How old Is this
 

Saw this old guy on my way back from Sabine Lake today . How old you think this guy is ?

I looked at that first picture and thought that was a turd! I was expecting a person, not a turtle!

I know they can get up to like 70 years old....that is a biggun for sure could be pretty old. Cook some rice :D

thats too funny

Ground check.......

If you was dat close you shoulda picked her out the water and put it in da pot

oooo,booooy, that was gooodin rite dair!

They can be as old as 120+ years old. I would not be putting it in the boat as the Feds would treat you worst than a serial killer.

NM thought it was a sea turtle.

i know he would not make another day if spoted by most

Good eating

big enogh to be a seaturle, but one big ole' allliiigggiiigata snappa! dat boy's got jaws that'll scare a pitbull.

thank you for not killing it!! I'm truly an animal lover especially a reptile lover! Don't really care for snakes though so go have fun, but leave the not venomous ones alone or at least king snakes. lol

probably 60 years or so

The best eating there is right there.

Wonder if the WLF will ever do anything to protect them. I used to see them all the time and hardly see many anymore. We used to eat a bunch of them. When I was rice farming with a friend, we judged or day in the field by how many turtles we caught.

True,
Never see them anymore.

I just cooked turtle for the first time at the Villa Platte Smoked Meats Festival, learned how to cook up the T.S.P. from a real local. They had pics of the turtle we were cooking for the crowd and it looked like this one. They said it was probably over 100 years old. Man it was good, and the guy I was cooking with won 3 medals.

It was some good stuff. We shoulda make a plaque for that old rascal we cooked, he made so many people happy, and the money went to the Vietnam Vet local chapter.

Those big snappers grow at about one pound a year.

That thing looks to be 80 to 100 pounds......maybe more.

I saw a really good video of a guy finding and digging up A. snappers in a dry marsh, in Louisiana so he could relocate them to where there was more water. He was afraid they would die if they were left there and it did not rain to fill up the marsh.

I think you can still catch one........is that per year????

thats what i heard also, a pound per year