Thanks for your excellent tips. I caught two snappers yesterday. One was a giant, over 20 lbs. Used chicken as bait, 50 lbs test line, size 5 hook. I want to stock my pond with new fingerlings but needed to get rid of the snappers first!
Great video! Worked like a charm! Only took 3 hours to catch the 15lbs snapping turtle. We put the meat on the hook and came back 3 hours later and he was on the second line we checked! Highly recommend
Thank you for sharing Kenneth there's nothing better than fryed or barbeque cudders I got a 12 lbs one last night its soaking in salt water today.........Supper tomorrow is going to be fryed turtle an gravy with home made biscuits an mashed tatters .....god bless
Thanks for all the great advice kyafield. Some minor notes if anyone else decides to do this I used tobacco sticks with a hole drilled through them as stakes. I used cut up stew beef chunks as bait. I used yellow 15lb yellow masonry string for line and I used 3/0 o'shaughnessy hooks instead of 5/0. Also went with stainless hooks but looking back I could have saved money by just getting the non stainless o'shaughnessy hooks instead. Me and my son have caught 7 total in 2 outings. If your turtle population is large like ours is it only took them 15 mins to start taking the bait before we could pull them in and finish them with a 22. Also on our second outing we decided to wait the recommended 2 hours and every hook we put in the water was stripped of its bait except one. I noticed on our first outing though a turtle will hold that bait in its mouth even if the hook hasn’t gotten caught in its mouth or stomach making it easy for someone to reel the turtle into the bank and another person to shoot them in the head. Just my thoughts hope someone gets something from this. Good luck.
Hmmm. My big bass population, has taken a hit, so I'm using milk jugs, but I suppose the stake would work well, if you don't have a boat to use. I've used tough meat before, with good luck. Our little market, quit cutting meat, so my tough meat supply, dried up. I tried using some scraps, from steak dinner. But, they aren't tough enough to stay on the hook. I'm running about 25%, success. Trying chicken gizzards, they're pretty tough. Thanks for the video. I may give the shore line a whirl. But, that pond you're at, has pretty clean banks. Mine isn't as well-groomed.
All you people questioning why you would do this - they are killing this guy's geese, just like they've massacred a bunch of my ducks. My ducks are not ducklings or adolescents getting eaten by bullfrogs as some are saying by the way, they are full grown ducks that I have witnessed getting pulled under. When they start killing the animals you've taken time and effort to raise with no signs of stopping, you have to do something about it. Make sense?
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You mean harvest but not farm. Unless you truly have them protected and enclosed in some way and you are feeding them or something like that. Otherwise you’re just harvesting wild animals in wild habitat, possibly illegally mind you. Not that I have anything against anyone eating the occasional common snapper. As long as they don’t eat any alligator snappers, which are fast approaching becoming critically endangered with the tiny gene pool further shrinking.
arthur myself snapping turtles csn cause some severe damage, painted turtles are fun to watch, feed and hand catch then realease. Hope you know what kind you are messing with.
Snapping turtles are amazing creatures and such a great sign of either a healthy pond or an out of balance pond with way too many bullfrogs, in case it will continually attract and sustain large snappers. Mind you bullfrogs eat 90% of the ducklings and goslings and other baby waterfowl in ponds and small lakes on farms and natural habitats across birth America everywhere bullfrogs thrive. Which includes almost the entire southeast (obviously not at the top of Mt. Mitchell etc, hehe..) and most of the Midwest, of course, among other places. Just so happens, that bullfrogs are snapping turtles main and favorite food. They love them and eat them and when they aren’t eating them, they are usually eating either dead or severely sick/injured/weak fish, and generally keeping everything free of carrion and sick. They can be considered a keystone species of a healthy and balanced pond ecosystem where waterfowl will thrive, the water will stay clean and carrion and disease free, and that the pond will support the maximum number of healthy bass and other game fish. The only animal considered a more vital keystone species to these ecosystems would be the North American beaver, who actually creates the very ecosystems themselves often in many locations, including bringing lush oases in otherwise arid desert locations, from a trickle of water they somehow turn them into flowing streams and big marshes and eventually even trees and swamp. But besides beaver, it’s really hard to beat snappers. They make everything thrive. Except bullfrogs lol.
