For you nature geeks!

[Matt]

With all this talk about rare animals in the lake. I thought I would share my find from this last weekend. I caught a Florida soft shelled turtle on Saturday. I spoke with elachee nature center and they said there have been some seen in the lake but its super rare. For the people that have never seen these turtles they are pretty ugly. I had to fight pretty hard to get him to the boat.



He was pretty pissed off. I hooked his foot. Mouth was wide open in this one.

[ADAM]

i didnt know daniel went swimming in the lake

[Krawler00]

Man, he got uglier!

[Jimmy]

I've seen one before, they are about ugly as sin. Do they bite like a snapper? I've don't know much about them. Supposedly there are snappers in the pond by my parents' house with 1 ft. diameter shells, I definitly don't want to find either of them, haha.

[Will]

We've caught alligator snappers in my pond in Lagrange. They're shells are about 2 feet. They get a lot bigger than that too. There's a cool story about one, but I'll save that for swimming at Doug's cabin  ;D

[PARK]

i didnt know daniel went swimming in the lake

deformed turttle?

[TJ-xtreme]

that thing is ugly, what lake is that? I caught a garr in alatoona two years ago, talk about ugly, and dangerous too, we cut it up and threw it back in for the catfish...

[Matt]

That was out of lanier. I was fishing for catfish at the time I caught it.