First time I've ever caught one of these guys on a fly.
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/l...g/turtle-1.jpg
One has to use care in retrieving the fly.
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First time I've ever caught one of these guys on a fly.
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/l...g/turtle-1.jpg
One has to use care in retrieving the fly.
Yeah it happens and don't use glass beaded flies. They will bite the beads off the hook.:sad:
Just need a big Bullfrog to complete your amphibian fishing merit badge.
Heard a very loud gulp last summer and yup, this BIG bullfrog had a hold of my fly...put up quite a tussle too...needless to say, he won and got to keep the fly.
Funny you mentioned bullfrogs I was at a pond on Sunday and landed the biggest frog I have ever seen. It hit a black wooly bugger about six feet off shore.
Been waiting for that to happen to me. There are tons of turtles in the ponds/lakes in which I fish. Had one go after a popper once and I about laughed myself to death.
I believe the line will be cut. The fly doesn't mean that much to me.
Yup, caught one of those myself. It's amazing how fast they can move when chasing a fly. I could barely strip fast enough to stay ahead of one one day. The one I caught snuck up from below and grabbed it.
TxEngr
Ummmm, technically turtles are reptiles, not amphibians. Worse I ever saw my 6th grade teacher (a sweet, little, old lady) flustered was when I mentioned that and she asked me to prove the differences. When I got to the point that amphibians reproduce by external fertilization and reptiles use internal fertilization, she cut my explanation short. At the lunch table that day, I had a lot of questions from the other students, mainly about birds and bees, not turtles.
Ed, who was mainly a non-fiction sort of child
Ahh, caught practicing a little poetic license.
When i was a boy I was fishing in the Mississippi river near Winona Minn. I had a chicken heart on a line (I was going for catfish) and I was messing with the rod with the bait suspended just below the surface of the water, when all of a sudden this huge and horrible looking head popped up from the depths and grabbed the bait - nearly scarred me to death. It was a good sized snapping turtle. I cut the line as there was no way i was about to put my fingers anywhere near that turtles mouth.
I've had them grab at flies occasionally, but i've never yet had one hang on like that. Nice catch!