What should i do to get rid of two huge water moccasins?

Question

I live on a waterfront property and have a small dock. There are two HUGE water mocassins living under there! I need to get rid of them by late summer when they reprodue, and they have around twenty kids. calling animal control wont help. I already did and they cant do anything because where i live they are protected. around now they start to lay across open branches of trees, where they will land on thier prey. Also, they stand their ground, and wont scurry off and will attack. What shpuld I do that wont put me in danger?! (they also chase my lawn guys.)

Answer 1

How do you know that they are Moccasins and not some other water snake. They have already mated and they usually separate after that. They don't drop on prey(that is mostly movie stuff), moccasins lay coiled in ambush, then strike when the prey gets close. Just stay away from them. How do you protect yourself from muggers?

Answer 2

Since when in the heck are water moccasins protected?! People practically trip over them in the South! As for an answer to your problem, try mothballs. They keep the cottonmouths out of my yard.

Answer 3

Snakes cannot tolerate gasoline. Even the fumes drive rattlesnakes from thier den.

I suggest finding a way to introduce irritating fumes to the area around your dock. The snakes will move on.  

You do not want to get gasoline into the water as it is a pollutant but you might place plastic tubs with an absorbent material in it and sprinkle gas on it every day for a few days and see if the snakes like that.

Something with ammonia might work even better. Or moth balls maybe.

Or you could shoot them.

Answer 4

keep some dogs around. snakes don't like dogs.

then of course you could invoke the 2nd Amendment and get a "snake charmer", and use it.