Originally Posted by
Dave Stewart
They are here and this time of year you better watch out for them when you are fishing shallow...this is the time of the year they are nesting and the females get very aggressive when you get near their nests....this makes the 4th one I have had crawl up my lower unit in the 20 years I have been down here...I have left fish before because they keep trying to come at you...they don't give up either...if you chase her away she will come back. By the way, I do know what a Cottonmouth looks like...got bite by one back in the 70's and they do make you sick.