ok i was walking home from work when i had a great idea
i was thinking of an easier way to find a male garter so here is my idea

a male snake trap

ok all it is, its a big tote with some holed cut in the top and u put like grass clippings or whatever for a substrate and all the things that a snake needs then you take one of your female snakes and put it inside you then take it to an empty field of tall grass or leave it in the woods or wherever you find your snakes and leave it there rigged up so there is no way out out of the tote but can be easily gotten into by snakes
then you leave it there for like a day maybe even leave some fod in there

anyways onyone think this can work