Finally got around to going fishing this morning but after a while I ran
out of worms. Then I saw a cottonmouth snake with a frog in his mouth, and
frogs are good bass bait. Knowing the snake couldn't bite me with the frog
in his mouth; I grabbed him right behind the head, took the frog and put it
in my bait bucket. Now the dilemma was how to release the snake without
getting bit.
I grabbed my bottle of Jack Daniels and poured a little whiskey in its
mouth. His eyes rolled back and he went limp. I released him into the
lake without incident and carried on my fishing with the frog.
A little later, I felt a nudge on my foot.
