Snake Fishing

Rye83 · Jul 7, 2017

DES MOINES — An Iowa fisherman thought his fishing outing Monday would be pretty typical: Catch some fish, keep them or throw them back in the water.

But Bob Howard, 54, was so startled when a "huge" water snake latched on to his line that he almost dropped his fishing pole.

"I thought, 'Uh oh. This is bigger than I thought,' " Howard said Thursday.

Howard, of Boone, Iowa, was fishing on Rathbun Lake in Appanoose County, Iowa, in the southern part of the state. He said the snake had come up from the water a few times before its surprise attack.

"It came up and I hit it on the top of the head with my pole to get it to go away," Howard said. "He went under the water then he came up close to me.

"He just kept annoying me."

'Huge' snake steals, eats fish caught by fisherman
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I would have ran away screaming like a little girl.

ChereeKubat · Jan 30, 2018

If I was in place of Hovard then, I would like to give all my fishes to the snake and ask snake to let me go.

Dave_Hounddriver · Feb 13, 2018

From the article:

Fortunately, Howard had a camera handy and took pictures during the clash.
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Hmmm, yes, quite fortunate.

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