No time to pull the nets and get ready for trapping season.

summer is over and the turtles have shut down on their feeding. time to get all the nets cleaned and repaired before storing them for winter. i had a pretty good season but its getting time to start thinking about trapping season which will be here all too soon.

Nicely done...

thanks Aaron. this isnt a "look how big this fish is i caught" photo by holding it too close to the camera. i m holding this up against me. i m only 5'4 and 115 pounds. snappers this big are few and far between.

That's a monster.

yeah i just let the small ones go lol





they do look like some kind of mini version of a dinosaur when on land

Mousie, you're an animal. LOL Keep it up...

people have send me questions asking what the poles are or made of. are they wooden? no. they are pvc (and scheduled 40 to be exact.)
they have a notch cut out on each end for a quick set up / take down. they are also light weight. much lighter than wood. the ones pictured above are camo painted. these are shoved in the mud vertically to stake the trap from moving. a cattail head and stem is broken off and shoved in the pvc to resemble a cattail from a distance. few fishermen recognize it or just avoid it altogether. the two side ones are just left white as this stands out under water. turtles eat some plant roots and stems and dead fish. these are somewhat white so i think white attracts them. please dont think i came up with this. i didnt. it was passed down to me as i am doing it with you.

I bet you would love these alligator snappers we got down here.

yes but arent they protected?

Yep but their still some thing to see, one very large critter.

i m already preparing for next year by freezing cut bait in my bait bags. i have a freezer full so i should be pretty good to start the turtle season with. unless of course i run out of coon bait have to raid it. lol

Congrats on a successful season.
Not many trapping turtles commercially anymore due to so many state regulations.

do you get many painters? I was looking for a couple for doing some slate calls.

It is illegal to keep 'cooters' in this state.

Thanks Grey.....doing some reading it looks like guys were using box turtle shells not painters.....I always assumed they were made with painter shells. If you happened across a box turtle shell and its legal to keep it holler.

What's the biggest u have caught

TTT fir all my turtle trapping buddies!!
Tim B

It hasn't closed yet. It's still in for another 6 days.