In this video I went to catch an alligator snapping turtle. Please consider purchasing merch: outsidethelevees.myspreadshop.com Or use my code OTL20 for 20% Off at store.mossyoak.com
I put my tackle away for over 3 years once due to soft shell turtles. Protected in Mo. They'd float around seeing fishermen on the bank, go under looking for the food they knew would be there. I'd always try to get the hook out because hooks don't rust away that fast in freshwater. One was hooked in the front foot, thought I had his head covered with my boot, damn thing got that head out and got me. I grabbed my hatchet out of the box and off came the head. Decided I wasn't going to pay that big fine, lose my license for 10 years. When I did start back up it was seldom for cats, mostly crappie.
I love catching snappers. I also really love watching these kinda videos. I wish i lived in Louisiana and not Minnesota. Y'all are blessed to have such amazing wildlife that you can harvest. I'm 23 and grew up and still live in the sticks but dang son i wanna move out to Louisiana someday
I must say this is one of my favorite videos because it brings back awesome memories of turtles I used to catch we caught them up to a little over 120 lbs we've got quite a few hours of videos us camping and turtle fishing Thanks again for another awesome video I really enjoyed it and as always I'm really looking forward to seeing the next video
Last snapper I caught was 30 lbs and put me in the hospital with a hernia..took 30 min to get him in..I was in a 10 ft john boat,by myself,he went to the cattails( they are do if they are there)and yes..ate him..gave it up after that one..glad you turned it loose..caught em for 50 yrs..have fun!
Hi Jared, love your videos. I come to St Bernard about once a month fishing. We are in Laurel Ms. Love the area but still learning my way around. Would love for you to hop in the boat with me and give me a tour.
I miss some good turtle! Been decades since I've had any. There's plenty of ol' snappers or they wouldn't let you harvest them there, 1 of 2 states that allow it. I don't know about soft shell, but there's plenty of meat along the shell too, actually the best meat on a snapper. Step-Gramps using me as a distraction at 4 years old, snagged a 307lb snapper. Had turtle a dozen ways but my favorite was veggie stock with lite seasoning in the pressure cooker on shell meat, frig for a day, then ate as cold meat on crackers with sharp cheddar, or aged longhorn coby. My backyard is mown grass to the water of a Florida river, soft shell and snappers all day on a downed tree trunk across the river, but I will not break laws, especially fish and game laws.Maybe Gerald, a seafood dealer I sell wholesale to, will pick me up some on his Wed. trips to La. He and his family have several trawlers there and Tx, he brings back a twin-screw reefer box truck of shrimp and crawdads. Have me jonesing for some turtle now!
Caught one back in 89 , found it almost dead on someone's limb line on the Sabine river, It barely fit in the bed of a Chevy luv, with it turned sideways, no telling how old it was but like I said it was on its way out after a big flood, but we harvested 160 lbs of good meat from it and for years we had the shell at our camp until another bad storm came and reclaimed it
We got a 307lb snapper, sounds about the same size in the F250 pickup bed. I was 4, was decades ago, don't know if I ever heard what the meat weight was. Was up a small side creek of a channel we had running across miles of bottom row crop land. Step-gramps would come out for planting season. Came to the house, told me to grab my gumboots, he grabbed stuff and I had no idea what was going on. Took 10' of #9 alloy wire, one end to a log chain, hammered a V hook on the other, tossed me over the creek and told me to find a branch and keep the snappers attention beating the weeds and running back and forth. When it turned and seen him, in the mouth went that V hook, it bit down and the wire came through the skin of the bottom jaw. Chain on the hitch bar of the Deere and to the house we went.
That snapping turtle was a bruiser. I looked it up and they’ve been around for 50 million years. I’d be curious to know how many folks in Louisiana have had an extremity nibbled on while wading in the swamps.
man o man, my wife said don't use the good dishes, i tried a few of your recipes. she liked the final product but man she had a fit with the mess in her kitchen.
