flyfisher wrote:Snakes are always fun eh sailfish. I'm glad our Tassie snakes are generally a bit more tolerant than that.
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Yep.
Fly fishing has got to be about the worst activity for snakes. All that stealthy creeping around, trying to not alert the fish with the vibrations of your footfalls around the waters edge where the growth is lush and small prey plentiful. Snake encounters are inevitable but that is the closest call I have had in 20 years of fly fishing. I don’t mind seeing them, it’s not seeing them that disturbs me. Like how this particular snake was in plain sight but did not register on my mind.
Regards,
Ken