Now I've seen everything - A swimming rattlesnake!!!?

All snakes can swim and all snakes can climb. People acting like that really tick me off... there was no reason they had to torment that snake like that, you can tell it's worn out and tired... they're standing there whacking at it with a rod when all they had to do was crank up that motor and move along to another spot. People like that are asses. (Then again, I ~have~ met my share of professional bass fishermen...)