re: How to catch snapping turtles in a pond.

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.