@@zacharyriley4122 I like having turtles in my pond we always have a couple in it. However by late summer it will be overwhelmed with them and I have to remove some.... reading your comment I now know it must be the frogs lol. On a late summer evening you can stand on the dock and just see hundreds of frogs everywhere on top of the water and vegetation. Turtle heaven I presume lol. You can stand on the dock with a bb gun and have a bucket full of frogs in 15 mins
I'm getting so sick of catching turtles, I want fish not turtles. The lake i live on has way too many turtles. Will the game warden move any turtles to a different lake if you contact them about there being way too many turtles in the lake you live on? At this point there are still some good bass and catfish in the lake but I swear the turtle are taking over
32 pounds is a big one? Holy shit we literally caught a 65 pound snapping turtle a couple years ago. I thought those were average size. We moved out to our property in 1999, cow pasture land. I had no idea that was a big turtle
Funny thing is, they almost never eat ducks. Setting up night vision motion activated cameras will reveal that in fact the predator on most farms who takes out the most ducklings and other juvenile waterfowl, is bullfrogs. Bullfrogs are voracious predators and can swallow ducklings (and even other bullfrogs) weighing as much as themselves! What people forget about bullfrogs, is that they are basically giant mouths attacked to a body with a huge stomach and are ravenous predators. A pack of bullfrogs hunting at night can decimate a pond. Funny thing is, the main prey that that snapping turtles eat and prefer are bullfrogs! If they are hanging out and doing well you prob have a bullfrog problem already. Killing the snappers will only make it worse. That being said, I love snapper meat. Mmm, like little like filets in each side of the head. Gotta know how to do it though. How to get them ready before you slaughter/butcher them. Gotta get rid of the swamp flavor. You do that by keeping them in tubs nice and cool in the shade and keep the fresh water constantly changed and clean and fresh. Very important. Anyway, I like turtle and I like eating bullfrog too, so I say eat the turtles, and we’ll all have a lot more bullfrogs to gig and eat! Disclaimer: of course, if we fail to keep up and kill all those bullfrogs now, basically no waterfowl babies roaming free around the ponds are gonna survive, just so we all understand. They’re gonna be bullfrog dinner for sure. Just like that. Down the hatch. *Gulp.*
I prefer too just trudge into my pond and haul out snappers with my bare hands! Works way more successfully if you know what you're doing. I love them though and snappers are really misunderstood so I just take pictures and then release them.
This is really sad for me but it’s also good for the environment, The reason its sad for me is because I have a pet snapping turtle and I’m scared it might grow up to be like this
I have 2 Brittany Spaniels that love the water.I also have snapping turtles in the pond and both dogs have got bit on the leg by a snapper.Cost close to $400.00 to get a dog patched at Vet up from a turtle bite!! I hate them and am going to do all I can to get rid of them.Anyone want a turtle to eat?😂
love the ending "were blessed"
Thanks for your excellent tips. I caught two snappers yesterday. One was a giant, over 20 lbs. Used chicken as bait, 50 lbs test line, size 5 hook. I want to stock my pond with new fingerlings but needed to get rid of the snappers first!
Great video! Worked like a charm! Only took 3 hours to catch the 15lbs snapping turtle. We put the meat on the hook and came back 3 hours later and he was on the second line we checked! Highly recommend
Thank you for sharing Kenneth there's nothing better than fryed or barbeque cudders I got a 12 lbs one last night its soaking in salt water today.........Supper tomorrow is going to be fryed turtle an gravy with home made biscuits an mashed tatters .....god bless
I noticed big holes dug in the side of our pond. Thought beavers at first but then I saw a couple HUGE turtles. Could they be the culprits?
No
Thanks for all the great advice kyafield. Some minor notes if anyone else decides to do this I used tobacco sticks with a hole drilled through them as stakes. I used cut up stew beef chunks as bait. I used yellow 15lb yellow masonry string for line and I used 3/0 o'shaughnessy hooks instead of 5/0. Also went with stainless hooks but looking back I could have saved money by just getting the non stainless o'shaughnessy hooks instead. Me and my son have caught 7 total in 2 outings. If your turtle population is large like ours is it only took them 15 mins to start taking the bait before we could pull them in and finish them with a 22. Also on our second outing we decided to wait the recommended 2 hours and every hook we put in the water was stripped of its bait except one. I noticed on our first outing though a turtle will hold that bait in its mouth even if the hook hasn’t gotten caught in its mouth or stomach making it easy for someone to reel the turtle into the bank and another person to shoot them in the head. Just my thoughts hope someone gets something from this. Good luck.
What's the name of that song that kicks off at about 4:15? I love it!
It's called REDNECK NOISE
Hmmm. My big bass population, has taken a hit, so I'm using milk jugs, but I suppose the stake would work well, if you don't have a boat to use.
I've used tough meat before, with good luck. Our little market, quit cutting meat, so my tough meat supply, dried up. I tried using some scraps, from steak dinner. But, they aren't tough enough to stay on the hook. I'm running about 25%, success. Trying chicken gizzards, they're pretty tough.
Thanks for the video. I may give the shore line a whirl. But, that pond you're at, has pretty clean banks. Mine isn't as well-groomed.
