Snakes also have a weakness for fish, and I have seen them approach my trout when thrown on the river bank and drag them off for their own consumption.
While fishing or shooting one must always be on the careful lookout for rattlesnakes.

In the rough canons and river banks the biggest rattlers are found, and you may jump, tumble or scramble on the back of one and run great chance of being bitten.

On the open prairie, where smaller rattlers are very plentiful, they always give you warning with their unique, unmistakable rattle.

Once, on stooping down to tear up by the roots a dangerous poison weed, in grasping the plant my hand also grasped a rattlesnake.

I dropped it quick enough to escape injury, but the cold sweat fairly broke out all over me.