Blue Indigo Snakes

[MisterSanders]

Never seen or handled one personnally but I hear they are very docile as well and can be handled.

yep! go catch one and video it

[BlackHogDown]

Yeah we see the Texas Indigo, quite a few actually, at our place in Duval County. You can see them standing 4-5' in the air just looking around in waist-high grass.

One day last season, I spent about an hour dove hunting a small, shallow pond. More of a water hole no deeper than 12" in the middle and probably 20' across. As soon as we packed up to leave, an Indigo started crawling out of the water towards the brush. He had to have been at least 7-8' long. He was sitting 5' from me the whole time! Probably waiting for a dove to fall into his lap. Really cool snakes.

[deerwatcher51]

We used to have quite a few of them on a place I hunted in Uvalde County....I wish I could import some to my place in Sab Saba County.

[MisterSanders]

Wonder if we could get some in southeast texas to take care of the cottonmouths and copperheads. Wouldn't mind seeing them eat some timber rattlers too. Who wins the protected battle there?

[Mary]

Even when they steal your shot dove, they get a pass!

[HoustonR6ryda]

are they also called a "coach whip"?

[Buck Slayer]

are they also called a "coach whip"?

Different snake

[Smithwr]

That had to be what I saw several years ago out checking gas wells. It stretched completely across a caliche lease road. 9-12 feet probably

[Saltyag15]

Even when they steal your shot dove, they get a pass!

This happened to me as well! I shot a dove out of a tree that dropped into some brush around the base. When I walked over to get it, the dove was moving, and then I noticed it was in the mouth of about a 5ft. indigo. I figured he needed it more than me

[Bort]

Coolest snake in Texas. I've heard they can be aggressive when messed with. You guys holding them seem to tell a different story.

[Ætheling]

Is a Black Racer just another name for an Indigo?


Figured it out, it is not.

[catslayer]

Good snake

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[rbsears]

Growing up in west Texas, I never heard of one. Hunting in deep south Texas with my buddy about a decade ago, I saw my first one. Huge and colorful are what impressed me the most. It was my buddy's grandma's "pet". He (or she) just roamed around the house. Never had a snake or mice problem around there that I can remember.

[SabreKiller]

Cool snakes...

I was stationed in Freer and working TX16 south of town and saw what I thought was a large truck tire stretched out across the road. Nope. Big ol Indigo. He stretched from the fog line to the center stripe.

I killed javalina with my bow on the Mangus Ranch. A buddy of mine and I were cleaning it in the headlights of the jeep. I heard him say, "Hello Mr. Blacksnake." I looked to my right and about 2 feet away was a huge Indigo. Scared me to death. I had never seen one before then. I screamed like a little girl as I ran away. Larry laughed at me for 15 minutes.

[PNOAK]

I used to hunt the Mangus Ranch-what a place.