Other than a turtle trap, a simple catfish basket also works well. (If you can check it ever couple of days.) Just put it out, bait it with something stinky and the catfish and turtles will go in to eat. The turtles will drown. The catfish can be returned to the water. I caught 27 in a basket in two days last year.

Also, you can bait out hooks with minnows on limbs where they crawl up to sun. Put the hook and minnow out of the water so fish won't get it, but on the log. Nail the other end of the line to the log. (I have never tried this, heard about it.)

Nick Smith