RE: anyone here eat turtles?
 

ive never actually weighed a turtle so i may be wrong on the 5# thing but most of them ive seen are a little smaller then a dinner plate but ill definatly try and catch me a few here soon thanks for the info, sean

RE: anyone here eat turtles?
 

I tried some fried snapping turtle about 10 years ago. The flavor wasn't bad, it was just cheeeeewy. Then again, anything has good flavor if it's fried. [&:] I don't plan on eating anymore turtles in the near or distant future.

RE: anyone here eat turtles?
 

It is good, we have been seeing a lot of them this spring, when working ground, they are enroute to finding a place to lay their eggss, I used to catch them going across the field and pu t them in a bag and give a buddy of mine and help him clean them, we used to put them in a breel for a bout a week to clean them out...

RE: anyone here eat turtles?
 

that is put them in a barrel, having a problem with my fingers I guess.

RE: anyone here eat turtles?
 

can i boil the meat after i clean them? o dont really have anything handy to boil a whole turtle but if i can do it after there cleaned i can just do that in the house

RE: anyone here eat turtles?
 

mow you guys have done it im going to have to go get me some turtles and get cooking yummy

RE: anyone here eat turtles?
 

Rusty you can clean them and then pressure cook the meat. It's just easier to me if you can boil them while in the shell. Aftewards I still pressure cook them.

RE: anyone here eat turtles?
 

I had an odd thing happen today. I caught a turtle on a small Repala Floating Minnow. It definitely was trying to eat it - it wasn't snagged. I caught a crappie on the cast before and casted to the same spot. A few turns of the reel later I thought I had snagged on a log or something. When the log gave way I was reeling in a good sized turtle. It wouldn't let go or else it was hooked. Either way, the lure was firmly in the turtle's mouth. When I finally got it to shore it just spit it out and backed back into the water. Anyone ever experience anything like that before?

RE: anyone here eat turtles?
 

I've had them hit top water, crankbaits, jerkbaits, and worms on carolina rigs. I've also seen them hit bobbers.

RE: anyone here eat turtles?
 

we catch them on live bait all the time we use small bream or shinners about 3' under a bobber they seem to hit them more when the fish is pretty much at its end but we also catch a fair amount on brand new live bait and we catch them with live worms on occasion but i cant say as ive ever caught one on a lure