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Alligator Snapping Turtle Restoration
Posted on 4/23/14 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 4/23/14 at 7:46 pm
I recently got in touch with a guy who heads a project in St. Amant. I'm donating a few Alligator snapping turtles to him. If you do a search you should be able to find him. Last name is Naquin.
I've seen some of you have run across them and didn't care to kill/clean them. If you come across any in the future, this guy has permits and a nice place for them. He collects eggs/hatchlings and raises them for a period of time then releases them into the wild.
I've often read posts in which others have a certain respect for them, as do I so wanted to make others aware that there is such a project.
Now I'm certainly not against eating them either. In fact I cleaned a 42 lber this morning. Let's just say I catch more than I eat.
I've seen some of you have run across them and didn't care to kill/clean them. If you come across any in the future, this guy has permits and a nice place for them. He collects eggs/hatchlings and raises them for a period of time then releases them into the wild.
I've often read posts in which others have a certain respect for them, as do I so wanted to make others aware that there is such a project.
Now I'm certainly not against eating them either. In fact I cleaned a 42 lber this morning. Let's just say I catch more than I eat.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 8:09 pm to Geauxtiga
Will pass the word, my friend
Posted on 4/23/14 at 9:09 pm to bootlegger
Thanks and I have his number if needed.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 9:09 pm to Geauxtiga
How much would he charge for a "high fence" hunt?
Ha ha I think that is a great idea! (Not the hunt, the captive rearing). Is this a gubment program or is this a private deal?
Ha ha I think that is a great idea! (Not the hunt, the captive rearing). Is this a gubment program or is this a private deal?
Posted on 4/23/14 at 9:13 pm to hardhead
It's through LDWF. I was asking him if it would be legal for me to bring 3/have 3 in my possession. I knew it was one per day/ per BOAT, not person so I was worried.
He has a permit to haul many.
He has a permit to haul many.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 9:23 pm to Geauxtiga
If I knew where any were I would bring them to him.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 9:26 pm to Geauxtiga
I caught one Saturday on a Brush Hog. Damndest thing I ever saw. I couldn't get the hook out his mouth and he was being uncooperative so he's still swimming around that pond with a 3/0 Eagle Claw bass hook hanging from his mouth.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 9:32 pm to Slickback
I imagine that could be a feat to try and remove the hook. Was it an alligator snapper or common? The common ones are more apt to "attack" a bait; whereas, the alligator snappers lie in wait. They have that worm-like action built in.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 9:34 pm to Geauxtiga
Common. He was a mad sonofabitch when I got him in the boat.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 7:51 am to Slickback
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Common. He was a mad sonofabitch when I got him in the boat.
I've said it before, but a 10lb common snapping turtle could kill a 50lb pit bull in the right confined space. Those frickers are evil sometimes.
I posted once in a thread, and EJW had it as his sig quote at one point, that a full grown common snapping turtle can jump and bite a grown man in the penis if they are standing next to each other. This is still true. One night years ago I thought it was a good idea to run some jugs for turtles in a gravel pit, from a pirogue, drunk, and with just a dog for help. GoPro footage of that night would have been entertaining. Imagine 2 big mean softshell turtles, a common snapper (caught on a limb-line), and a blue heeler in a 12' pirogue in the dark.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 8:57 am to tenfoe
OK that would be hilarious to watch! Did you ever see that Jackass movie where the guy lets a common snapper bite him on the arse? He was howling like a demon and that thing was not letting go. When they finally got it off it looked like his arse had been caught in some big arse pliers.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 9:05 am to tenfoe
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I've said it before, but a 10lb common snapping turtle could kill a 50lb pit bull in the right confined space. Those frickers are evil sometimes.
I posted once in a thread, and EJW had it as his sig quote at one point, that a full grown common snapping turtle can jump and bite a grown man in the penis if they are standing next to each other. This is still true. One night years ago I thought it was a good idea to run some jugs for turtles in a gravel pit, from a pirogue, drunk, and with just a dog for help. GoPro footage of that night would have been entertaining. Imagine 2 big mean softshell turtles, a common snapper (caught on a limb-line), and a blue heeler in a 12' pirogue in the dark.
