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Post by wherebob on Apr 20, 2007 18:57:41 GMT -5
Well my girlfriend and I were fishing for catfish in this back area of a lake on our 12ft jon boat. It was dark and lots of trees and brush all around us. Suddenly my pole bent way over and I'm thinking did I hook a tank or what? After about 15 mins, trying to keep it from tangling in all of the downed trees and such I started to think I have caught the biggest catfish in the lake. I can't seem to gain any line on this thing and my drag was getting hot. Then it took a run at the boat. I was reeling as fast as I could and then it went under the boat. I said to my girlfriend get the flash light, get the flash light. Just as she turned it on and faced it off the side this huge snapping turtle head breaches the side of the boat and hissed so hard that it was spraying water out of its mouth and nose. Now I have caught crocodiles by hand before but this thing freaked me out. The girlfriend was yelling cut the line cut the line but I wanted to see the whole thing so I grabbed the sides of the shell as she held the line and I pulled him aboard. Ok heres the funny part......... once aboard this huge snapper chased us around the small boat trying to bite us, and they have a hell of a bite I'll tell ya. So imagine a snapper crawling around a 12ft flat bottom jon boat in the dark with 2 people one flashlight trying to avoid getting bit. Seems like a 1/2 hour but I finally caught him again and threw him overboard. Wasn't funny at the time but we laughed our A$$es off all the way home.
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Post by sandyharley on Apr 20, 2007 19:03:20 GMT -5
How big was that critter Bob?
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Post by wherebob on Apr 21, 2007 12:28:25 GMT -5
Didn't get a weight on it but the shell was around 2ft wide I'd guess
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Post by sandyharley on Apr 21, 2007 14:15:04 GMT -5
we grow some big snapping turtles around here. when they get big like that I give them plenty of room because they tend to git nasty
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Post by mdram on Apr 23, 2007 8:48:17 GMT -5
man and you coulda had turtle soup!
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Brazin'
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Post by Brazin' on Apr 23, 2007 9:26:11 GMT -5
I would NOT want him in the boat with me! your not kiddin one heck of a bite! LOL.
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Post by wherebob on Apr 23, 2007 18:39:19 GMT -5
man and you coulda had turtle soup! Tried that once Roger, once! Have you ever tried to clean turtle? What a stinky mess and really not much useable meat. What meat I did get was mushy. I ended up throwing the poor guy in the trash.
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Post by cnot on Apr 27, 2007 19:24:52 GMT -5
"I think we need a bigger boat" Freshwater style!!! Bob is the Captain Quint of NE!!!
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Post by wherebob on Apr 27, 2007 19:28:00 GMT -5
"I think we need a bigger boat" Freshwater style!!! Bob is the Captain Quint of NE!!! Where's my spear gun? Hook me up a kegger Brian.
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Post by sandyharley on Apr 27, 2007 20:31:52 GMT -5
OMG Brian, What have to started now !!!!!!! I can see the black eye patch and, the peg leg in the future LOL
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Post by cnot on Apr 27, 2007 21:05:00 GMT -5
Bob, I'll hook you up, I'm tapping it now... LOL How many does it take to slow one o them Jaws down??? If it takes 5 like it did for Quint Hooper and Brody, we might need a designated helmsman!!
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Post by sandyharley on Apr 27, 2007 21:15:31 GMT -5
I will be dooing the driving on that trip Brian.If you Bob have to tap all five kegs me and, B girl are going to have to man the bildge pumps to keep the bat floating.That is if we can talk her into going after she figures out what you two are up to LOL
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Post by cnot on Apr 27, 2007 21:28:39 GMT -5
I suspect that she will catch on fairly quickly.... Remember she fished with me in the Keys... LOL
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Brazin'
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Post by Brazin' on Apr 28, 2007 10:55:52 GMT -5
huh, wha?
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Post by sandyharley on Apr 28, 2007 14:16:09 GMT -5
Did we wake you up from your knap B-girl? ?
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Post by cnot on Apr 28, 2007 20:19:44 GMT -5
Maybe she started emptying some of those kes already... A good crew always anticipates the captain's needs...LOL
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Post by wherebob on Apr 28, 2007 23:38:04 GMT -5
B girl are going to have to man the bildge pumps to keep the bat floating.That is if we can talk her into going after she figures out what you two are up to LOL We will just have to refrain from singing the song about dancing with bow legged women.
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Post by cnot on Apr 29, 2007 10:04:00 GMT -5
LOL Best we stick to "Show Me The Way To Go Home"... Though we might opt to leave out the part where we compare wounds... LOL
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Post by sandyharley on Apr 29, 2007 13:04:55 GMT -5
When do you think we are going to have to sing??? Draining kegs, lashing them together,spearing sharks and,manning bilge pumps. If we do have time to sing ,I don't think singing about bow legged women would be the rite thing to do LOL
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Post by cnot on Apr 29, 2007 20:22:00 GMT -5
Singing may be unavoidable if Bob needs five empty kegs to keep his snapper from sounding... LOL
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