Who catches, cooks, and eats em?

Me!

Some in my pond, come on over.

I've ate them many times. Good stuff! Caught a few to show the kids then released them. Never cleaned one.

Used to catch and eat a lot of them. Didn't do any turtle trapping this year

Do here.

I do

Are you talking about small bluefish? I'd rather eat them than the big blues. I would never eat a snapping turtle.

A snapping turtle grabbed a wild turkey gobbler here a few years ago. The turtle backed into the pond and drowned the turkey, then ate him. He left the skin and feathers. Several people heard the commotion and witnessed the event.

Doubt many snapping turtles have ever enjoyed wild turkey.

I use to catch them for Grandad and some others that ate them, but for me..NOPE!

I can't get past the smell of them, alive or cooked.

I was fishing the other day. A grey squirrel ran out on a floating log in the pond and got a hickory nut that was on the end of the log. On his way back to the bank a largemouth bass swallowed that squirrel.
A little while later I guess that bass got hungry again. He put that hickory nut back on the end of the log.

I don't target them, but if I come across one I'll grab it.

No, but I have on a warm summers night . . .

How do you guys like it cooked? Neighbor gives me some , cleaned every summer, I trade him fish. I’ve always par boiled and fried. It’s good, I dust it with a Cajun seasoning, s and p, garlic powder. I bet it’s good in a red soup.

John

Pretty much how we always do it.
You get it tender, it’s really good.

Vegetable soup, heavy with barley grain.
Probably a regional thing.

I have but its been a while. Softshell turtle is the way to go! Delicious meat!

Snapper soup is tasty. I had a friend that ground the turtle meat and made patties, he said he liked to chew them until the flavor was gone and then spit it out.

Same here with or without the barley

i will be set for them Thursday