Snapping Turtles

[MossRoad]

Snappers usually flee from people. They are tasty, from what I have heard. The alligator snapper can grow to several feet in lenght and severl hundred pounds. However, there are fewer and fewer of these giants, as it takes them a hundred years or more to reach this size. The smaller ones are a diffeent variety and are fairly common, although their population in a pond can be wiped out by severl eager trappers. That would be sad.

I also know that a one footer can easily take off a finger at your knuckle.

I grew up on a lake with lots of turtles. I have never been bitten by one. I have also seen a rather large pike bite off the head, tail and legs of a snapper. And I have been bitten on the foot by a pike when I was a teenager. I'd be more worried about a toothy fish than a turtle.

 

[RonL]

Ed

When I was A Kid I went fishing on the Quabog River with my Dad. Had a very succesful day. At the end of the day we rowed ashore and pulled in our catch. We had a stringer full of fish heads.

RonL

 

[micromike]

I live on a small lake (27 acres) with snappers. We have them in all sizes, one is probably over three feet across and 125 to 150 lbs. Been trying to get a picture of him for years but they are very shy.

Left a stringer full of bluegills on a metal stringer hanging off the dock. Somehow they all got off one night. Must have been a feast for the snappers cause there were probably 15 to 20 fish. Not one left!

We go skinnydipping all the time (at night). All parts still intact...so far! Lol!!

 

[Richard]

<font color=blue>We go skinnydipping all the time (at night). All parts still intact...so far! Lol!!</font color=blue>

well, with a name like micro...../w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

(sorry..I just coudn't resist)

 

[RichZ]

We have huge snapping turtles in our creek. We see the females in the spring when they lay eggs. We've had many over a foot long. They are not pests at all, as has been already posted, they will flee from people. Basically, most people never even know that they're there. They won't bother you. Don't worry about them.

Rich
"What a long strange trip it's been."