ok so i dont have much info to go on but its worth thr try

i live in southern illinois
we live in the country in hills and fields....we have this large pnd on part of our property....

my brother and i were taking a walk the other day and found this snake...i coould only see a little of him cause he was in the water...and when i realized that it was in fact a snake i screamed and ran {ha an incident when i was younger with snake...ever since then i dont get well with them}
now i have found snakes before and its kind of obvious to now that there would be some here where we live now...but i was expectin the size i have found before and this one was not anywhere close to it...

like i said i got to see part of it cause it was in the water and when i realized i ran....but it was rather large...about the size of a large cats head without the ears....it was in the wter and it was a blueish grey...that i saw it had no designs on it or anything...

i looked trough a few pages of water snakes and just snakes common in this area and not of the them looked or sounded right

i really want to know what kind it was and how dangerous and or venmous it is so if anyone can help that would be awesome!!!!

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