My favorite snake story was when I was fishing Santee Cooper river in SC. The water snakes hung back in the swampy areas in the spanish moss. I had a buddy that made belt buckles from them. We had a 50 qt cooler slam packed with them. The ones on bottom were slow moving due too a little ice we put in it. The ones on top were feisty as ever. Well we get pulled over by a game warden that had to of been Barney Fifes brother. He was writing us a ticket for a defective pfd. He had his boot from his boot on top of the cooler so he could hold the boats together. Lo and behold he kicks it open so he could check what fish we had caught. Those snakes were piling over onto his boat fast as lightning. He went nuts and me and my fishing buddy could not quit laughing.