Beautiful fish and mount bird! What did it weigh?
Tube fishing is fun. I did learn a lesson a couple of years ago when fishing a pond. A water snake came across the pond, and was heading in my direction. When he got close I swatted it with my rod tip, and he dissapeared.
About 2 seconds later, I had a 4' scared water snake out of the water and in the tube with me!

I got him by the head, and held him until I could paddle to shore where he was released. Then I got out of the water and cleaned out my undies :-[ :-[
Later when talking to some guys that fish in tube tournaments they told me to never swat one as that makes them panic and want to get out of the water. They said to just use your rod tip and gently move the snake away from you without scaring it. I went one step further and bought a cheap Davis derringer in .38 S&W to shoot them with birdshot.
