(j) Mission Accomplished

Well we set out last night to catch a snapping turtle to try to cook it up and try it out.  Got there early last night and set up the poles.  I do believe I missed one right off the bat, I think I pulled it right out of its mouth.  It was a long night, we were using chicken liver, raw chicken, and night crawlers.  Ronnie was sticking to night crawlers all night, which the water was pretty low so he was just catching bluegill and shad.  They wouldn’t leave him a lone last night, it was pretty funny watching him scramble for his poles all thru the night.  Now I was using chicken liver and raw chicken, I was getting hits on the chicken liver but not as much not sure whats going on with the catfish recently.  I then, after a few hours, I switched one pole to bread from my hoagie I had eaten, I saved two pieces of bread for carp.  Well after I hooked that on and set up the pole with my bite alarm I sat watching my bobbers sway in the breeze.

My bite alarm set up

Then all the sudden my alarm starts going off, big time, I jumped up and grab the pull.  I set the hook and knew right away it was a carp.  After a little bit of a fight I pulled it in and we set it in a tub we have set up to take some fish to his pond.  My alarm I bought at big carp tackle I have the link up on the right.

Not to big, but a nice fight

So we were pretty happy that we caught one carp for the pond, he would like to get around 10 for the pond.  So after the excitement I hooked another bread ball on and set it up.  My other pole I was using I set up raw chicken on it and cast it out.  Not long after I got a hit on the raw chicken one, and the one my bobber was going I had a good idea what it was.  I pulled the rod and set the hook, and once I felt what was on there I knew what we came for was on the line.  Well I pulled it in and there and behold it was a snapping turtle.  Ronnie then netted it out of the water and grab it by the tail, the only really safe place to hold one at.  I cut the line and we loaded it up in his explorer, and home we went.  Currently the turtle now is sitting in a bath tub at his moms place.  We are adding fresh water every so often to clean out the turtle, after the water remains to be clear its time to clean him up.  I will post more on the develop of this as it happens, and I will also post more pictures on here as we finish up the turtle.  now if anybody as any recipes on cooking it let me know we are going to try a little soup, deep fry, and grilling with it and see which one taste better,  till then.

Snapping turtle, loyalhanna dam