Anyone hearing any reports of snakes? I just wondered if I could ditch the snake gaiters for winter or not yet.
Thanks

The snakes should be in their dens, but I have seen them come out and sun on warm days during the fall and winter. Usually they are very slow, but I wear snake boots on those days.

depends on your location, when temps get upwards of 80 in some locations they will come out to sun but won't be far from their den.

I nearly stepped on one in Lufkin on Thursday just before that front hit.. It was well into the 70's that day..

Only seeing them on the roads. I never wear snake boots or gators, and I survived a cotton mouth bite.

I heard of 3 different accounts of people killing rattlesnakes last week before this last cold front moved through.

We used to go after rattlers when the temps got into the 50's. They will come out and sit in the sun in late morning. They are still slow at those temps, but get quicker as they warm up. I'd say you would be pretty safe right now if the temps stay lower.

We saw two in Llano last week before the front hit. One was a rat snake we found on a road sunning and the other was a pretty big rattler that was a little close to our camp for comfort, but he got down a hole before we could get the shotgun on him.

Killed a 3 1/2' rattle bug two weekends ago in San Saba County.

My uncle killed a 6' rattler in Dimmit last week. 12 rattles. Just before the front hit.

Same here....killed a 5-1/2ft in a well house while turning on heat lamps in Kent county the day before the front......biggest one killed on the property..........I doubt there will be any in the open grass areas but I would be careful around structures on warm afternoons. Most of the smaller snakes should be denned up. There might be a few "big" ones still out.

A "slow" snake is still very fast.

...and even a dead snake can still make you hurt yourself......

The Monday before Thanksgiving temps were in the 30s and warmed to the 50s about lunch. My kids went for a hike and climbed on some rocks. My boy spotted a large rattlesnake that luckily rattled at them he told his sister to climb up but she jumped down to be by him and she got within a few feet of it. They hightailed it back to camp. She was crying. Pretty scary. Even scarier when they told mom what happened! I have never seen a rattle bug on this ranch in 6 years but seen and killed a few a couple miles away in the spring.

Old ranch of ours in Parker county had copperheads and we knew not to walk from the house to the truck, tractor, trailer, etc at night barefooted. Surprising how much damage you can do to yourself when you step on a 50' waterhose snake when you are half asleep.

Killed a rattler Thursday afternoon. Caught him slithering off the dirt road, pulled the truck up and he struck the front tire. 2 rounds from the 9mm killed him.

Guess I'll keep wearing my snake boots!

Had a rattler on the cliche two weeks ago and it was 40 out and headed to 30 that night. I think you are good, most are in the dens or dead

Agree with blackcoal bout the waterhose snakes... We've had the copperheads, rat, moccosens, garder snakes & such around the house... Twas late night, moving dresser from trailer ta house, when stepped on something, things went every were... me pard went ta check the mirror on dresser, while i checked the drawers, you guessed it full of chit...

I killed a bungie cord Friday evening.

Not this upcoming weekend...it's supposed to be warm

I was wondering the same thing myself Friday...until I went to light the gas hot water heater at the lease


So I popped a top and considered my options...Option A: probably not a good idea since it is a gas heater


Then Option B presented itself


Then reverted back to Option A to finish in the gravel driveway


The final solution

Still seeing them on the roads from time to time, so still wearing my snake boots to be prepared for unexpected meeting)

looks like you have a rodent problem, until you fix that, you will have snakes

That's an understatement colt. We got rodent problems, snake problems, bee problems, skunk problems, scorpion problems, owl in chimney problems...the list goes on