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Originally Posted by Descant
Are they protected? If they stink when out of the water is the turtle soup not good?
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They don’t “stink” per se, perhaps any mud may have been the odiferous, culprit. I have them in my yard every year laying eggs (beaver swamp on my property line)
I once caught one in the yard as a youth (per order of my dear mother) who wanted me to put it in the trunk of her car whereupon she took it to a local Chinese restaurant.
They were very excited to see it and they offered her $20 which she happily took as they all shouted “tortor soup”!
Biggest one I ever saw was near the Merrimack River in Methuen, MA
I would fish and bow fish for carp in the backwaters along route 110 known as the Lowell/Lawrence Boulevard. The snapper was ensconced in a nasty brush filled section of the backwater and his hiding place was beneath a half sheet of discarded plywood. It’s head had to be 4-5” wide as that was all that was exposed. Try as I might, I couldn’t get it to bite my bait offerings...although I have no idea how I would have been able to haul such a beast up the bank...
Just a little turtle anecdote from my youth (circa late 1950’s)