Need help idendifing??

Got a call from a friend to remove a snake from under his porch. Poor thing was caught in a net, reason why it was there since Tuesday. I know it's not venomous and believe it's a water snake just don't know if it's a blotched or a diamond back. Gonna do some first aid for a couple cuts and get it rehydrated before releasing it. Anyone have any good places for a release?

Diamondback

Thanks. Thought so. Any ideas on a release location?

Looks like a yellow-belly water snake. Diamondback water snake would have a pattern.

Looks like a diamondback to me, but the pattern is faded and dry. Perhaps a picture that isn't so zoomed in???

Those injuries are minimal and don't require first aid. Release it close to where is was captured.

After a closer look at his injuries they are superficial. He is still a little dehydrated from being tangled in that net for 2 days. Gonna release him Sunday at Stanley draper lake.

Norman,

That snake is N. erythrogaster transversa (Blotched Watersnake).

Look at the belly and key it out in your field guide.
Also consider where it was captured.

Northern Diamond-backed Watersnakes usually have a patterned belly and usually have a heavier body.

Yellow-bellied Watersnakes are in far southeastern Oklahoma.

Yellow-bellied and Blotched are both subspecies of the Plain-bellied Watersnake.

Plain-belly was my original thought. It sure doesn't look Diamondbackish to me.

It is a blotched. It was hard to tell with it being so dehydrated