Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations alligator snapping turtle

I fish pits and mines all the time and see snappers.. Are you sure you don't have them already. They are pretty smart and very skiddish, these won't be like pets and youll be petting them lol they actually have very good vision and can see from quite a ways away. Snapping turtles are not bank sitters like your painted turtles and stinkpots, they come up for air and head back to the bottom (except to breed and lay eggs). They have a little thing where there tounge is that mimics a small worm and they wiggle it with their mouth open just waiting for a fish to swim in so they can eat it, it mist work because they can get 50+ years old regularly. They like shallows because their kinda lazy and can just pop their head out of the water, but I see more of them popping their head out in deep water and another thing I've never caught one catfishing in shallow water so I don't think depth matters.. Allagatoe snappers are rare here but Americans snappers are like huge pond rats around here. I wouldn't pay for them build a cage throw some meat in it and drop in a pond come back in a week my buddy catches 100's of them a year this way.