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I saw about 20 water snakes that day. Funny thing is that I was able to only catch one of them. And Im a pretty quick person, these snakes were just faster. Maybe cause they just drop in the water and are gone. Cant wait till black racer season in Sept/oct Anyway this place was loaded with northern water snakes.

This was the largest Northern water snake I seen that day. About 4ft I would say. Oh, and this was in MA.

Are you serious? I go up to mass every summer to visit family and all I can ever find are red back sallies, bull, leopard, and cricket frogs a painted turtle every once in a while and Ive only seen a few garter snakes one was a dor and the other 2 were up in new hampshire... you actually have to try to find snakes rather than just driving along any backroad in suitable habitat farther south are snakes even that common up there? or is it just me? maybe im just not spending enough time out but ive never seen a northern before so maybe ill just start trying harder and especially from MA I would consider that a big accomplishment even though ive heard so many stories from family about seeing a ton of monster snakes when they were younger