This may have already been posted here somewhere because I forget where I first saw it now.
Ohhh, jeeezzeee! I’m covered in goosebumps! and my skin is crawling! Eeeeewwww!
Read the last several comments!(:<)! I hope someone else is not crazy enough to try to copy it! A deerhair head on a zonker strip is safer.
I can see an epedemic of stupidity coming down the pike, with every idiot in that area trying to catch and fish with live rattlers. I myself think the only good snake, is a dead one, but thats just me.
What Wt rod would you use to cast that snake?
This little fella was in my back yard earlier this year. He made a better mouser than the neighbors cats and probably would eat a young cat too. Before I get nasty email about me hating cats, I don’t and the one that shares the house with us is kind enough to let me hang around the house as long as I keep feeding her.
Note, the snake was put in a garbage can, the lid placed on it, the whole thing put in the front passenger seat then strapped in with a seatbelt and it was relocated. Something about the garbage can tipping over in the vehicle while driving did make the seat belt a very useful item for the snake. For some reason I couldn’t get my wife to go with me for the ride for the relocation effort.
I have a 10 wt outfit, but just didn’t think that I could cast this one.
regardless of the size of fish i would catch, i dont think id do that either! but heres one for you, im sick of seeing ads for this when im watching WFN all the time.
http://www.bassprofessor.com/elite/originalfishingsnake.php
That guy could have easilly left that snake alone. What a doofus.
In my case the wife didn’t want him outside of the back door and he was either relocated or worse for the snake. On the rattler, I think I would have passed on that as well.
You could tie Richard Komar’s Hard-Hackle Worm on a 1/0 or 2/0 hook with really long brown-barred feathers, and black plastic bead eyes, and that would make a fair imitation.
Plastic Lure companies have been making snake imitations for decades. This is nothing new. And when I lived in Tx. (born and raised there), lots of people fished with rattlesnakes, and water moccasins, especially in Lake Texoma, and Lake 'O The Pines. They are only dangerous if they bite you… What do you expect from people who regard ‘noodling’ for 40+ pound catfish a ‘sport’?
Whats the big deal?
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 
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.
no way… not me… i go fishin & somebody brangs a snake outa the tacklebox while in the boat with me, *** WHOOPIN !!!
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
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.
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
The ORIGINAL rattle trap!