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Aug 21, 2020 13:26:17 GMT -6
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Post by mnfish on Aug 21, 2020 13:26:17 GMT -6
Did it have no pants on and swing a little dick?!? If so, yep, it was me Only 1. No more room for more. Hahahahha!! And even that one barley stayed in place
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Aug 21, 2020 13:37:23 GMT -6
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Post by mnfish on Aug 21, 2020 13:37:23 GMT -6
When I get a little more time, I will post up the idea or my line of thinking. But for now, imagine a large rectangular wire box. Starting from the shore and going into 3-4' of water. Once a frog is put into the cage it can't get out. As the cold approaches frogs migrate and burrow into the pond bottom. And as everyone knows being cold blooded, they go into stasis. In the cage maybe 300-500 frogs. They are burrowed only so far as I have wire mess on the bottom of the cage. Drill two holes in the ice. One on each side of the cage. Pull two doors so the cats can "swim thru". Live winter frog feeder. Could be total BS....but maybe not
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Post by Catscratch on Aug 21, 2020 13:54:47 GMT -6
Hmmm. I see what you are saying. I think it's a very good idea. I also see tons of ways it might not work. "Might not work" is the worst reason ever to not try something... Keep me posted!
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Post by Bob on Aug 21, 2020 14:01:34 GMT -6
Hmmm. I see what you are saying. I think it's a very good idea. I also see tons of ways it might not work. "Might not work" is the worst reason ever to not try something... Keep me posted! Amen brother! -BUS
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Post by Catscratch on Aug 21, 2020 16:52:45 GMT -6
You have a secret way of catching 500 frogs without spending all your summer doing it... and keeping them alive until the weather is right for them to burrow down?
What about salamanders? You guys have those up there that can be used like this?
What about frozen shad from a bucket? We have great fishing in the late winter on the windy side of the lake after a shad kill. They congregate and hoover them up.
Just thinking out loud with these ideas...
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Post by mnfish on Sept 1, 2020 21:36:13 GMT -6
Little surf and turf action. Fall is upon us!!!!
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Post by mnfish on Sept 1, 2020 21:43:12 GMT -6
Noodling is FUN, and fried turtle tastes great. i am gathering too many snappers in my ponds. Big bastards that I need to remove. Are they hard to clean? How do u cook them? Is there a time of year better for taste?
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 1, 2020 22:08:56 GMT -6
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 1, 2020 22:11:55 GMT -6
Never done it. but thanks to google!!!
We had a restaurant in Urbank MN that had deep fried snapping turtle on the menu...... Covid killed em. Never reopened after the shutdown. Only place I have ever seen turtle on the menu. And it was very good!!!!
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Sept 1, 2020 22:12:37 GMT -6
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Post by mnfish on Sept 1, 2020 22:12:37 GMT -6
Thanks Mark!
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 1, 2020 22:30:21 GMT -6
When cooked its a very dark meat. So like the dark meat on a turkey but even darker. VERY rich in flavor. Give me the dark meat on a turkey any day of the week! I brought home an order to my daughter and her friends at the cabin a few years ago.
Chicken wings!! The 4 of them ran in, started gobbling them down. I could tell they knew it was "different"
Hahahahahahah... its snapping turtle. They all dropped them. They liked it a lot till they knew what they were eating. I got to finish it off. Good for me I guess.
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 2, 2020 2:39:31 GMT -6
My wife’s Grandmother used to make it and it was great. I remember different types of meat in them, from different parts of the body. Rumor was 7 kinds of meat. She browned it with seasoning and baked it from what I remember.
Grandma was the school cook in the town north of Jeff. She is now 99 and isolation in a nursing home has been hard on her.
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Post by Reagan on Sept 2, 2020 4:37:42 GMT -6
We cleaned a lot of turtles when I was a kid. I would grab their top jaw with channel locks. Dad would hold the tail in his left hand and hatchet the head off with his right. We would boil a big lot of water and dunk them for a shock. If you don’t shock them, they will move around a lot when you clean them.
There are not easy to clean but I would do the work. They are good eats.
I remember pulling out their heart and sitting it on the cleaning board. It would beat for a long time. If it stopped, you could poke it and set it back into motion.
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Post by Reagan on Sept 2, 2020 4:39:12 GMT -6
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Post by Catscratch on Sept 2, 2020 5:57:33 GMT -6
Nailed it! Doesn't hurt to bleed them by hanging them upside down and cutting the head off for an hour or so. We cleaned one once that had been de-headed half the day, it's heart was still beating when got to it. Amazing! Role in flour and deep pan fry like you would slow cooked chicken.
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