Get a grip folks. Turtles will eat your stringer fish, go after your bait , and generally cause problems. Put in a 2X4 with hooks turned up so that they crawl up on the board and get hooked up. Finish them off with a 22 or whatever. Other than that I use a floating cage with a top that let's them fall in, and then finish them off. We who want the fish do not want the turtles and they are kinda like Coyotes who are expendable. Might as well go ahead and add the cormorants in with the same post. Waste them.