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Northern Watersnake. Some call them Blacksnakes, often confused with copperheads.Won't kill you. When I come across them I pick them up by the tail, toss them into a pond or tall grass, just so my dogs don't mess with them.https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Nerodia_sipedon/
Our black snakes in NC are black only, no other colors.
Thanks guys. Assume it ain't poisonous. A worry for another day.
If it is a northern banded water snake, know they are hyper territorial. They like to bite & when they do, they have an anticoagulant in their saliva that will make you bleed &bleed & bleed like it's never going to stop. But they are not venomous. that looks more like a rat snake to me, which is an asset to have around imho.Neither snake aren't poisonous, either. If you eat them one, you will not be poisoned....
The last go-round that i had with one was a few yrs ago. I was fishing at a favorite spot, where a creek feeds a nearby state park lake. Just worms and usually panfish, sitting in the shade & relaxing. Got a bream on the line. Didn't look too big. But then it fought like crazy, so,thought maybe a different fish had grabbed my hook instead. Nope. Got it near the bank and there was a water snake going after my fish. !!! Very cool.So I reeled the fish up onto the bank. First the snake let go. Then it came out of water after the fish. !!! I was sitting about 10' from the water's edge in the shade. Reeled in fish to me. snake came after it/me, head raised & wanting that fish... I unhooked the fish asap, threw it down just past my boot. Snake grabbed the fish by the mouth, wrapped all around it, then carried it back to the water and disappeared. Happened pretty quick. Kinda hard to believe but it sure did happen.
Shoulda kept them both.Two course dinner.
Would that have been Surf and Turf?
I think it's a Western Rat Snake. Thanks for the advice http://www.oksnakes.org/western-ratsnake.html
Since I'm in Okla and it's quite hot and dry now, and since I'm a block away from the creek, I'm thinking it's a Rat snake.
Good news is, they all taste good!