Ok depending are were you are.
I have run across rattlers in palmettos and pines, Moccasins in the river, pygmies allover. They have swam between my legs been under foot - under mower Generally not good for them.
Now i have been known to swim- wade in the st johns even lake Jessup. Never has a gator bitten me when i step or kicked then wile wading and only once one rattler tried to strike at me. That was the only time i had snake boots on. Generally i was bare footed, wearing rubber boots or sneakers. I grew up running playing swimming in Florida mostly bear foot. Because if i dirtied my only good shoes my ass would me in a sling. So for 48 years snakes and gators have brushed me but never bitten so the threat is there
You do what makes you fell good.
Ps i learned real young never do like you see on tv.--While watching a fishing show the guy had a stringer tied to his belt loop. I peed my pants but no one could tell as i was in waist deep water fishing for bass. I lost a belt loop and two nice 1-2 lb bass as a gator took them and pushed me a side as he swam by.
the gaitors I wear are pretty good. ground rattlers in green swamp never penetrated them. However, the cottonmouths I have seen in the glades really scare me and snake boots it is there. Used to hunt in Copleland area, behind the practice landing strip, and Lykes bros. Always wore snake boots there. really big snakes I have seen there.
I wear regular knee high rubber boots when scouting and always have some kind of staff/stick with me to prod ahead of me when I get in the thick stuff. I mostly found that the snakes wanna get away from you if you come their way.
I AM FROM UP NORTH ALL SO. I HAVE FOOT PROBLEMS GETTING MY FEET IN TO SOME BOOTS. SO I WENT AND GOT A PAIR OF SNAKE GAITERS. THAT WAY I CAN WHERE THEM AS NEEDED AND WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF BOOTS. HOPE THIS HELPS YOU? WHERE UP NORTH? I AM FROM W.N.Y. STATE.
once it cold there hiding.
