Your Gartering "Technique"

[Stefan-A]

lol
I always though you needed a snake hook for that. Those breeders tend to bite you know!

A left hook does the job just as well.

[Loren]

My method- see snake, grab snake. Any way I can.

Without hurting the snake of coarse. If the snake bites you thats good, because that means you have a better chance of getting a hold of him.

[Zephyr]

I've yet to see any one go all "Steve Irwin" on a snake yet. For some odd reason, I can see James doing that to his first garter...

[anji1971]

From the sound of some of Loren's stories about snake catching, I'd say he's probably done the Steve Irwin thing!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

By steve irwin.. do you mean diving into a lake at a moment's notice to grab one?

If so.... I've done that twice!

I usually am very aggressive when it coms to caching snakes. Luckily I have great eyesight and I'm able to identify any snake even in motion instantly... then before I even know what is happening I am on the ground with my hand on any part of the snake I can be on... I have cut/scratched myself up pretty good for snakes. I chipped my kneecap in the effort to catch the hypo female!

[adamanteus]

I've yet to see any one go all "Steve Irwin" on a snake yet. For some odd reason, I can see James doing that to his first garter...

Maybe....
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/gart...t=grass+snakes

[Stefan-A]

Dammit, James. You beat me to it.

[reptileparadise]

I move quickly and quietly into the breeders house, cleverly lure him with cash, then at the appropriate moment I whip out the correct money, thrust it towards the breeder and seize the snake of my choice.

Thats an real interesting technique!
But whats the approprate moment...If you move to soon, the breeder will flee! If you wait to long, the breeder will have lost interest and disappeard into the bushes...

[Loren]

By steve irwin.. do you mean diving into a lake at a moment's notice to grab one?

Yeah, I've done that sort of thing a few times.

Scrapes, cuts, bruises- no big deal. Just keep me away from poison oak.
I'll herp around it, but not in it.

[ssssnakeluvr]

I've been doing the Steve Irwin style since I was a kid!!!! always diving after critters. I was out with my brother and caught a leopard frog jumping across a streem. I dove over the small stream and caught him in mid-air. I hit the ground and rolled. I was a lot younger then..not so sure it would end up as nice and neat as that time.....