Snakes getting Better?

[salish]

Hello, I'm just curious, are people encountering less rattlers in the Basin than a few weeks ago on the opener? I ask because I'm working my young English setter pup on wild birds and I'm a little nervous about snakes. Ive got him on a 20ft checkcord and I'm working him info coveys of quail, just so he can see/scent/hear the birds (no shotgun). Last weekend I hit the lower Crab Creek area, parts of Gloyd Seeps, Lake Lenore area, and the Whiskey Dick release site area. I did not see any snakes, and I sometimes do in the lower Crab Creek area this early in the season.

Thanks,
Cliff

[Bill W]

Unless it warms up a tad here (and stops raining) I don't think snakes will be an issue for the rest of the year.

[rtspring]

Snakes are all gone in my travels.  To cold

[head hunter]

Stay out of rock piles, I have ran into rattlers in late November when the sun is out in the rocks, when it was below freezing.

[salish]

Thanks guys, that's good to here. I appreciate the replies. head hunter, I know what you mean, I've seen them in the past late in the season at Oak Creek.

Cliff