Preparing Wild Game Turtle

That's not a snapping turtle!

 

THIS IS A SNAPPING TURTLE....It's 45 Lbs....It's was good eats...tasted like a fish...You are what u eat!!!!

As far as how to catch them...You can use a 3" fish on top of the water with a hook and some STRONG line...Or..an arrow, with a string attached...That's how I got this one....Shoot them...Find them laying eggs in a sandy spot near the water....

 

:scratch uuhhmmm... I generally don't hone methods of procurring critters on The Endangered Species List...

 

I'm assuming that ol' boy is dead, holding him that close...

snappers can extend their neck 50%-60% of their body length, so the big ones can surprise ya from quite a distance

 

Of course...One snap and off goes your fingers....I have other pics of the whole process...But didn't want to post yucky stuff

 

ra5451,
I'm only about 90 miles from you and that dosen't look like any snapper that I've ever saw, and I've caught over 1000.that looks like what we call a mudd turtle, if that had been a snapper, there would have been no problem getting the head out and I've yet to see a snapper pull her head in that far.' At this time of the yr, hundreds of female snappers are coming out of the water to lay their eggs in the mulch piles and sand traps, i use to pick up as many 15 every morning, you wouldn't even hold the snappers around here like that, their head would be our and have a piece of your hand.
Our female snappers are always about the size of that turtle, but every once in a while we get a male who is about as big as a 14 inch tire, they are real dangerous to play with, one bite and they can bust broom handles
those are eggs.just not developed yet

after taking another look at the bottom, I'm sure it's an easten box turtle or a mudd turtle.

 

Hi Lotsoflead...

I attached a picture of a snapping to my post. Not sure if you saw it or not? Here's what a snapper looks like...

Common snapping turtle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


In addition, I have attached more pics (in the next post) for your viewing pleasure...Yummy!

 

OOPPPPS...Here are the attachments.....

 

It's a pond slider, actually a red-eared pond slider

 

Ah this ole boy will bite more than your fingers....
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Jimmy

 

That thing is prehistoric!