Snappers

[Mikey]

Seven different kinds of meat?

Dayum!!!

[Goober McTuber]

Check out this guy catching snapping turtles . . .

So you got guys like this down there JSC, Sam, 'Spray?

Yes. They're considered erudite down there.

[The Seer]

Ernie Brown, "the turtle clown" has better cadence.

[indyfrisco]

I've been turtle hunting like that many times. We go every year to Kentucky and do it. We'll set traps in some ponds and fill them with fish heads. We hunt for two days and then check the traps before we leave.

Our process is a little different though. We use our feet to stomp on the edges of shallow creeks/ditches/ponds. You are basically walking in waters that have seen very little human activity for quite some time or rarely. The water is very stagnant, the mud smells like shit and the mosquitoes are everywhere. Anyhow, once you feel the shell with your foot, you get your hands on top of that shell ASAP. You then work your hands to the edge of the shell. Once there, you start going all around the edge until you feel the "points" as you can see here.



The "points" let you know you are at the ass end of that beast rather than the "de-digiter" up front. While keeping one hand on top of the shell keeping that turtle down in the mud, you use the other hand to grasp a hold of that tail. In one quick motion, you remove the hand on top of the shell, grab the tail with both hands and pull up. Pulling a 40 lb. snapper out of thick mud is tough, and if you don't get it up and quick, that bastard rears around and starts eating flesh.

Yes, it is a completely redneck thing to do. The only way I got the courage to get in there and start pressing my bare hands into the mud was to drink about 12 beers first. A little liquid courage is all it takes to get in there and get dirty. I must admit, I had a much greater sense of satisfaction after pulling my first turtle from the mud than by getting my first deer with a bow.

[Moby Dick]

Living in Mississippi the black folk would pay cash money for a fat turtle to cook up.


Here in Oklahoma tho..it's all about the Noodling.

Pauls Valley (Town i used to live in) has an annual "Noodle-fest". The town of 6,000 nearly doubles for the day with folks bringing in massive 70+ lb cats..

Work with a guy who won it last year..the guy is obsessed with noodling/hunting anything to do with outdoors. He's constantly on the hunt for bathtubs to throw out in lakes. Has scuba gear the whole 9 yards for noodling purposes.

[Moby Dick]

"It aint just for football...the gatorade is for the turtle-man too!"

[smackaholic]

what is it with rednecks and a complete lack of fear? the self preservation gene must be recessive in them.

anyone ever watch that swamp logger show?

was watching it a few weeks ago. skeeter was driving this ginormous swamp buggy thing through the swamp. you sit at least 8 ft off the ground on this rig. all of a sudden skeeter sees about a 5 ft gator right in front of his rig and decides he is in the mood for gator for lunch, so he fukking swan dives right onto the gator. the gator gets away and skeeter just laughs and says the ground was a little harder than he thought it would be. i think he was a little pissed lunch got away.

[FLW Buckeye]

Seven different kinds of meat?

Dayum!!!

Redneck Turducken! Yum,yum...

[Truman]

It ain't just for rednecks... Apparently, snappin' turtles are for Jackasses too:



Chris Pontius gets a "kiss" from a baby snapper in this pic, but Steve O gets the Real Deal in the next Jackass flick - right on the ass! 'Bout shit myself when I saw the preview.

Absolutely NOTHING scarier than unexpectantly hauling one of those 40-pound bastards outta the water gigged to the business end of a hook when runnin' a trot line. To say those fuckers are right-pissed is an understatement...

[Dinsdale]

runnin' a trot line.

Kind of like "sport"... if you're an inbred, redneck, POS A-hole butcher.


Did I ever mention that in the first scene of the first Jackass movie, the place they rented the car for the smash-up-derby from was right up the street from my house?


It's a day care center, or some such shit now.