They are terrible down here in SW Pennsylvania. You cant just pick out one type either. Yesterday I went to a lake near my house to do some bass fishing, and in the two hours I was there, I probablly saw 30 water snakes. The Garter Snakes are crazy this year also. I was mowing my back yard and actually hit two of them and avoided hitting probablly ten times that many. I have also seen a good number of black snakes hanging around our old horse shed. Hopefully they are the taking care of all the rodents and cooperheads.

Thankfully, I havn' t seen any cooperheads yet. They are around but I have managed to avoid them so far. With the overall increase of snakes, it kinda riases your guard while you are out in the woods and out fishing.