I use a whole strip of raw bacon
All you people questioning why you would do this - they are killing this guy's geese, just like they've massacred a bunch of my ducks. My ducks are not ducklings or adolescents getting eaten by bullfrogs as some are saying by the way, they are full grown ducks that I have witnessed getting pulled under. When they start killing the animals you've taken time and effort to raise with no signs of stopping, you have to do something about it. Make sense?
No. Just because you’ve raised ducks doesn’t mean they have more value than turtles.
@@wendythomas9361 Hush, Wendy. The grown ups are talking.
@@wendythomas9361 if you love turtles that much why don’t you marry them
Hey Sonny, you looking well, looks like you know what you doing😂
I know you're the Best of the Best when it comes to outdoors and hunting!!!! Sonny the Master of Hunting 🐻🐟🐢
Much Love Bevy Bev😘
Thanks for sharing this, have a problem of my own at my place.
Thanks for the good info! Have them really bad here !! Have lost lots of ducks ,baby ducks and geese too !! Thanks again
Awesome! We love catching turtles!
Great video, back home we used to milk jug turtles in orchard ponds !!!!!!!!
I wanted to farm snapping turtles off my own land, but wasn't sure how to catch them in a 12 ft deep river... this would work great
You mean harvest but not farm. Unless you truly have them protected and enclosed in some way and you are feeding them or something like that. Otherwise you’re just harvesting wild animals in wild habitat, possibly illegally mind you. Not that I have anything against anyone eating the occasional common snapper. As long as they don’t eat any alligator snappers, which are fast approaching becoming critically endangered with the tiny gene pool further shrinking.
Those things will wreck a farm pond in short order.
KRN762 How
Because they drag rabbits into the water and rape them..
I work in fisheries, and no they won't
As a turtle I am offended, smh
What do you charge the land owner to catch the turtles for them? Im planning on doing this kind of thing. Just curious how and what you charge
to each his or her own we love feeding our pond turtles. They are a calm in a storm.
arthur myself snapping turtles csn cause some severe damage, painted turtles are fun to watch, feed and hand catch then realease. Hope you know what kind you are messing with.
Snapping turtles are amazing creatures and such a great sign of either a healthy pond or an out of balance pond with way too many bullfrogs, in case it will continually attract and sustain large snappers. Mind you bullfrogs eat 90% of the ducklings and goslings and other baby waterfowl in ponds and small lakes on farms and natural habitats across birth America everywhere bullfrogs thrive. Which includes almost the entire southeast (obviously not at the top of Mt. Mitchell etc, hehe..) and most of the Midwest, of course, among other places. Just so happens, that bullfrogs are snapping turtles main and favorite food. They love them and eat them and when they aren’t eating them, they are usually eating either dead or severely sick/injured/weak fish, and generally keeping everything free of carrion and sick. They can be considered a keystone species of a healthy and balanced pond ecosystem where waterfowl will thrive, the water will stay clean and carrion and disease free, and that the pond will support the maximum number of healthy bass and other game fish. The only animal considered a more vital keystone species to these ecosystems would be the North American beaver, who actually creates the very ecosystems themselves often in many locations, including bringing lush oases in otherwise arid desert locations, from a trickle of water they somehow turn them into flowing streams and big marshes and eventually even trees and swamp. But besides beaver, it’s really hard to beat snappers. They make everything thrive. Except bullfrogs lol.
I love out turtles
@@zacharyriley4122 I like having turtles in my pond we always have a couple in it. However by late summer it will be overwhelmed with them and I have to remove some.... reading your comment I now know it must be the frogs lol. On a late summer evening you can stand on the dock and just see hundreds of frogs everywhere on top of the water and vegetation. Turtle heaven I presume lol. You can stand on the dock with a bb gun and have a bucket full of frogs in 15 mins
@@zacharyriley4122 Where is your proof that bullfrogs eat 90% of goslings and ducklings?
I use chicken leg meat for bait. It's cheap and it works.
thanks Kenneth Dix Jr. !!!!!!!
This is a vary good video thanks you for posting it !
What kind of line are you using
I thinned out the turtles in my pond - helped water clarity and quality quite a bit
I'm getting so sick of catching turtles, I want fish not turtles. The lake i live on has way too many turtles. Will the game warden move any turtles to a different lake if you contact them about there being way too many turtles in the lake you live on? At this point there are still some good bass and catfish in the lake but I swear the turtle are taking over
Thats pretty cool!
