weeds seem to hold a lot of turtles.

How many traps do you run? What is a good days catch?

a good day would be not going in over my wadders or my head not getting a trap stolen or washed away or torn up by a beaver or muskrat or a very large turtle and not having to turn back too many undersized ones.


like these. all just a bit shy of our 13" law. oh well. lol

Do you sell the meat comercially?

That's what I was wondering. If you don't eat turtle yourself, what the heck do you do with all them turtles?

We see how good your turtle trapping skills are. Can't wait to see some fur catches this year.

I just shot milk out of my nose.......

Our gators would like those nets.

Affirm!

What size nets? you said sometimes they get tore up, do you repair them yourself or chunk them?

always repair them. these nets are too expensive to throw away.and you better know how to do it in the field too. guess i m the last girl scout standing as i am always prepaired.

So the trick to all this trapping stuff is the pink? Man, wish I'd known this 18 years ago....

Good stuff. Looks like you are taking care of business. keep up the good work.

Hey Mousie when you set traps and catch turtle that are too small...do you continue to trap the same area ?

My thought is if your trapping an area, releasing smaller ones. Do they not just come back ? And fill the trap again ?

Or...can you take them else where ? Where they can grow large due to food supply.

saw carp for sale in market here other day,,first time

going to have to go back to carp as bait. the skip jack is all gone. the weather has turned cooler. very odd for mid august






but enough chit chat back to work.

hey mousie are you trapping turtle for ADC work or do you just sale the turtles?

Mousie just keep doing what your doing to [Please excuse my language... I'm an idiot] with everybody else

I stopped worrying what others thought of me years ago. My life has become much easier since then.

How many traps are you running ??

Did you build them ?

If you want to come up on lake Erie I know some marshes

marshes are always good especially early on before the water gets hot and turtles head to deeper water. if there isnt deeper water turtles will often bury in mud to regulate their body temp.find the vegatation find the turtles. many snappers eat a great deal of plants. most turtle trappers dont even know this i ve found.early in the season and as summer winds down are the times they eat the most. here we have cattails arrowhead pond lily or lotus and several others.
Erie you say? how about i come up and we also take in a day of walleye fishing? know anything about that? lol

Hey mousie, read Kristen's signature. Some people on here do the same thing to her. Good luck!