I love catching water snakes! Seriously they are harmless. Arkansas has like 7 or 8 different non-venomous water snakes. They are just real mean and will bite the Hell out of you LOL. I can tell if they are Cotton Mouths or not from 15 to 20 feet away or more I've caught so many. I have no fear of snakes venomous or not. That first snake at the top looks like a Banded Water Snake because of the red bands on its side.