Im chiming in a little late but the only snakes that get to me are black water snakes we have in ponds here in Ohio. Not moccasins (sp?), which for some reason people believeexist up here, but the regular black ones that get around 3 feet long. Some places i have fished at ive had to run from the little buggers cuz they chase you around. And swimming with them around is no fun either. A kid in my enviremental science class last year tried to catch one and he got bit in the wrist and bled like no other until he got to the nurses office. He was kinda an idiot though