Anyone have a pattern to match this?

[Eight Thumbs]

My best guess would be to start with a quarter of an ounce of REALLY LONG cree saddle hackles tied in at the bend of the hook.

crcaddis, I feel your pain. On the brighter side, if our doofus keeps messing around with rattlesnakes, nature will eventually take its course. It might even make the Darwin Awards! 8T

[Gigante]

I just posted to share the story. I was just kidding about the pattern. I've actually tied some flies in the last year to try and imitate a standard plastic worm...unsuccessfully.

[bugman]

no way... not me... i go fishin & somebody brangs a snake outa the tacklebox while in the boat with me,,,, *** WHOOPIN !!!

[perch]

Seems that the guy just used live bait instead of the standard , albeit smaller rubber worm. I have used massive rubber worms ( before enlightenment came ) when bass fishing , standard theory always applies.
Big bait=Big fish

[Uncle Jesse]

Bill Norman used to make a plastic worm called a Snatrix, which I understand is Latin for water snake. It was a twister tail with a molded head to look like a snake and the outer edge of the tail thicker than the inner edge. I love to fish the 5" copperhead colors with a weedless hook and no weight swim it along weeds. One of my friends said it looked so much like a snake he wanted to shoot it.

Largemouth think snakes taste like chicken.

[Flyfisher121]

I have a healthy respect for rattlesnakes, I have killed them...but they are a snake that In my opinion unless cornered would rather slink away and hunt for a meal of mice than bite you. I was inspecting on one of WSDOT projects
early in the summer and I just about stepped on one and all it wanted to do was crawl away it didn't even buzz at me...I took a picture and then we parted ways.
Flyfisher121

[Big Bad Wulff]

The ORIGINAL rattle trap!