When we found them that at night when we was younger we did a nice burn out on the snake with the truck then run over a few more times to turn it into a good snake. I think cottons mouths wake up every day with that "some one pissed in my cheerios" attitude. Me and a buddy about let one have the boat one day on the smith lake. We was up in a slew and he came swimming towards the boat then tried to get in the boat we were both trying to whoop on that thing to get it to leave or go any where but in the boat. When it tried to climb up the trolling motor I though he was going to beat that trolling motor slam off the boat with the paddle.