I quickly shipped my pole back and looked around....
Kinel, there was a massive grass snake staring me straight in the eyes...
Next minute it had me by the throat, claret everywhere!
With just seconds left on my phone battery I dialled 998...
No fracking reply aaaaaah...!

slaphead · Jun 25, 2015

Ah fracking, a hot topic around the Lanky coastline.

dorsetandchub · Jun 25, 2015

All you have to do is to get a Preston no 4 section (with pull bung holes), put yer fingers over the holes, play a tune and the snake will be charmed.

Grabbing it at the base of the head, it's time for "Now THAT'S a knife...."

Just the sight of your knife will get it slithering it away, tout suite....

robtherake · Jun 26, 2015

Have you seen how fast those critters can swim? They can't half shift, considering they don't have fins.

thecrow · Jun 26, 2015

They sink when they are dead

The bad one · Jun 26, 2015

I bleeding hate them, all of them, the slithering horrible things that they are! The only creature I think should not be in any biodivesity plan anywhere on the planet. The only good one is a dead one, as far as I'm concerned!

wes79 · Jun 26, 2015

The bad one said:
I bleeding hate them, all of them, the slithering horrible things that they are! The only creature I think should not be in any biodivesity plan anywhere on the planet. The only good one is a dead one, as far as I'm concerned!

Snakes are wise creatures although far more fearful of man than is commonly known.

Always give them an escape route and they will take it every time.

no-one in particular · Jun 26, 2015

The bad one said:
I bleeding hate them, all of them, the slithering horrible things that they are! The only creature I think should not be in any biodivesity plan anywhere on the planet. The only good one is a dead one, as far as I'm concerned!

Eel, ---anyone?

caelan · Jun 26, 2015

mg:ONLY seen a couple when fishing last one was at felmershem on the river I was up that bank as fast as I could run it just stayed by me box

binka · Jun 26, 2015

This is the snake to keep well away from in Britain, it's by far the worst...

It's an adder!

mg:

nicepix · Jun 26, 2015

Caught a snake in a mole trap last week.....

I was told that it was an Aesculapian Snake. They are the only European constrictor.

I had a grass snake swim through my peg last week. As Rob says, they don't have go at a rate of knots. I wondered if they had to go fast so as to give them some lift, like a hydrofoil?

dorsetandchub · Jun 26, 2015

I note it's not working - any reason for that??

nicepix · Jun 26, 2015

dorsetandchub said:
I note it's not working - any reason for that??

Sorry, but you've got me on that one Phil

flightliner · Jun 26, 2015

Binka's adder is a really clever one, its likely the one encountered by The Crow when it did a guzinter (÷).

tigger · Jun 27, 2015

What a bunch of pussies you lot are, grass snakes can't hurt you unless someone picks one up and slaps you round the face with one and an adder is very unlikely to do you much more harm than a nettle or wasp sting.
I'm surprised you don't like 'em Phil with you being into nature.

The bad one · Jun 27, 2015

tigger said:
What a bunch of pussies you lot are, grass snakes can't hurt you unless someone picks one up and slaps you round the face with one and an adder is very unlikely to do you much more harm than a nettle or wasp sting.
I'm surprised you don't like 'em Phil with you being into nature.

There's are limits to nature Ian and snakes are beyond it! I'll tell you a story when I see you next about snakes Ian.

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