How to catch snapping turtles in a pond.

I make lines with steel leaders then bait with chicken livers and throw it about 2-3ft off the bank. Use nylon string to tie off leader to something sturdy.

Ps. The chicken livers is only if your pond doesn't have catfish.

If your pond has alot of catfish, you're probably better off trapping them

hoop net with milk jug tied hanging from top with holes punched in it and full of any kind of meat or fish scraps.

If I lived close I would do it for the turtles.

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How to catch snapping turtles in a pond.

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Get an otter.

It will even leave all the shells in a big pile for your to throw away.

I use a 1/0 worm hook baited with plain old breakfast bacon. I set the baited hook right at the edge of the water where minnows, small bream, etc. can't get to it. I attach the baited hook to a 3 foot length of very small diameter aluminum wire attached to a piece of rebar stuck in the ground. You can actually see the bacon grease disperse immediately when you put the baited hook in the water. Snappers can't resist that breakfast bacon.

We used to catch them on hot dog pieces. Throw out next to em under a cork and reel em in and shoot em when they bite. Would catch some big ones all the time.