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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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