04-25-2004, 01:58 AM
Last year at the end of summer, I went to a aniversary thing for my mom's side and it was in Minnesota. It was at some apartment building thing and they in the back yard was this huge pond. It had bluegilll and pike in it. Their was a bridgegoing across it and there was people fishing on it. There was this little guy (probably 4 or 5 y/o) and he had a little snoopy fishing pole. But he got his line all tangled up and I think his mom was tired of fixing it so he was just watching the blugills under the bridge. The people I talked to said they were not catching anything. Not even 1 bite. The blugill were down there in good numbers, you could see them, but they wouldnt bite.
But being the fisherman I am, you know, I thought I could get one to bite[cool]. So I ask the mom if I could use her sons fishing pole. She says "Knock yourself out." So I get his line under control and tie on something like a fuzzy grub with a worm. So I'm jigging it up and down right in front of the bluegill's face and nothing. All of a sudden this HUGE snapping turtle comes out of no where and is headed right toward a bluegill and has dinner on his mind. Well he runs right into my jig and I snag him. Now all the little kids were yelling " bring him to shore!" So I make my way over to the shore and he is still hooked (but not through his skin, he his just hooked by the pressure of the rod.) So then I get him close to shore and there is this other little guy and a stick trying to touch him with it lol. The turtle takes a bite out of the stick and then swims away unharmed.
That was one huge snapping turtle though.
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But being the fisherman I am, you know, I thought I could get one to bite[cool]. So I ask the mom if I could use her sons fishing pole. She says "Knock yourself out." So I get his line under control and tie on something like a fuzzy grub with a worm. So I'm jigging it up and down right in front of the bluegill's face and nothing. All of a sudden this HUGE snapping turtle comes out of no where and is headed right toward a bluegill and has dinner on his mind. Well he runs right into my jig and I snag him. Now all the little kids were yelling " bring him to shore!" So I make my way over to the shore and he is still hooked (but not through his skin, he his just hooked by the pressure of the rod.) So then I get him close to shore and there is this other little guy and a stick trying to touch him with it lol. The turtle takes a bite out of the stick and then swims away unharmed.
That was one huge snapping turtle though.
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