Huge copperhead in GA

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Fake? Photo of giant Georgia copperhead snake causes a stir | Miami Herald

 

[CADplans]

That is a regular snake,, and a L O N G stick to hold the snake close to the camera,,,

 

[oosik]

That is big.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

That is a regular snake,, and a L O N G stick to hold the snake close to the camera,,,

Yeah, it works to make a nice fish look bigger in a picture.

 

[MossRoad]

Yeah, it works to make a nice fish look bigger in a picture.

Yeah, I do that with 4" bluegill all the time when I'm ice fishing. Then I send it to my friends and tell them I'm hammering the slabbers. :laughing:

 

[k0ua]

The snake was supposed to be 43 inches long, and yes it is held close to the camera, and I don't think that guy is all that tall either, BUT that is still a big ole copperhead! No way near the record of 53 inches, but still somewhat bigger than any copperhead I have ever seen around here. Thank goodness.

 

[Beltzington]

Speaking of Snakes in GA -

My wife and I where out on the Savannah River yesterday and she came upon something I have never seen before a swimming rattle snake. Hard to tell by the attached pictures but it was a good sized, about 4-feet long, what I think was an eastern diamond back although it may have been a light colored timber rattler. Snake was perfectly comfortable in the water stopping several times to check us out when we got to close. This spot is about 40-miles downriver from Augusta and nothing but woods and farmland on either side and about 100-yards across.

Wish we had gotten better pictures but the current and wind were pushing the jetski around.

 

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That is a regular snake,, and a L O N G stick to hold the snake close to the camera,,,

That's an old trick and it's fairly obvious that is not the case with these images...

 

[robbyr]

Speaking of Snakes in GA -

My wife and I where out on the Savannah River yesterday and she came upon something I have never seen before a swimming rattle snake. Hard to tell by the attached pictures but it was a good sized, about 4-feet long, what I think was an eastern diamond back although it may have been a light colored timber rattler. Snake was perfectly comfortable in the water stopping several times to check us out when we got to close. This spot is about 40-miles downriver from Augusta and nothing but woods and farmland on either side and about 100-yards across.

Wish we had gotten better pictures but the current and wind were pushing the jetski around.

I took the liberty of finding out since I’m a member of a snake Id group.

 

[robbyr]

One more with some different names.