I'd have had to be REALLY drunk to put that lot of critters in my pirogue. They are amazingly bad varmints.
When I was a kid, my friend's dad worked at this machine shop/drafting company in Destrehan, and it had this really crappy pond right by it. Any of y'all from the area may know this pond. It has a bunch of crap dumped in it, it's pretty much square in shape, some railroad tracks ran by it, and there's nothing in it but trash fish/gar, turtles, snakes, etc.
Anyway, we'd go to work with my buddy's dad sometimes to fish (and look at Playboys and Penthouses in the crew trailer next door to his dad's shop office). We were like maybe 10/11 years old.
So, we're fishing in that pond one day, and an elderly black gentlemen was fishing there too. He had no pole, rod and real, or anything like that. Just trot line string, big hooks, with the biggest salt water corks I'd ever seen, baited with either some chicken parts or cut bait or something. He'd throw his line out, and tie it off to a stick he'd poked into the ground. Much like Curtis Lowe, he'd then proceed to drink wine. That was his job. Wine drinker, and fisherman.
Every time his cork moved, we were like "get him man". He'd just say "aaaaaahhh, boys, dats lil ones".
Finally, his cork disappeared for about 30 seconds. And thus began an epic struggle. An old black guy vs. what to date is the largest alligator snapping "tunnel" (as he referred to the beast) that I've ever seen. It lasted 30 minutes, and ultimately, the trashy pond delivered the nasty beast, and the beast was none too happy. I didn't realize that removing the beast from the pond was only the beginning of the battle.
Eventually, the snuff snorting, wine drinking black man (I think it was snuff) won the day. He was able to get a stick, or screwdriver, or something positioned inside the beast's shell, such that the beast's neck was exposed. And it was a surprisingly LONG neck. We were as amazed by this battle as we were by the beautiful blond bush of Miss November, 1976. In those days, snapping turtles were as big as Volkswagons, and women's vaginal areas were surrounded by hair. We considered blond hair the rarest and most desirable.
He celebrated his victory by decapitating the "tunnel" with a cane knife. Throwing his headless trophy over his shoulder, and carrying it by its tail, he limped down the tracks, with his combo iceless ice chest/tackle box - a 5 gallon paint bucket in tow.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 9:20 am to TigerTreyjpg
quote:
When I was a kid, my friend's dad worked at this machine shop/drafting company in Destrehan, and it had this really crappy pond right by it. Any of y'all from the area may know this pond. It has a bunch of crap dumped in it, it's pretty much square in shape, some railroad tracks ran by it, and there's nothing in it but trash fish/gar, turtles, snakes, etc.
Anyway, we'd go to work with my buddy's dad sometimes to fish (and look at Playboys and Penthouses in the crew trailer next door to his dad's shop office). We were like maybe 10/11 years old.
So, we're fishing in that pond one day, and an elderly black gentlemen was fishing there too. He had no pole, rod and real, or anything like that. Just trot line string, big hooks, with the biggest salt water corks I'd ever seen, baited with either some chicken parts or cut bait or something. He'd throw his line out, and tie it off to a stick he'd poked into the ground. Much like Curtis Lowe, he'd then proceed to drink wine. That was his job. Wine drinker, and fisherman.
Every time his cork moved, we were like "get him man". He'd just say "aaaaaahhh, boys, dats lil ones".
Finally, his cork disappeared for about 30 seconds. And thus began an epic struggle. An old black guy vs. what to date is the largest alligator snapping "tunnel" (as he referred to the beast) that I've ever seen. It lasted 30 minutes, and ultimately, the trashy pond delivered the nasty beast, and the beast was none too happy. I didn't realize that removing the beast from the pond was only the beginning of the battle.
Eventually, the snuff snorting, wine drinking black man (I think it was snuff) won the day. He was able to get a stick, or screwdriver, or something positioned inside the beast's shell, such that the beast's neck was exposed. And it was a surprisingly LONG neck. We were as amazed by this battle as we were by the beautiful blond bush of Miss November, 1976. In those days, snapping turtles were as big as Volkswagons, and women's vaginal areas were surrounded by hair. We considered blond hair the rarest and most desirable.
