I see from your link that you have water snakes too. Did you look at the pics?
My husband and I just bought land up in middle Tennessee, and it has a private lake on it. When we've been up there visiting, there is a huge (well, between 3 & 4 feet long) snake that lives on the bank by an old run down dock under an old piece of rubber. The first 2 times we saw it we were convinced it was a water moccasin, but we weren't prepared to dispatch it. We went back up there last weekend with a pistol loaded with snake shot (yep, he found snake shot for his .357) and decided not to discharge the weapon since we hadn't closed on the land until later in the day, so again, not prepared. After the third or fourth look, we started thinking it was a water snake, not a water moccasin. Now I'm not sure, so it gets to live until I can trap it in a trash can or something and verify that it's venomous. And yes, I dispatch all venomous snakes. I have children, pets and livestock and we don't want to be bitten walking around on our own property. But any non-poisonous snake is always welcomed.
My husband and I just bought land up in middle Tennessee, and it has a private lake on it. When we've been up there visiting, there is a huge (well, between 3 & 4 feet long) snake that lives on the bank by an old run down dock under an old piece of rubber. The first 2 times we saw it we were convinced it was a water moccasin, but we weren't prepared to dispatch it. We went back up there last weekend with a pistol loaded with snake shot (yep, he found snake shot for his .357) and decided not to discharge the weapon since we hadn't closed on the land until later in the day, so again, not prepared. After the third or fourth look, we started thinking it was a water snake, not a water moccasin. Now I'm not sure, so it gets to live until I can trap it in a trash can or something and verify that it's venomous. And yes, I dispatch all venomous snakes. I have children, pets and livestock and we don't want to be bitten walking around on our own property. But any non-poisonous snake is always welcomed.