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.