Every few years or so you hear or read about a largemouth bass fisherman who in the process of lipping a bass gets bitten on the hand or thumb by a water moccasin that is trapped in the gullet of the bass. The snake, still alive, being the last meal the bass ate before eating the said anglers lure, fly or bait. I never think to check for a snake when I am lipping a bass. I do know bass are fond of eating snakes and there are plenty of lures and flies on the market that attest to a bass’s penchant for snakes. Once after fishing in Flamingo in the Everglades National Park and while I was at the cleaning station at the ramp another angler who was cleaning fish found a small live rattle snake in the belly of a redfish he had caught in backwaters of Hells Bay.