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DanR217 said:
From what my landlord was saying, it looks and tastes a lot like fish. He said it's white and flaky. Russ?

There I go, I should start a restaurant that specializes in snake.
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I ate rattlesnake in Sedona, AZ about 5 years or so ago. Along, with couple other crazy items on the appetizer menu and washed it down with an incredible prickly pear margarita!

I don't remember it tasting like fish, more like chicken, but they were small little pieces fried crispy and came with like a remoulade sauce. So, it covered up the straight flavor. Good eating.:)
 
DanR217 said:
From what my landlord was saying, it looks and tastes a lot like fish. He said it's white and flaky. Russ?

There I go, I should start a restaurant that specializes in snake.
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I've deep fried Rattlesnake a few times Dan. IMO its taste kinda like oily chicken, but the consistensy is probably closer to fish.
Its OK. It doesn't taste good enough for me to hunt one down, but if its in my yard I'll kill it and then cook it so it doesn't go to waste. I wouldn't kill any snake in my yard unless a Copperhead or Rattlesnake, and won't kill those if they're not in my yard.
 
I thought I was supposed to be the bleeding heart? :rolleyes:
 
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These are beautiful animals. I got to watch this NPR last year for a half hour or so. It was with a smaller dead one on a gravel forest road when I saw it. I'm still not sure if it was trying to eat it or love was in the air. It mostly was trying to lift the dead ones head with it's head. It was doing these strange rattling sequences, then would do a tight circle around it and then start the rattle again. I was 5 or so ft. from it and it never acknowledged I was there. It never even looked aggressive. I didn't realize how big it was until I chased it off the road with rocks to get it out the path of Logger trucks and it stretched out. It was close to 5 ft. Sorry for the dark cellphone pics.




 
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As long as you have a current Cali fishing license, you are not breaking any law. And, just for accurate information, it is a myth about young snakes not having control of their musculature relating to their venom injection. Newborn and juvenile venomous snakes actually inject less venom that do adults. This is fairly well documented with people that milk them to produce antivenin. Take good care of him or her and you could end up with a 5 or 6 inch rattle in no time. The longest rattle I have seen on a captive snake was 8 inches.
We get lots of them on the property here.
My oldest with one of the more recent captures


Surf and turf West coast style, that is an abalone in the center
 
Down here in the south we get some big A$$ diamond backs, I've almost been bitten several times, and I know quite a few people that have been bitten, IMO the only good rattler is a dead rattler. I'm not a snake hater by any means,I've owned a few myself , just non venomous of course.
 
I let the little guy go. I thought he was blind in his left eye, but he tracked me thoroughly with it yesterday. Maybe I'll see him again when he's nice and fat on rodents!
 
Not something I would have done but good on you. Hopefully if you meet him again he will remember that you let him go.
 
i have a couple of snakes, but i think that's a little out of my league. nothing wrong with boas and pythons but once they can kill you just with a bite that's too much. be careful with that thing. i'd hate to see you on some animal planet show about pets gone wrong.
 
762 shooter said:
As long as you have a current Cali fishing license, you are not breaking any law. And, just for accurate information, it is a myth about young snakes not having control of their musculature relating to their venom injection. Newborn and juvenile venomous snakes actually inject less venom that do adults. This is fairly well documented with people that milk them to produce antivenin. Take good care of him or her and you could end up with a 5 or 6 inch rattle in no time. The longest rattle I have seen on a captive snake was 8 inches.
We get lots of them on the property here.
My oldest with one of the more recent captures



Surf and turf West coast style, that is an abalone in the center
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OMG that looks disgusting, no offense but EEEEK!
 
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