A Gippsland fisherman has faced off with a tiger snake in his tinny, while it was anchored more than 10 kilometres from the shore in the middle of Lake Wellington. With no way to retrieve the anchor, the man occupied the boat with the metre-long snake until it let its...
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A Gippsland fisherman has faced off with a tiger snake in his tinny, while it was anchored more than 10 kilometres from the shore in the middle of Lake Wellington.
With no way to retrieve the anchor, the man occupied the boat with the metre-long snake until it let its guard down, at which point he covered it with his jumper.
“That gave it a fright,” the man explained, “enough to get it hiding down the side of the boat, so I was able to get to the anchor and pull it up.”
The two then set off on the half-hour trip back to shore, where a snake-catcher was waiting.
The reptile was later released in the nearby Heart Morass wetland.
Given the man was well into his eighties, he was lucky the fright didn’t send him into cardiac arrest.
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