This past Sunday, me and a buddy were floating the Buffalo in search of small jaws -- We got hung in a tree shorty after put-in so we paddled our canoe over to the tree. My partner-in-crime reached out to grab a root on the bank, but it wasn't a root. His hand got about 3 inches from the snake, which he swears was a copperhead, before it was startled and quickly slithered away. It took my buddy around 5 minutes before he could fish again.