I have caught a bunch of Gopher Snakes in the mountains and high deserts in SO CA, they are good snake to have around as they eat mice and rats and I've been told rattlers and sidewinders as well That one looks a lot lighter in color than the CA Gopher and Bull snakes, maybe it is the camera and computer making this one look a lot lighter in color The ones I caught and saw in CA where yellow and brown, long and skinny and not afraid of people
They will bite you once or twice when you first pick them up but they become very calm and docile after that My wife hates all kinds of snakes but she had a big garden and we had animals that she fed hay, chicken feeds and pig food so the snakes would helped keep the mice down, my Son and Daughter would chase her with them when they where younger when I brought one home