Worked a couple hours, then took the rest of the day off to go fishing. Really nice day.
Hit the creek for drum/grass carp. Did not catch any drum. A grass carp shook free as I was guiding it towards the net. Had a gar eat the fly, but somehow missed on the hookset.
I did catch a small Largemouth Bass and a Channel Catfish.
Nearly stepped on this little fella. I think its a Great Plains Ratsnake. Pretty!
The creek didn’t produce like I’d hoped, so I decided to fish elsewhere. Caught 6 Goldfish and 15 Koi.
Goldfish:
The picture of that first Koi, the light colored one, is kind of strange looking. As Indiana Jones said in Raiders of the Lost Arc, “Snakes, I hate snakes. Very dangerous …”.
Nice report Dave !
Nice “nope rope” there too.
You can keep em in Mo
Hoping to get to Montauk or some stream down that way this next month
Tight lines!
J
Northern Watersnake is a good guess. We definitely have quite a few of them around. I think this one is a Great Plains Ratsnake. Non poisonous, very “chill”, non-aggressive species. In fact, although I nearly stepped on it, it never moved.
