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Use a pressure cooker and it will be tender.

Then you can send me the recipe...;)

Yum! One day I've gotta go after a few of them. I love turtle soup and to buy the meat costs an arm and a leg. 'Course, I guess if I'm not careful, catchin' 'em might cost me a finger or two, but with a splash of Sherry it would be worth it!

Iv had tons of leaders broke ,we opted to use para cord never had one broke yet ,just a thought

did you ever have the paracord fray.  I am in a swamp that is full of downed trees and the get all tied up in them.  Where do you buy the cord as well.  Thanks

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did you ever have the paracord fray.  I am in a swamp that is full of downed trees and the get all tied up in them.  Where do you buy the cord as well.  Thanks

I did not like to set hooks because I think that you will kill the ones that are too small to cook,at least in my opinion. When you do set them,use a short line so that they don't have a chance to get tangled up & drown under water. I have found them like that & I would not advise eating one that was dead before you found it. When I did set lines I used parachute cord with an approx. 10" leader that I made out of 12 gauge copper electrical wire. Never lost any like that. They don't seem to be {leader shy}. I bought the chute line at G. M. in the boating section.it is pretty cheap.  sam

I have been lucky i have not had any small ones on the hook.  I honestly dont see how they could eat it with the size of the hook that the fish commish requires.  I set my jugs at about 8 in the evening and i am back at 7 in the am.  I found some para cord that i had from some point in time (have no idea when though lol) and i attached that to my leaders, they are about 10 inches long.  I caught two more this morning with one being about 25lbs i will upload the pics tomorrow.  I let mine soak as well but only for about 2 days.  I change the water about every 3 hours, it is crazy how nasty the water gets in that time.  I havent decided if i am going to make soup or fry some up i have never had it fried so that will be new to me.  I have got 5 so far this season and just got permission to jug some really nice farm ponds so i think i will get to try both.  Now the frog legs make it sound even better i will have to learn to target them next lol.

I always figured snappers would carry a crapload of bad stuff seeing that they are basically bottom feeders. Are there eating restrictions on them? I catch them all the time around pittsburgh fishing for catfish and wanted to try makin some soup sometime. It seems like people eat these things like crazy with no limitations...im very hesitant to say the least haha

Shoot em,Clint ! Shoot em!!!

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Yum! One day I've gotta go after a few of them. I love turtle soup and to buy the meat costs an arm and a leg. 'Course, I guess if I'm not careful, catchin' 'em might cost me a finger or two, but with a splash of Sherry it would be worth it!

Gills,As us OLD handfishermen say,don't worry about anything that you have more than 1 of.  lol  sam

 
    (Oh, THAT'S how you quote somebody!)

turtle soup [at least what i had an make]is vegetable soup w/ pickling spice bay leaves an cayane pepper added
this time of year evary body has fresh veg in garden so fresh turtle + fresh veggies = one hell of a great soup