FVR
09-01-2007, 12:04 AM
I was down in S.GA about two months back and this gent was unloading these big ol chicken wire boxes.
I asked him if they were snapper traps and he said they were. He made them and sold them at Larry's 4 Way.
Well, I had a few minutes and I examined these things, man were they basic. Just a big box, with one end half finished. Then they knotted rope like a fish net, into the shape of a funnel and stuck it inside the box. Tieing the end of the net to the outside of the box.
They put all kinds of dead critters in the box and tie it to the bottom.
The turtle senses the meat, they swim in through the net, drop through the end of it, eat and then can't get out.
I am going to try this next year, want to get a small jonboat and hit the Etowah.
I just really enjoy snapper soup. Grew up eating it in the NJ Pine Barrens.
Just something to think about.
I asked him if they were snapper traps and he said they were. He made them and sold them at Larry's 4 Way.
Well, I had a few minutes and I examined these things, man were they basic. Just a big box, with one end half finished. Then they knotted rope like a fish net, into the shape of a funnel and stuck it inside the box. Tieing the end of the net to the outside of the box.
They put all kinds of dead critters in the box and tie it to the bottom.
The turtle senses the meat, they swim in through the net, drop through the end of it, eat and then can't get out.
I am going to try this next year, want to get a small jonboat and hit the Etowah.
I just really enjoy snapper soup. Grew up eating it in the NJ Pine Barrens.
Just something to think about.