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Are softshell turtles in LA/MS common or fairly rare?
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:46 am
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Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:48 am to 308
Very common in CENLA. I can see one every day in the shitty little bayou behind my house.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:51 am to 308
I think it depends on where you're at. Can't remember seeing any around Pierre Part or Bayou Lafourche and surrounding swamps growing up.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:52 am to AlxTgr
very very common
Posted on 12/30/21 at 9:53 am to 308
They have a bunch in the bayou behind the house. Had one in my pond for a while.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:08 am to 308
The closer you are to coonasses the less you will find them...
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:16 am to AlxTgr
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Very common in CENLA. I can see one every day in the shitty little bayou behind my house.
Saw one in a millet field in Rapides Parish. That thing looked like it had a shell 2.5 ft wide
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:18 am to 308
Years back when i was on a lease in Clayton. There was quite a bunch of them in the little Tensas river.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:22 am to upgrayedd
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Saw one in a millet field in Rapides Parish. That thing looked like it had a shell 2.5 ft wide
The biggest one I've ever seen was in the middle of Arsenal Park by the state capitol. We went into the museum for 15 minutes and the damn thing was gone when we came back out. I still don't know how it was able to get the hell out of dodge so quickly.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:23 am to upgrayedd
One behind my house causes a wake when it slides in.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:26 am to AlxTgr
And their necks are damn near as long as their body. I love eating them but I’m more comfortable with 6 cottonmouths in the boat than one big soft shell in the middle of the night when running trot lines and 3/4 drunk.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:27 am to tenfoe
I am not a fan. My father, who would basically eat anything, never ate those for some reason.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:28 am to 308
Pretty common in Washington/St.Tammany parishes. I've caught them as big as a large pizza on trotlines in the Bogue Chitto river.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:31 am to AlxTgr
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My father, who would basically eat anything, never ate those for some reason.
There isn’t much meat on them, but what is there is sweet and clean. Probably has to do with where they live. I catch them in gravel pits and in the river and they are good eating. I would imagine nasty water makes nasty turtles, although I’ve eaten snapping turtles from cow ponds that were just fine.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:34 am to tenfoe
More predatory than scavenger, right?
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:37 am to 308
Every sandy river or creek has loads of soft shells
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:42 am to Cuz413
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Can't remember seeing any around Pierre Part or Bayou Lafourche and surrounding swamps growing up.
Still the case. Nothin but red ears and stink pots. Snappers are more common than a soft shell. Let me find one crossing the road though, I “help him cross” every time.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:44 am to wickowick
quote:Which applies to every animal, plant, and insect, baw.
The closer you are to coonasses the less you will find them...
Posted on 12/30/21 at 10:58 am to Big_country346
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stink pots
I thought that was an Ellic thing.
Posted on 12/30/21 at 11:34 am to 308
Pretty common in the Metairie canals. I remember seeing a giant as a kid. Just the shell was probably over 3 feet long.
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