Copperhead or not, it's HIS backyard, not ours, and it's up to US to look out for him, not the other way around. It's another good reason to carry a good wading staff. My trusty old Orvis ash wading staff has killed one cottonmouth, and flipped a number of poisonous and non-poisonous snakes harmlessly out of my path.  

Bill Anderson, SW Missouri

You know you're getting older the day you realize your get up and go got up and went.....    
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