Spiders and Snakes
Eeewwww! One more place I'm likely to NEVER go fishing!!!!!
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.
Thos are some scary critters but I'm more impressed by the quality of the pics, those are great photos Spinner1.
I believe I can fly fish
Spider webs are beautiful. Snakes on the other hand.....................
Good fishing technique trumps all.....wish I had it.
Shared a rock on the river with a very huge brown water snake last week. He was quite pretty laying there, taking in what little sun light there was. He didn't bother me, I didn't bother him. After a couple hours he just "smoothed" off into the leaves!
Spiders? Nope! Not goin' there!!
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.
I'm impressed with the quality of the pictures, especially the spider pictures.
Seeing the pictures of the snakes brings back childhood memories when I used to keep garter snakes as pets through the summer. I was thrilled when I saw my first bull snake which I promptly captured and was released when it escaped from the barrel I put it in.
I think it's a shame that we, including me, have such a prejudice against spiders when they do us such a service by eating uncountable numbers of bugs which would otherwise overwhelm us.
And also lets not forget the spiders furnish the nesting material for hummingbirds.
Great pictures.
George
Love them all...from a distance
Great pics!
Coughlin
Calling flyfishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.
Paul Schullery
I was wading through a gorge in NJ in the early fall and large (3-4'' diameter if a cirlce was drawn around them) wolf spiders were on almost all the boulders through out the river. I would go to grab a rock or climb on one and one of these guys would run away each time. Not a fun day, quite a few got kicked in to the river for the big browns to feed on
Banded water snake, 'bug', northern pine snake (or maybe some form of king snake), 'bug', banded water snake, 'bug', common garter snake, 'bug'. Just to show where my interests lie...
BTW, second worst snake bite I ever got came from a common garter snake. The worst was from a common king snake. Both got me within inches of the same spot on the same arm. Lotsa blood. The king snake lost a lot of teeth when I yanked by reflex. I was better trained at being bitten when the garter snake tagged me. I hated hurting that king snake by pulling his teeth; even though I felt ill-served by it because I had just kept somebody from stomping its head in and it went and bit me for my trouble. Or maybe it bit me because I grabbed it to play with...
Dogs are more affectionate and grateful.
Ed
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