The Hunter was hunted

You know some folks have predator instincts like other animals . That said I probably fall into that category when I get all focused on a prey item myself .
So there I am playing with the creek bluegill and ketching them well and playing with them lightly . I let them get really frisky and pull and splash and give it the best they got for the size they are . Take a photo on the prettier ones and drop them at my feet in the water near the rocks i am on .
So after 20 or so I thought did that rock just move out of the corner of my eye near me ? :yikes
Sure enough i focused my eyes a bit on that area closer and low and behold I am being very quietly and patiently STALKED by a whopper snapper ! :yikes
Sure enough every sunfish splashing caused it to advance on my position and after it got about a rod length away i thought …..oh what the heck why not ….
Lets rodeo BIG BOY ….:Rofl
So the next sunny in got to toy around and entice a strike from said snapper and let me just say this , I knew they were fast , but to be sure it happened so fast it was amazing .
The entire fish disappeared when it struck and it turned and ran with it !
So it became a serious tug of war for a good bit and then about when i thought I might video this event , the dino turtle said that is quite enough and spit said sunny right back at me ….:crazy:
and that is my fishee/turtle story yawl .
KABOOM is the word btw :highfive

Those boys are hard to get up once they hunker down on the bottom. I used to fish for them out of our farm pond. They had taken over the pond.

Nice pics as always. Kaboom!!!

Those are some mean critters. They can break a sizeabke stick i Their jaws

It's all fiun and games until someone loses a toe to a snapping turtle

They sure are fast and seem to always be in a foul mood. I remember guys use to specialize in catching them in the Delaware River above New Hope PA. Huge hooks, salt water rods and hotdogs for bait. They sold them to a couple of local restaurants for turtle soup! Sometimes on the Neshaminy Creek you will see a duckling in the line disappear in the blink of an eye.
Bob

Nice looking Gills, that old Snapper was just looking for a free handout.

That’s cool! I have caught a few softshells and they feel like you are pulling in a huge fish. I have never caught a snapper.


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They sure are fast and seem to always be in a foul mood. I remember guys use to specialize in catching them in the Delaware River above New Hope PA. Huge hooks, salt water rods and hotdogs for bait. They sold them to a couple of local restaurants for turtle soup! Sometimes on the Neshaminy Creek you will see a duckling in the line disappear in the blink of an eye.
Bob

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when I was about 12 or 13 I lived in Pennsylvania and used to fish for carp in a huge pond that was used for ice skating in the winter .
it had a large duck population in it and between the one footed big ducks and the duckling groups that went away day by day I often wondered who was doing that to them poor ducks .
an old timer told me it was a monster snapping turtle which I thought was just to scare me , until one day I foul hooked that there monster snapper in the foot and fought with it for half a day to land it . man was I in the news and mean REALLY , the local newspaper came out and took photos and I was the hero for removing that menace from the duck pond and then the local French food place contacted me and paid me what I thought was BIG money for it and even invited me to have a bowl of soup they made with it .
it was VERY tasty and I used to money to buy more tackle of course :Rofl
p.s. haven't killed a turtle on purpose since btw

They are very beautiful to me, but beware,, they are mean. Nice story!

Great story Ketchn!
They do seem to always be grumpy!


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Originally Posted by Ketchn

when I was about 12 or 13 I lived in Pennsylvania and used to fish for carp in a huge pond that was used for ice skating in the winter .
it had a large duck population in it and between the one footed big ducks and the duckling groups that went away day by day I often wondered who was doing that to them poor ducks .
an old timer told me it was a monster snapping turtle which I thought was just to scare me , until one day I foul hooked that there monster snapper in the foot and fought with it for half a day to land it . man was I in the news and mean REALLY , the local newspaper came out and took photos and I was the hero for removing that menace from the duck pond and then the local French food place contacted me and paid me what I thought was BIG money for it and even invited me to have a bowl of soup they made with it .
it was VERY tasty and I used to money to buy more tackle of course :Rofl
p.s. haven't killed a turtle on purpose

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If you caught it today you would have your own reality TV show

Tv reality show ...that's a hoot
and btw . i didn't mention that the entire bluegill went down its throat in about 1/10000 of a second on the strike .
sure was really cool to see it in person in clear water up close and personal i tell ya .
looked like one of the TV nature shows except NOT in slow motion rotfl

Pretty fish.

Regards


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Tv reality show ...that's a hoot
and btw . i didn't mention that the entire bluegill went down its throat in about 1/10000 of a second on the strike .
sure was really cool to see it in person in clear water up close and personal i tell ya .
looked like one of the TV nature shows except NOT in slow motion rotfl

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Definitely some mean critters. People keep up the the Kardashians. I happen to find the snapping turtle more interesting. Read some place that the Indians used to use them to find drowned tribesmen. An aquatic bloodhound of sorts.