Heck, I'll talk about HUNTING snapping turtles! It's getting near that time of year again too! We DO eat them, if we can get big enough turtles to keep, and only keep two or three... enough for one meal. We go around about this time of year with two things: A rake handle with a nail and a corn knife (or machete). We poke underneath crick banks (there IS a difference between cricks and creeks, by the way) until we hear or feel the nail scratch a turtle shell. Then, if the turtle is large enough (around 25 pounds), we get him to bite the end of the handle. We then pull him up, lop off his head with the corn knife, STAY AWAY FROM THE HEAD, and keep going down the crick. But, in the last few years, we haven't kept any, we just did a "catch and release" kind of thing, we get them on land and let them go. The big ones are getting harder and harder to find and it takes years before the little ones get big enough to take. So, we'll end up doing the catch and release thing until we start noticing a lot more large ones... if we see that 8 of 10 turtles are in teh 25 pound range, we'll start keeping one or two again.