Oh noes! Another threat to the smallmouth population!

[fishinwrench]

32 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Anyone ever been bit by a snapper?  Never have myself and I have never have talked to someone that was bit.  They seem to be pretty ferocious, but never bite anyone.

I am sure there have been people bit that were messing with them, tugging on a leg or trying to get a hook out of one.  But I wonder if they will go out of their way to get you.

A teenage friend got bit on the knee by a big snapper.  He picked it up by the tail and didn't know they could stick their neck out that far.  There was yellow goo oozing out from behind his knee cap, it was gross.  I saw one shoot his head out at least a foot to grab a bullfrog, so when I pick one up I hold him as far away from my body as possible.

I was always told by my grandpa that if a snapper ever got ahold of you they wouldn't let go until it thundered.  Anyone else ever hear that one ?

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11 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Anyone else ever hear that one ?

Yep.

I also heard a snake is truly dead until the sun goes down.

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Yep.

I also heard a snake is truly dead until the sun goes down.

That's a good one!

Meaning he holds onto his soul until dark?  Or he comes back to life at dark ?

[MOPanfisher]

You can paralyze a snapping turtle if yu just reach into its mouth and grab it pink  wiggly tongue.  Yeah that's it.  

[oneshot]

I almost got a Ticket for one.

oneshot

[Johnsfolly]

As a Masters student in Louisiana my friend went to catch chicken turtles with his buddy at a local farm pond. After catching a couple, his friend told him that he had caught an alligator snapping turtle. My friend asked him how he knew it was a big snapper. His buddy said that he was holding it's head. It seems that his buddy thought that he found a flat rock and he stood on top of it. Reaching down under this "rock" he caught a turtle. Turns out the rock was the snapping turtle and the "turtle" was the snapper's head. The two of them pulled the 70 lb turtle out of the pond. The turtle was donated to his school and may still be living there now.

[Mitch f]

I heard a story of some guys that killed a big snapping turtle maybe 20-30 years ago. Upon examination, they found musket ball from the civil war embedded in his shell. Wives tail or not?

[timinmo]

Totally true.  I was the one that shot it.

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14 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

That's a good one!

Meaning he holds onto his soul until dark?  Or he comes back to life at dark ?

Even if you cut a snakes head off it still moves.  Won't be truly dead until the sun goes down. 

[tho1mas]

Wives tail or not?

You will have to check with Wrench on that one or wait until it thunders.