Turtle

[voyageur1688]

  NOODLING TURTLES??? NOT THIS BOY!!!  I value my digits all where they are. Maybe served on noodles but not noodling ta get em.
Voy

[Hanshi]

I've been "noodling" in the past.  I'm very, very good at staying just behind the guy sticking his hand under the bank overhang in case he screams and I need to run.

[kybackwoodsman]

lol, yeah it sounds crazy but snappers are LESS inclined to bite under water, if you use your hands start high and come down on the shell and feel for the ridges on the back, they always point back to the tail, once you got him by the tail he cant bite ya..  its just a southern thang.. i guess but its makes for a intresting day.. 

[Red Badger]

Ya all can keep the noodleing thing... I used to scuba dive and learned a lesson when one of my dive buddies stuck his hand in a hole in the coral... we fought off several sharks who were attracted by the blood coming form is hand when the moray eel that lived in that hole decided to take a bite....

[kybackwoodsman]

not many moray eel in the green river and watersheds.. but plent of freshwater eel thems good eating too.

[DandJofAZ]

not many moray eel in the green river and watersheds.. but plent of freshwater eel thems good eating too.

Is that what that long skinny fish  is???
Doug

[kybackwoodsman]

well depends, fresh water eel look like.. well eels.. stay on bottoms.  we also have ALOT of longnosed gar which is a really long skinny bony fish with a set of serious teeth. also have what most locals call a grinnil, which i think is actually a type of blackfish.. they kinda look like a cross between a bass and a carp, live in nasty sluggish water and get big.  the worst thing about them is they have a bad habit of biting people or anything in the water, and the one i managed to catch had some seriously nasty sharp teeth.  now the ky state gov. has reintroduced gator gar in the green river system, so we got all kinds of nasties swimming around, but some really nice flathead cats.  
         PS i was wrong about the grinnil, its actually a bowfin fish, i managed to catch one in a slough a few years ago, but how i did it is another conversation all together.!!

[voyageur1688]

 Around here we got eel pout.
Voy

[NAULTRICK1]

I've been "noodling" in the past.  I'm very, very good at staying just behind the guy sticking his hand under the bank overhang in case he screams and I need to run.

I'm with ya M'man, and iffin anybody's sreamin 5 bucks says I'm outta the water first 

[oneshot 1]

Our Local New Game Warden wated to give me a Ticket on this Turtle.He tried telling me it was a Protected Alligator Snapper,I finally convinced him it was a Common Snapper.Told my wife I get tierd breaking in New Game Wardens 



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[kybackwoodsman]

ive seen a few gator snappers, not hard to tell the difference between a gator snapper and a common snapper. some people need to stay behind a desk, probly never seen a wild snapper of either kind just pictures in books and looking to make some waves!

[voyageur1688]

Only saw one gator snapper in my life and that was over 30 years ago.   We do have alotta snappers up here though with 14-16 inches accross the shell being common and some of the big ones are outright huge. I have seen some at a friends old cabin that could take an entire cornish game hen in 1 bite.
Voy

[kybackwoodsman]

my grandfather and my uncle caught a snapper out of the river years ago that was the size of a #3 washtub.. thats pretty big. course them gator snappers down further south will go well over 100 lbs.

[voyageur1688]

  Aint sure on weights of em up here but I know some of em do get mighty big.
Voy

[kybackwoodsman]

yeah, on adverage a common snapper you find around here can go between 15 to 30 lbs. but ive seen bigger in the rivers and one in particular in an old farm pond in northern ky.  i swear it came up like a cork one day while i was fishing and its head was the size of a football, with a 6 inch or so neck.  BIG turtle!  turtles that size aint to good for eating though, tough as boot leather.