A friend who usually hunts in Florida was in Nashville and found a black king, a black rat, and a few other things just shining a rock cut in the city.

Just about every area of Tennessee I've been through was mountainous. I've had luck seeing salamanders and turtles in the mountains of NC, but not snakes. Try getting out into some flatter areas. Agricultural areas will have fallen tin from barns, and often abandoned buildings. These can be good areas to hunt for snakes, but are often low in diversity. In my experience, agricultural areas will have 2-5 common species of snakes. King snakes and rat snakes seem to be especially fond of agriculture.

You can try roadcruising through forests and fields on warm, humid nights. These conditions may not exist in some areas of Tennessee. Roadcruising in the late afternoon into the early part of the night will usually produce a few snakes just about anywhere if the conditions are right.

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