He celebrated his victory by decapitating the "tunnel" with a cane knife. Throwing his headless trophy over his shoulder, and carrying it by its tail, he limped down the tracks, with his combo iceless ice chest/tackle box - a 5 gallon paint bucket in tow.
If I get some time tonight after Tball games and before I get too too drunk I'm going to write a country song to tell this story. Thanks for sharing.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 10:09 am to TigerTreyjpg
quote:
I'd have had to be REALLY drunk to put that lot of critters in my pirogue. They are amazingly bad varmints.
When I was a kid, my friend's dad worked at this machine shop/drafting company in Destrehan, and it had this really crappy pond right by it. Any of y'all from the area may know this pond. It has a bunch of crap dumped in it, it's pretty much square in shape, some railroad tracks ran by it, and there's nothing in it but trash fish/gar, turtles, snakes, etc.
Anyway, we'd go to work with my buddy's dad sometimes to fish (and look at Playboys and Penthouses in the crew trailer next door to his dad's shop office). We were like maybe 10/11 years old.
So, we're fishing in that pond one day, and an elderly black gentlemen was fishing there too. He had no pole, rod and real, or anything like that. Just trot line string, big hooks, with the biggest salt water corks I'd ever seen, baited with either some chicken parts or cut bait or something. He'd throw his line out, and tie it off to a stick he'd poked into the ground. Much like Curtis Lowe, he'd then proceed to drink wine. That was his job. Wine drinker, and fisherman.
Every time his cork moved, we were like "get him man". He'd just say "aaaaaahhh, boys, dats lil ones".
Finally, his cork disappeared for about 30 seconds. And thus began an epic struggle. An old black guy vs. what to date is the largest alligator snapping "tunnel" (as he referred to the beast) that I've ever seen. It lasted 30 minutes, and ultimately, the trashy pond delivered the nasty beast, and the beast was none too happy. I didn't realize that removing the beast from the pond was only the beginning of the battle.
Eventually, the snuff snorting, wine drinking black man (I think it was snuff) won the day. He was able to get a stick, or screwdriver, or something positioned inside the beast's shell, such that the beast's neck was exposed. And it was a surprisingly LONG neck. We were as amazed by this battle as we were by the beautiful blond bush of Miss November, 1976. In those days, snapping turtles were as big as Volkswagons, and women's vaginal areas were surrounded by hair. We considered blond hair the rarest and most desirable.
He celebrated his victory by decapitating the "tunnel" with a cane knife. Throwing his headless trophy over his shoulder, and carrying it by its tail, he limped down the tracks, with his combo iceless ice chest/tackle box - a 5 gallon paint bucket in tow.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 1:18 pm to Captain Rumbeard
quote:Definitely an alligator. The "beak" is another tell-tale.
Found it. They say it's an alligator snapper.
That bit HAD to put a puncture wound in his arse. The other day I wanted to take a picture of the 2 common and 3 alligator snapping turtles together so I put them on the ground. A smaller alligator snapper bit the 40 lber I had and put a nice size hole in the skin of its back leg. I was astounded by the damage that little bastard had inflicted when I butchered that 40 lber the next day (yesterday).
Posted on 4/24/14 at 1:42 pm to TigerTreyjpg
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We were as amazed by this battle as we were by the beautiful blond bush of Miss November, 1976. In those days, snapping turtles were as big as Volkswagons, and women's vaginal areas were surrounded by hair. We considered blond hair the rarest and most desirable.
Nice.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 2:06 pm to Geauxtiga
My dad ran over one at night when I was a kid. The thing was huge. Close to the size of a #3 tub. Never saw the bastard in the dark and hit it doing about 40 on a gravel road. Damned near flipped that old S10 hunting truck. Don't think the snapper ever stopped creeping across the road.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 2:22 pm to tenfoe
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before I get too too drunk I'm going to write a country song to tell this story.
Please, please, please share the song when it's complete.
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