90+LB SNAPPER CAUGHT……HAND FISHERMAN BEWARE!

  • team catfish
    Grove, Oklahoma
    Posts: 27
    May 8, 2009 at 1:43 pm #1221438

    MASSIVE 90+ POUND SNAPPER CAUGHT ON 8/0 DOUBLE ACTION HOOK
    Big Sam White sent us this picture of a massive snapping turtle he caught this weekend……

    Sam estimated the turtle weighed over 90 lbs. He added that the 8/0 DOUBLE ACTION hook had penetrated the jaw of this beast. WOW!

    The fellas didn’t fool around with the angry turtle….They set him free with a souvineer……a 8/0 DOUBLE ACTION hook to remember them by! No one wanted to get their fingers by it’s mouth!!!! I don’t blame the fellas…….That thing could take off a your hand!

    dan-tessmann
    Kieler, Wis
    Posts: 664
    May 8, 2009 at 2:16 pm #775100

    Man that thing is huge, I wouldn’t get within 2 feet of that thing. I’m already missing 1 finger, I need all the rest . A couple years ago I had a big snapper hit a spinnerbait. He got a souvanier also. Dan

    sipple31
    West-Central WI
    Posts: 29
    May 8, 2009 at 2:33 pm #775103

    wow thats a monster! Reminds me of one of those poor giant tortoises the little kids ride at the zoo. I hope a zookeeper never makes the mistake of putting one of these guys out there!!

    benjisdad
    Newton, Iowa
    Posts: 229
    May 8, 2009 at 2:38 pm #775106

    That thing is HUGE!!… .. Any idea how old that old snapper might be???

    Ralph Wiggum
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 11702
    May 8, 2009 at 2:50 pm #775110

    That thing is just wicked! Soup, anyone??? Mmmmmmmm

    blue-fleck
    Dresbach, MN
    Posts: 7872
    May 8, 2009 at 4:39 pm #775148

    I have to admit, when I first saw the title of that post, I was a bit skeptical. Then when I opened it and saw the pics and where it was caught, I have no doubts the size of that thing. That Turtle is a dandy.

    Ben Garver
    Hickman, Nebraska
    Posts: 3149
    May 8, 2009 at 4:48 pm #775150

    What a giant!! Several years ago I was fishing a farm pond and seen a huge one over the side of the boat. I drug a new terminator titanium spinnerbait in front of it’s face and it hit. It snapped the hook in half. So much for my $7 spinnerbait.

    shawnil
    Posts: 467
    May 8, 2009 at 4:54 pm #775151

    So what bait did it come on Jeff? Last snapper I took was on dip bait, of all things. Another souvenier was given out…

    Shawn

    illiniwalli
    WC Illinois
    Posts: 878
    May 8, 2009 at 7:45 pm #775178

    i’ve seen some big snappers, but that is far and away the biggest one i’ve ever seen.
    my girlfriend hooked a huge one on dip bait a few years back and as i was trying to figure out how to, or if i wanted to, get him in the boat, it cut the line while thrashing one of its front legs.

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    May 9, 2009 at 2:29 pm #775270

    That dude has a head on it like a tree stump

    I’m in on the soup Ralph

    rushing
    Mn
    Posts: 67
    May 9, 2009 at 6:11 pm #775310

    What an evil lookin beast!

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25025
    May 11, 2009 at 1:51 am #775535

    No sense risking a finger for that little fella. I am pretty sure that isn’t going to hurt that beast. That would have been quite the site seeing that thing come to the surface.

    I am curious. Did you post this in the sturgeon/cat thread knowing only we would appreciate such a catch? Or is it because you fear the reaction your user name might cause in different section.

    mossydan
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Posts: 7727
    May 11, 2009 at 3:05 am #775573

    He is a big one, the biggest I’ve ever seen. He’d make alot of meals. Im sitting here thinking how I’d get him in the boat and keep him there,,,safely. I’ll bet hes got a 5″ to 6″ thick neck alone.

    herb
    6ft under
    Posts: 3242
    May 11, 2009 at 2:13 pm #775618

    It’s an alligator snapper and guessing in the range of 85 to 100 years old. Hard to tell since they can feed all year down south.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59944
    May 11, 2009 at 4:16 pm #775669

    So your saying they are tough even in soup Herb?

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
    Posts: 12318
    May 11, 2009 at 6:30 pm #775710

    Quote:

    I have to admit, when I first saw the title of that post, I was a bit skeptical. Then when I opened it and saw the pics and where it was caught, I have no doubts the size of that thing. That Turtle is a dandy.

    Too bad you were not around with a filet knife! They would be “Eatin’ good in the neighborhood!”

    blue-fleck
    Dresbach, MN
    Posts: 7872
    May 11, 2009 at 11:34 pm #775790

    Turtles like that, I make sure there’s room for them at the dinner table…..Right next to the taters and beans. Even that big, they’ll fit in the roaster.

    Yummy!!!

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25025
    May 12, 2009 at 1:46 am #775821

    Mmmmmm, 80 years worth of toxins built up in that one.

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
    Posts: 12318
    May 12, 2009 at 2:23 am #775848

    Quote:

    Mmmmmm, 80 years worth of toxins built up in that one.

    Only in the shell.
    They can’t get to the meat with all that armor!

    That’s what I keep telling myself.

    audemp
    Wi
    Posts: 721
    May 13, 2009 at 2:56 am #776262

    That sucker looks like the kraken!

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