Check out this snake!

nhmtns

nhmtns

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Took my students to the Brownfield Bog today for a field trip. We saw this huge northern water snake trying to swallow a big fish that it caught. It tried for about 30 minutes, but eventually released the dead fish and swam away. My 6th graders thought it was the coolest thing ever. It was one of the biggest snakes I've seen in the northeast.

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dude, why did you need to make me aware that we have water snakes in maine. now i'll be constantly having phantom snakes brushing by me whenever i swim in a lake.

 
dude, why did you need to make me aware that we have water snakes in maine. now i'll be constantly having phantom snakes brushing by me whenever i swim in a lake.
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mmmuuuwahahaha......snakes especially love stuff that dangles down in the water, so remember that when you are skinny dippin!
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photos make it huge.. is it really that big?

My bro and I caught one that measured over four feet 4 feet in rhode island, made the news.(early 80s)

water moccasin, and poisonous.

may have been a localization of warm waters in the pond it most likely "owned". (probably septic)

not often for big snakes new england.

 
photos make it huge.. is it really that big?
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that is one big snake. look at the lily pad and pickerel weed leaves for a sense of scale. based on that it looks like the snake is law-abiding too...he spit out the bass cuz it wan't big enough to be a keeper
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Maybe that's what I found when I was younger!! I found a snake with my mom under some boards in a wet area, and when it finally uncoiled.........yes uncoiled, it was somewhere around 6 feet long!!! Never seen anything like it till that picture!! And that fish is a horn pout, which is a type of cat fish! that's cool!!

 
mmmuuuwahahaha......snakes especially love stuff that dangles down in the water, so remember that when you are skinny dippin!
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Hahaha, Evan's never going swimming again.

They're not poisonous...they do bite a bit harder than a garter snake bite though.

 
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It was about 3-4 feet or so and pretty thick. I used to live in South Carolina and I saw water mocs that were really big. This wasn't as big as those, but by New England standards it was pretty large.

 
So coincidentally this afternoon I went fishing with a couple friends and saw one of these close up!!!! It was a solid 4 ft long, and very thick. We dangled a fish in front of it and it chomped right down and then quickly released. I don't care to ever see one of these while swimming!!

 
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