Originally Posted by Carl46
Saw a guy blow a hole in a flat-bottomed wooden boat when a snake dropped out of a tree into it. Don't know what shot size he used but the pattern was really tight.


My grandfather was my fishing partner when I was a kid. He warned me many times that I better not ever jump out of the bateau when a snake dropped off a limb into it. I didn't, but I drew myself up tight against the front end more than once. Granddaddy would never move his feet or legs. He'd just pick up that long, skinny paddle and crunch that cottonmouth in the corner against the live well. Then, he'd casually pick it up with the paddle and drop it over the side into the lake, then pick up his reel, and resume fishing. I know it had to have excited him a little but I could never tell it.

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