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<blockquote data-quote="rla442" data-source="post: 1492029" data-attributes="member: 13688"><p>What kind of turtles? Snapping turtles are pretty easy. Even a hunk of meat on a fishing pole will catch them. </p><p></p><p>I trap a couple of different pond and swamps for snapping turtles for cleaning out and butchering. If your going to clean them and eat them I made a 24 x 24 x 36 live trap out of a hog/cattle panel with a piece of heavy #9 wire for a trip on the drop door. Throw the trap in the pond with 4 -6 inches of the top sticking out so they can breath when caught. I bait with as cheap as I can find uncooked rope or linked sausage in an onion sack wired to the bottom middle/back of the trap.</p><p></p><p>Before I made my trap it used a milk jug/laundry soap jug tied to a string. Run a hook through a piece of meat that the fish cant pick apart and hang it from the jug. Oily piece of meat works best, rotten meat doesn't work too good on snappers. Hook size doesn't matter cause a snapper doesn't chew, it goes right down its big throat. On a good day, you can throw the jug out and watch the air bubbles from the bottom as the turtle come a runnin. </p><p>The only issue with the jug and hook is, you cant keep them for a week to clean them out to eat. They will die a lot of times from swallowing the hook, that's why I went a cage trap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rla442, post: 1492029, member: 13688"] What kind of turtles? Snapping turtles are pretty easy. Even a hunk of meat on a fishing pole will catch them. I trap a couple of different pond and swamps for snapping turtles for cleaning out and butchering. If your going to clean them and eat them I made a 24 x 24 x 36 live trap out of a hog/cattle panel with a piece of heavy #9 wire for a trip on the drop door. Throw the trap in the pond with 4 -6 inches of the top sticking out so they can breath when caught. I bait with as cheap as I can find uncooked rope or linked sausage in an onion sack wired to the bottom middle/back of the trap. Before I made my trap it used a milk jug/laundry soap jug tied to a string. Run a hook through a piece of meat that the fish cant pick apart and hang it from the jug. Oily piece of meat works best, rotten meat doesn't work too good on snappers. Hook size doesn't matter cause a snapper doesn't chew, it goes right down its big throat. On a good day, you can throw the jug out and watch the air bubbles from the bottom as the turtle come a runnin. The only issue with the jug and hook is, you cant keep them for a week to clean them out to eat. They will die a lot of times from swallowing the hook, that's why I went a cage trap. [/QUOTE]
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