When I was just a youth I caught a soft shell turtle while using a crawfish tail for bait. My father and I caught several snakes on limb lines while catfishing. Another time my father and I were crappie fishing from the bank at a bridge over the local lake. He hooked into something that did not fight like a fish, but had some weight to it. When he managed to get it to the bank it was a stringer of crappie and there was probably 12 or 15 crappie on it. Another guy fishing nearby claimed his buddy had lost the stringer a few days before. He took the stringer to return them to his buddy, but I always wondered about that!