cucumbers?

[tokaysrnice]

So we heard people in mead county telling us that copperheads smell like cucumbers,I get home and am talking to a co-worker from kentucky and he tells me the same thing? I personaly hooked several coppers as well as everyone else on our trip and I never smelled cucumbers.
Has anyone else heard this or experienced it themselves?
Nate

[John_White]

I've heard this quite a bit, but haven't found it to be true.

[tokaysrnice]

I heard it might have something to do with finding them in wet tobacco bundles? I have no experience with tobacco besides in my smokes so maybee?

[richardduckworth]

like about everything else you hear about animals from normal people, it's a bad myth at best. i've dealt with plenty of coppers and you either smell nothing or they musk you and you smell HORRIBLE. it ain't a cucumber smell either

i've always heard this and i actually won money from a guy at work. i found a copperhead and told him that if he could find it by following the scent of cucumbers, i'd give him $100, and if not, he's owe me $100, since he swore up and down that copperheads always smelled like that.

he lost

[ja-rod4545]

People have always told me that only some people can smell them, they smell kinda like cucumbers to me, but im native american!