Ken: or "Hey! Hold my turtle!"
I know from experience, large soft shell turtles strike faster than snapping turtles, and their necks are longer.....
It's also a LOT harder to hold them as they don't have a convenient long tail for a handle. You gotta grab a leg and they can pull said leg back into the shell with surprising strength.
THAT gets you to hold onto them with more force, and you bring them closer to your body to do so. Next you know they are trying to take a nice sized chunk out of your thigh, along with a nice chunk from your jeans too.....
Scott -- somehow I've never run across those critters. In my case, I guess that is good!
We are at our place in NC. We have a lot of sliders in the pond -- and our friend Al E. Gator. We don't provoke him.
A snapper in a Pond Boss gathering outhouse can also have some effects when someone may be in gastric distress.
