Snapping Turtles

Anticipation's killin me. Sometimes I check them after one night; others, two. I seem to catch more on a two day set but I never really know if I caught them on the first night, or second.

This place is only a couple of miles from where I live and I can drive my truck on the levee, right up to the net so I may at least go park and sneak up to see what's going on.

I love to do that. You can see if the net's moving, etc. Sometimes there are many non targeted species and you see turtles too. Usually either one or the other but sometimes both. Funny thing, I may have 20+ non targets and no snappers or only one snapper and no non targets.

 

Had 4 big softshell turtles and 21 non-target species. They've been dispatched. I'll try to post the picture but the forum doesn't let me post pics from my phone for some reason.

 

Thanks tirk. When I tried is said file too large. I cropped it and then it said problem with server.

 

Cooked some last night for some friends. Just posting to have a record of it since I've used this thread as a log, sorta.

 

@jvalhenson has a lot bigger log than you

 

He catches a lot more than me, too.

 

those stretch marks on your mouth prove that.

 

How many different ways do you prepare turtle? I don't ever remember eating turtle as a kid.

 

I'm disappointed. I expected more of you than grade school humor.