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Any tips for Northern Cali snake finding?

anderson110

anderson110

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Last time I was interested in snakes (a long time ago), I lived in FL. Finding snakes there was so easy. Go find some water, and you could probably find a snake within 20 minutes of just looking around on the ground.

I live in CA now, am back into snakes, and have started taking some walks looking for snakes. I have only seen two snakes in my 13 years here. One was on a golf course, and one was crossing a road, and they were both gopher snakes. Not the most endearing species in my opinion. I'd really like to find a Cali King or at least something other than a gopher snake.

The "head to a stream, look around a bit" technique that works so well in FL does not really work here.

Any tips for me?
 
It's not the best time of year the herp, but I'd still look for "snakey" habitat and go from there. I wish you luck, I'd LOVE to hunt for west coast snakes. I guess the grass is always greener...
 
Yeah, I have yet to make a real trip of it, it's just something I've done casually while out for a walk.

I am excited to find something out here because it is likely to be different from all the things I used to find in FL, which was indigos, black racers, brown water snakes, water moccasins, hognose, and rat snakes.

The most common were those brown water snakes, I remember areas just crawling from top to bottom in those things. Which was a little creepy because they can be a little tricky to distinguish from a juvenile water moccasin.
 
I think you need a collection permit from the California fish and game to collect reptiles, just check into that before you go out!
 
AliCat37 said:
I think you need a collection permit from the California fish and game to collect reptiles, just check into that before you go out!
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Good tip. I was thinking that if I was just going to catch and release, this wouldn't be necessary, but I just did some googling and it looks like even if you just pick up a snake for a few seconds, the license is necessary.

Good to know.
 
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