baited with squab I would think. Ingrid

(adavisus) wrote:
No, it's not easy winkling a snapping turtle out of a decent sized
pond. They are well able to hear you, before you get to the pond to
see them, a snapping turtle will dawdle gently into deep water and
invisible depths to listen to the sound of your footsteps come, and
go...

On a string of a dozen ponds here I was taking all sorts of damage to
waterlilies in particular, never a sight of the guilty party...

It took a year to figure out a solution, a turtle trap

A roll of chicken wire and considerable snipping a joining, voila...
turtles peck and tug a bait, a cage door closes behind them...

Within a few weeks I fished out five snapping turtles with 6" to 12"
shell lengths, a nine inch yellow belly turtle and several mud turtles
(returned to the ponds as innocent bystanders)



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