Cottonmouth Water Moccasin Snakes, Wall Doxey State Park, Mississippi!

[magicksinger1]

Yup, water moccasins, and their venom is deadly. I am glad you kept your distance!

[doctorfeelucky]

I remember fishing with my dad and brother at a creek of the Pearl River in the middle of mating season. Everywhere we looked, there was either a water snake or cottonmouth. They were EVERYWHERE!!

[HawgtiedXX]

a couple of those were water snakes.....hard to tell the difference....have to look at his eyes....if round = water snake if diamond shaped = death

[ronsig]

@HawgtiedXX Thanks, don't want to get close enough to look at eyes, lol.

[Sarnamia]

@HawgtiedXX Those are all Cotton Mouths. A couple of them are juveniles with a more striped pattern. Also, the pupil theory dosen't help as they widen and constrict with mood/light/ect to the point where they can be round. Besides elapids (cobras, mambas, Taipans), which are more venomous on average, have round pupils. The coral snake is the only Elapid in North America.

[ronsig]

@Sarnamia Thank you for the information!

[Sarnamia]

@ronsig You're welcome. :)

[DeutschMickey]

That's really good video of the snakes :) I came across this video after I posted some of my own footage of moccasins that I filmed when I was in Arkansas fishing one time, but I think your video is better :)

[armytaskforce11x]

dam this by far is my favorite snake due to how big it's body mass can get it has muscles on it's muscles.

[w3ath3rby]

Looks like a target-rich environment to me.

[clevenger013]

who wants to go swimming? lol



[ronsig]

@clevenger013 They used to allow swimming there!

[NewBeginningCoaching]

I wanted to repeat what the poster said.

"We don't know snakes, so we assumed they were venomous and kept our distance. "

Thumbs up on using caution.

[coupe50h]

If your on the bank and cant see one swimming up close, The venemous ones usually swim high up with their head high, opposed to the little water snakes.

[JBeazer74]

In the Southeast almost all the poisonous snakes you will come across are "pit vipers" (the Coral Snake- which is very rare- is the the only one that is not in this class and also is the most poisonous) The snake you have on this clip is a Cottonmouth or Water Moccasin...and it falls into the pit-viper class...a good way to tell if a snake is poisonous is (once again these rules do not apply to the Coral Snake) the shape of the head will be larger than the body-in a diamond/triangular form

[ronsig]

@JBeazer74 Thank you! I learned a lot since I came across these snakes.

[Snakeman418]

@ronsig dont completely listen to JBeazer74, watersnakes will triangulate their heads when threatened in order to appear like cottonmouths, watersnakes are also much more aggressive. cottonmouths are stout, with fat heads, all the time. watersnakes, once calm, have skinny heads but very triangular if scared.. pitvipers (ie cottonmouth) have elliptical cat-like pupils while watersnakes and all other southeast nonvenomous snakes have round human-like pupils, there are no exceptions in SE

[doyle178]

@JBeazer74 Since when are coral snakes rare?? They are elusive, but by no means rare within their range. I've found as many as 30 in a day at times, you just need to know where to look. Your info on pit viper identification is correct, but also flawed as several nonvenomous snakes have that same appearance. Nerodia (watersnakes) flatten their head to resemble a pit viper when threatened. I've seen dozens of nerodia (blotched, yellow bellied, etc.) misidentified by "experts" as cottonmouths.

[ronsig]

@thebeans: Thank you. 

[thebeans380]

and in to the wild goes the brave camera man.... cool vid..

[ronsig]

Thank you!!

[Gman6755]

Great photos!! Definitely water mocassins!!

[pistol555pete]

i live not too far from wall doxey an them sum deadly ass snakes... ya played ya cards smart an kept ya distance

[UFOsaucer1]

@fuckvegan exactly! you heard right! bad ass MO fo's

[UFOsaucer1]

they will come after you! get one in a bad mood....they move very fast and "can be" viscious....even jump into boats....

[doyle178]

@UFOsaucer1 Handled well over a thousand cottonmouths in my life. Never seen one "come after" anyone. They are pretty docile snakes. Most of the stories about them come from the many types of nerodia (watersnakes).

[killensk]

That's what you call a BFS.

Big Fucking Snake.

[LinzyPanaia1]

great vid

[footballfan927]

HOW DO PEOPLE GET THESE VIDEOS WITHOUT GETTING BIT????!!!!

[bradleyld88]

frog gig

[bradleyld88]

try frogging and one of these fall into your boat. adrenalin kicks in and before you realize it you have already grabbed it by its tail and slung it a country mile!

[jaycebelle11]

people have all these facts about cottonmouths and how they know its a cotton mouth......the only reason i kno its a cotton mouth is cuz its black and swims on to of the water XD

[jaycebelle11]

cotton mouths can coil up on water

[jaycebelle11]

thats all the snakes i live by lol

[Powerules]

Awesome video and pictures! 

[ronsig]

@Powerules Thank you!

[jeremiah20092009]

that snake will bite the piss out of ya!

[TripAAAHerping]

awsome footage man!!

[MultiSnakevenom]

lol We got them all over the place in the summer but I catch the green ones ;) I rather get a bite from them an keep messing with em than get bite an be like mother fucker

[creationfive]

You can tell by the shape of the snakes head - notice the wide shape - poison glands! And this kind of snake is very, very aggressive - thankful it didn't challenge you!!!

[doyle178]

@creationfive Not an aggressive snake at all in my experience. I've handled well over a thousand in my research and I can say for a fact that they are the least aggressive of all pit vipers. Tall tales and nerodia gave the cottonmouth their reputation.

[ronsig]

@doyle178 Thanks!

[doyle178]

@ronsig You are welcome! I really enjoyed your footage!!

[mwillblade]

@doyle178 One of these damn things tagged me in my backyard but I did step on it , I had the flu and a little out of it due to the nyquill I drank .

[silverbulletgirl29]

Whenever you're near water or in heavily wooded areas ASSUME the snake is venomous. 99.9% of the time the snake is going to wind up being venomous, esp. if it is black, patterned, rusted colored, brown, or steel-grey smoke colored--it's a water moccasin or cottonmouth. They come in many colors and patterns. They move really fast and have that 'frog-eyed' look/stare. They pop up out of those holes everywhere and esp near water!

[billybobrustupid]

see that snake..do he bite? Kill him dead...kill him dead.

[ferrisulf]

They really are gorgeous--how effortlessly they move through the water. That must have been amazing to see firsthand! Great videos and pics.

[ronsig]

Thanks you!

[Gman6755]

definitely a cottonmouth. The colored band under the head and how high they swim in the water mark them as the venomous variety. The shape of the head also identifies them as cottonmouths. Best to never mess with those snakes unless you really know what you are doing. Good video there.

[yourboypaulie]

Some are Moccasin some Banded Water Snake and possibly another water snake species. That's a lot of snakes!

[Jakonbacon]

@yourboypaulie They were all Cottonmouths.