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

Theres no way that thing would have passed me without ending up in the boat.

Well I thought about it ,but it was too big and I was alone. I wasnt too sure he was gonna be happy about going for a boat ride and there wasnt enough room in the boat for him and me .

We still have a lot of them at our camp in Miss, Miss river floods our lake every year & brings them in, River is full of em! We caught one several years ago 107lbs, snapped a boat paddle handle like a toothpick.

Thats awesome. I wish I could come across one that big.

This is the first one of this size I have ever seen in the wild . I'm just glad I got pics of it at least.

You are allowed to harvest one per year as a resident of LA, and if I am correct, think non-residents are not allowed to harvest them. That one would have been on the cleaning table at home for sure. They have lots of them around, you just need to know where to look for them.

You'd be correct sir...........Same way in Miss, Tried telling a hardhead that I was working with in Pascagoula, He caught a butt load & finally got caught:work: fine wasn't pretty:shaking:

yall can have my turtle . . . . i dont eat dat shat

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its got to be cooked right^^^I bet my grandma could whip up some and put a lil crawfish tails in in and you would not even notice it...

That would be a disaster since I'm allergic to shellfish ....lmao

I thnk its one per day.

well I guess it would be then!! anywhooo...it def. has to be cooked right.

To me, Turtle meat is the best there is. I will pass on a steak any day of the week for a good turtle gravy or stew. Cant be beat in my book.