no thanks...but i'd love to watch a video of ya noodling them!
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Turtle noodling
- Thread starter Zach
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Getting the fool things out of a basket is nerve wracking enough, no damn way I’m feeling around in a log jam or under a bank for em.
And seeing one crossing the roads in SC is the same as LA.....you’d best not dilly dally or you will lose
They’re also escape artists so you’d best have more than a truck bed to put it in.....
And seeing one crossing the roads in SC is the same as LA.....you’d best not dilly dally or you will lose
They’re also escape artists so you’d best have more than a truck bed to put it in.....
An old guy where I used to work talked about noodling. He told a story about one of his crew that reached up to his armpits into a bank and got bit. Snappers don't let go when they latch onto something. He said they had to run to get a shovel to dig an access hole to get to the turtle...not sure if it was a BS story or not but I was around snappers all my childhood years. My family made soup a lot. They are definitely to be respected.
I can remember seeing a turtle heart, laying on the sink, making an occasional "beat". I remember one heart...24 hours after it was butchered...would still twitch every minute or so.
I can remember seeing a turtle heart, laying on the sink, making an occasional "beat". I remember one heart...24 hours after it was butchered...would still twitch every minute or so.
We used to bring turtles home from Erie. There was a commercial fishery located at Walnut Creek that would sell turtles. We brought a half dozen of them home and got back late one Sunday night and decided to butcher them the next day. We put them in our cement laundry tubs for the over night thinking there was no way they could get out. My bedroom was in the basement near those tubs. The next morning I got up and checked on the turtles...EVERY ONE got out! Our basement had all kinds of little nooks, covies, corners, and places for turtles to hide. I guess you could say that I noodled turtles in my basement that day!
I'm just glad that one wasn't under my bed! It could have been a surprise when I put my feet down as I got out of bed.
I'm just glad that one wasn't under my bed! It could have been a surprise when I put my feet down as I got out of bed.
We used to do this for stone crabs down in Murrells Inlet SC. Find a hole in the oyster beds and stick ya arm down it to the shoulder. Grab em by the claw and pull em out before they get ya with the other claw. I told the commercial guys down in FL about it n they looked at me like I was a fool haha. It took me two yrs watchin my boss do it to finally get the balls to try. Theyre claws are a like a snappers mouth on each arm. 19k lbs of force
I wish I still had pictures of some of the snappers we noodled out too. One of em snapped a wood paddle like a tooth pick. Let him back in. Once theyre over 20 lbs they are harder to flush out the swamp/apehouse taste. I know what yall mean about smellin em before you see em haha. Good god...