32 pounds is a big one? Holy shit we literally caught a 65 pound snapping turtle a couple years ago. I thought those were average size. We moved out to our property in 1999, cow pasture land. I had no idea that was a big turtle
hi... can you make a video of making a trap to catch a tortoise
traps would be more humane. Turtles are awesome pets as well.
myself not snapping turtle
Funny thing is, they almost never eat ducks. Setting up night vision motion activated cameras will reveal that in fact the predator on most farms who takes out the most ducklings and other juvenile waterfowl, is bullfrogs. Bullfrogs are voracious predators and can swallow ducklings (and even other bullfrogs) weighing as much as themselves! What people forget about bullfrogs, is that they are basically giant mouths attacked to a body with a huge stomach and are ravenous predators. A pack of bullfrogs hunting at night can decimate a pond. Funny thing is, the main prey that that snapping turtles eat and prefer are bullfrogs! If they are hanging out and doing well you prob have a bullfrog problem already. Killing the snappers will only make it worse. That being said, I love snapper meat. Mmm, like little like filets in each side of the head. Gotta know how to do it though. How to get them ready before you slaughter/butcher them. Gotta get rid of the swamp flavor. You do that by keeping them in tubs nice and cool in the shade and keep the fresh water constantly changed and clean and fresh. Very important. Anyway, I like turtle and I like eating bullfrog too, so I say eat the turtles, and we’ll all have a lot more bullfrogs to gig and eat! Disclaimer: of course, if we fail to keep up and kill all those bullfrogs now, basically no waterfowl babies roaming free around the ponds are gonna survive, just so we all understand. They’re gonna be bullfrog dinner for sure. Just like that. Down the hatch. *Gulp.*
I prefer too just trudge into my pond and haul out snappers with my bare hands! Works way more successfully if you know what you're doing. I love them though and snappers are really misunderstood so I just take pictures and then release them.
I thought these were a protected species
Like to see that metal rods hook he has
Couldn't you use circle hooks?
Bryon thats what i use
This is really sad for me but it’s also good for the environment, The reason its sad for me is because I have a pet snapping turtle and I’m scared it might grow up to be like this
What kind of line is that?
30-50 lb test line.
I used 50lb that i got at Walmart and size 5 hook with chicken as bait. And caught two large snappers yesterday.
Ironic. A goose hunter not wanting anything hunting the geese.
All my ponds fish disappeared, thousands of catfish and menners gone. I need to trap the turtles
Anyone on here willing to ship a young snapper turtle to me I'll pay.
Go fishing and catch one.
@@esongbirds7978 what if there's no in my region?
@@zakpetricgrajfoner2480 Pet store
I’ve used steak
Cook it turn it around on the table , plate not needed , handy !
Are you gonna remove that hook .
Haha lol
I would like to see a way to catch a turtle without harming it. I don't think a lot of people want to turn these into turtle soup, only remove them
So what would you do with the turtle? Some other ponds problem?
You’ve never tried turtle soup! Delicious!! I make it and it’s a big hit.
Try cooking it caldereta style..
The animals r standing ashore i see !
How big ur pan must be for snapturtlesoup !
Call the police they kidnaping the turtle
YU CONG u all eat cats what's the difference???
Monte Maguire ayo you petty for that😂😂
We have 2 in our pond & it killed our ducklings, need to catch & releases elsewhere.
I have 2 Brittany Spaniels that love the water.I also have snapping turtles in the pond and both dogs have got bit on the leg by a snapper.Cost close to $400.00 to get a dog patched at Vet up from a turtle bite!! I hate them and am going to do all I can to get rid of them.Anyone want a turtle to eat?😂
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should at least dispatch it at the scene and clean it, no need to keep the hook in and let it suffer
Not if your planning to eat it.
this suck dont he
rt the pour turtle
Why would you eat these beautiful animals
ik. it is terrible
Gavin Salinas There horrible means creatures they took my brothers hand off
Shouldn't of let your brother near it then, huh.
Gavin Salinas ur are a snowflake
We eat em cause they can ruin a pond and they taste dam good
not exactly a great method. you could end up catching baits fish on these lines.
YOU ARE LITERALLY KILLING TURTLES AND TREATING THEM LIKE TRASH
Those snapping turtles are trash
Because they are lmao
So
Because they were harming his geese, no point in keeping something like that.
Yes! Isn’t it wonderful!
Why not just drag a big net threw the water relocate the turtles and let the fish back in
They bury in mud when not hunting?
Because you dont want them to destroy other people's ponds
Kisi ke much me kata thush ke pakdna koi good wali baat nahi hai
pitty. The turtles are almost extinct. The one they catched was already 20 years old...:(
LOL! No they are not almost extinct.
This is just rude why would you even do this then put them in a sack JUST LET THEM BE
They’re a nuisance to pond owners because they go for ducks and geese and turtle meat is can be prepared well to eat
Y u eat these lovely animals
Matthew Niedbala because they taste good
Awful. You don’t kill turtles. Shameful. You are worse than m-13 evil.
Best eating in the world
oakwhiteshoes girl, right? Or just a millennial? Same difference.