MeddelandeNick: If you will somehow come up with a proper habitat for
Cottonmouths, I'll be GLAD to give you every one of the MILLIONS we have here
in Alabama.. You just have to come here and catch them LOL... I see videos of
ppl wading, tubing, and using those "water otter" thingy's etc etc, and I know
that Cottonmouths CAN bite UNDERWATER LOL.. So, I'm staying IN my boat
LOLOL...Ppl here tell me that they have their place in the whole scheme of
things.. and I agree.. they are for TARGET PRACTICE !!!!!!!!! LOL.. They give
me the willies just thinking about them, cause they are mean.. A rattler will
(usually) warn you, a copperhead will (usually) run if given a chance..And a
coral snake has to "chew" on you to poison you..but, a cottonmouth will chase
your boat.....!!!!!!!!!!... Chuckles
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From: Niclas Runarsson
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 3:21 PM
Subject: RE: [VFB] Black Mamba
I had some Agkistrodon's myself... thirteen (incl 10 babies) Agkistrodon
contortrix laticinctus (Broadbanded Copperhead), one Agkistrodon intermedius
saxatilis (Amur Viper) and one Agkistrodon blomhoffi blomhoffi (Mamushi). Pit
vipers were the snakes I was most interested in. The only reason I didn't have
a Cottonmouth was that I couldn't provide a sufficient habitat. But I really
did want one...
Nick
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Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Steve Brettell
Skickat: den 7 januari 2007 20:51
Till: [email protected]
Ämne: Re: [VFB] Black Mamba
I had an argument with Agkistrodon piscivorus, the cottonmouth streamer
last summer.
This critter decided that he had hooked my blue gill, rather than my little
black beetle. I knocked him on the head with my rod tip, and his hooks pulled
loose, but somehow, after hooking on this wriggly streamer, the idea of
munching on the blue gill my self lost some of it's appeal. My dental
condition ain't all that sound. Ya never know.
On 1/7/07, Niclas Runarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Black Mamba, or Dendroaspis polylepis, the quickest landfly on earth.
It's long and slender, usually tied on a 1500x long streamer hook and the body
color varies from different shades of olive brown to greyish dun. The name
doesn't come from the body color but from the black inside of its mouth. It's
got two barbless injection hooks loaded with a both neurotoxic and cardiotoxic
venom which makes the fights short. Even though barbless... it's not a good fly
to use for C&R.
The Black Mamba streamer is actually the originator's fifth try until
this fly was optimal. The four before it were Dendroaspis viridis, Dendroaspis
augusticeps and two variants of Dendroaspis jamesonii... all four with green
bodies. When he was tired of them ending up in trees all the time, he put some
extra weight/length to the body and also changed its color.
I once was a fanatic in a totally different field... "herpetielogy". I
still miss my old slithering flies. ;o)
/Nick
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Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] För Joseph Fusco, Sr.
Skickat: den 6 januari 2007 21:26
Till: [email protected]
Ämne: Re: [VFB] Black Mamba
Wes -
I think the Black Mamba was a forerunner of the Chernoble Ant. Check
the following site and note the discussion at the end.
www.goulburnvlyflyfishing.com.au/Information/Fly
%20Patterns/fly%2029%20chernobyl%20ant.htm
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Joe Fusco, Sr.
Member of The Missouri Trout Fishermen's Association and The Virtual
Fly Box
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Steve
Maryland
