Seanstone
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Multi-Specie Catch and Release Angler
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Post by Seanstone on Feb 22, 2011 22:16:05 GMT -5
I saw the turtle town forum and I couldnt resist. Here is a 18 pounder I caught fishing a friends pond for channels. He was released unharmed in a local creek, he had quite a temper though. Attachments:
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Post by Catfishrollo on Feb 22, 2011 22:25:18 GMT -5
Awesome! I started this thread cause I love catching snappers! Looking for some album pictures myself. I usually jug fish them using deer meat for bait. I do relocate alot of turtles for people in the area that have farm ponds and want them removed... rollo
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Post by Smoothkip on Feb 23, 2011 6:33:14 GMT -5
Heres one from Alum Creek Lake. Not my biggest but the only one ive ever taken a pic of. Attachments:
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Post by stangcrazy85 on Feb 23, 2011 9:42:52 GMT -5
buckett of turtle ooh so tasty Attachments:
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Post by loanwizard on Feb 23, 2011 17:10:15 GMT -5
Do you use circles for snappers or some other hook?
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Seanstone
Catfish Freak
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Post by Seanstone on Feb 23, 2011 17:24:52 GMT -5
I don't really target turtles I just catch them when fishing for catfish. I beleive the one i posted earlier was on a gama circle hook though. I beleive he swallowed the bait so any hook would have worked.
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Post by Varmint_Sniper on Apr 5, 2011 16:28:37 GMT -5
I don't got a pic but 2009 my buddy Matt got 1 at seneca that took a 6in live gill and when we got him to the top of the water he had a head the size of a softball when Matt said he was gonna put him in the boat alive i said i swim back then he decided to cut the line and let him go was a big turtle and probably 30lbs
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Seanstone
Catfish Freak
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Post by Seanstone on Apr 5, 2011 16:34:53 GMT -5
;D I don't blame you, I would rather swim back as well. You can see that I held the turtle above way out of reach. It's amazing how they can take live bait, we have had a few cases of that as well last year.
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Post by Smoothkip on Apr 6, 2011 5:56:00 GMT -5
Alot of times if you catch a turtle and release him, not long after he will be back on your bait. Thats why i give them the knife if i catch one!
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Post by ducky on Apr 6, 2011 18:57:58 GMT -5
Alot of times if you catch a turtle and release him, not long after he will be back on your bait. Thats why i give them the knife if i catch one!  AMEN! |
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Post by Varmint_Sniper on Apr 7, 2011 20:00:59 GMT -5
2yrs ago Dave & I fished saltfork behind ranger station we caught 4 big leatherback turtles and all got the knife we left them on the bank till morning we thought on there backs with a stab wound all the way through them in there middle when we went back in morning they all were gone ? never know what did happen to them or where they went to was weird
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Post by katfish on Apr 8, 2011 1:31:41 GMT -5
I anchored the pontoon one night off an island and had baits shallow and deep. A shallow rod clicker went off and when I set the hook I thought I had a record flathead.
Finally got it up and it was a huge snapper 40-45 pounds.
Lifted it on the deck but it wasn't happy and as soon as I figured out we couldn't get along together on the pontoon I threw it back in and gave it the hook.
There are some nights that leatherbacks will go along our lines and eat all the baits unless we catch them. Most of the time we catch them in the foot. They put their foot on the bait and tear it apart. Sometimes they can eat a bait without making a click.
Varmint --count your blessings those turtles crawled back in.
Long ago I would go midevil on softshells with a hatchet and they would crawl up in the brush. It took a long time to figure out what the ghastly smell was when we returned in the following weeks.
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fishstick11
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Hunting for flattys with friends... Is their anything better
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Post by fishstick11 on Apr 8, 2011 16:15:21 GMT -5
i hooked a snapper in the mohican and it was a 1 and 1/2 tall top to bottom of shell
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