06-25-2008, 11:02 PM
I wasnt a kid, and it was about 30 years ago when I met up with a snapping turtle late one night, I had been fishing all day catching at the time a limit of gills crappies and perch along with a few rockies, the limit was 50 gills and crappies and 100 perch and no limit on the rockies.
like I said, I had fished all day and was looking to pick up my last crappie when I noticed a light tug on the boat. that was strange, cause it was now dark-thirty all the speed boats were off the lake, the water was calm as glass and black as midnight.
I turned my head only to see a big black head the size of a basket ball champing at the fish on my stringer. as you know turtles spook easily so I must have been sitting way to quietly and still for to long for that turtle to have gotten that close to me.
When but after about a good 5 seconds the turtle spotted me and dunked his head back in the water, and 2 seconds later he gave me a wave with his shell, "it had to have been about as big as a voltswagon if she were an inch.
I reached over, pulled up my stringer, only to find 15 fish heads on the first of the 5 spring loaded keys of a metal stringer and the other keys, nothing,
I got to sleep early that night, no fish to clean. tho I had lost my days catch, I was not all that upset, some what disapointed maybe but deffenently not bothered, How often dose man come across another creature that was alive when their great grand parents were born?
I was just happy she didnt want to climb up on my rock "boat" to have her breakfast. [angelic][laugh] I beleive I was blessed and deffenantly honered to have met up with the bohemian of the deap.![[Image: bobwink.gif]](http://www.bigfishtackle.com/images/gforum/bobwink.gif)
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like I said, I had fished all day and was looking to pick up my last crappie when I noticed a light tug on the boat. that was strange, cause it was now dark-thirty all the speed boats were off the lake, the water was calm as glass and black as midnight.
I turned my head only to see a big black head the size of a basket ball champing at the fish on my stringer. as you know turtles spook easily so I must have been sitting way to quietly and still for to long for that turtle to have gotten that close to me.
When but after about a good 5 seconds the turtle spotted me and dunked his head back in the water, and 2 seconds later he gave me a wave with his shell, "it had to have been about as big as a voltswagon if she were an inch.
I reached over, pulled up my stringer, only to find 15 fish heads on the first of the 5 spring loaded keys of a metal stringer and the other keys, nothing,
I got to sleep early that night, no fish to clean. tho I had lost my days catch, I was not all that upset, some what disapointed maybe but deffenently not bothered, How often dose man come across another creature that was alive when their great grand parents were born?
I was just happy she didnt want to climb up on my rock "boat" to have her breakfast. [angelic][laugh] I beleive I was blessed and deffenantly honered to have met up with the bohemian of the deap.
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[center]no exaguration took place in the telling of this story, all facts are true,
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