Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Wildlife Management Turtle Populations

Dave:

A client has a 1/10th acre forage pond where there are FHM and Papershells in it. Last year there were lots of sliders (turtles) in it. The papershell population was virtually nil. This year we've worked on keeping the turtles out and when a minnow trap is put in deeper water, there will be 10 Papershells in it from a few hour soak.

I think keeping the turtles down helped the Papershell population. It didn't seem to make a difference with the FHM population.