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WGuidry
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Joined: Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:25 am
Posts: 87
Location: In the South La
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 Catching Soft Shells? Do any of you guys on here catch soft shell turtles. If so how do you catch them. I heard they are very hard to catch but I want to try and catch some. I have been seeing some huge ones around where i live. Any info would be great. Thanks
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wacknstack
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Joined: Mon Nov 26, 2012 9:51 pm
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Location: Lake Charles, La
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? If their on land shoot em with a .22 or high powered pellet gun and go pick em up.
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cupped up
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Joined: Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:25 pm
Posts: 4205
Location: St. Amant, LA
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Re: Catching Soft Shells?
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krogers
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Joined: Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:24 am
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Location: Bristol, FL
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? ive had good luck using salt pork on a short trot line. also caught a few on crawfish. there pretty good eating too
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cupped up
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Location: St. Amant, LA
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Re: Catching Soft Shells?
Soft shells are nice, but I like catching these
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da go get'er
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Location: Prairieville
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? Alligator snappers are fun but you can only have one per boat per day ( legally anyways). Soft shell are the best eating turtle and you can have as many as you want.
I fish with nets for soft shells but jugs work too and are cheaper.
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cupped up
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Location: St. Amant, LA
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? And soft shells are a hell of a lot easier to clean!
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quackconsumer
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Re: Catching Soft Shells?
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pearl river outlaw
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Location: Louisville Ms
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? We shoot a good many bowfishing.
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WGuidry
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Joined: Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:25 am
Posts: 87
Location: In the South La
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? Thanks guys. I will be trying something soon. Kind of hard right now with my work schedule. Will post pics if we catch any. The ones i have been seeing I's guessing go about 20-30 lbs they look like little trampolens and small tires.
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cupped up
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Location: St. Amant, LA
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Re: Catching Soft Shells?
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WGuidry
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Joined: Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:25 am
Posts: 87
Location: In the South La
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? Yea that's what my cousin was telling me hopefully i can get after them either this wknd r next.
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cupped up
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Location: St. Amant, LA
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? That one was 52 lbs. I'll see if I can find a picture of some real big ones we've caught before. 115 lbs, 80 lbs, and 72 lbs all in one day about 2 years ago. Of course we had to let 2 of them go... 
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Gameover
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Location: Prarieville,LA
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Re: Catching Soft Shells?
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forever draggin
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Joined: Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:10 pm
Posts: 6664
Location: in the marsh with a boat load full of dead hookers
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? Bacon
Best turtle bait n the world
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forever draggin
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Location: in the marsh with a boat load full of dead hookers
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CAJUN OUTLAW
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Joined: Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:37 pm
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? wguidry.............if in da south aint too far from galliano,i can hook u up with a trap that catches them good. will let u borrow it for a butterbowl full of sauce picante.
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dguidry
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Joined: Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:20 pm
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Location: Cecilia, LA
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Re: Catching Soft Shells?
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cupped up
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Location: St. Amant, LA
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Re: Catching Soft Shells?
115 lbs
115 and 80
72
Kinda hard to judge the size unless you look at the brick next to the 115
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dfou
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Location: Pville, La
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Z71v2.0
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Location: The Promised Land of TX
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? You guys will eat anything. Remind me to not eat y'all's gumbo
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cupped up
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Location: St. Amant, LA
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? No dfou, that's like their death row cell. They were awaiting execution and packaging.
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dfou
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Location: Pville, La
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cupped up
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Silvercreek
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Location: Flinthills of Eastern Kansas
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? Does feeding them hickory give them a better flavor? 
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netman
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Location: Chandler,Indiana
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Re: Catching Soft Shells? Soft shells can be caught the best using a turtle net baited with fresh catfish. When the river drops real hard a lot of times my hoop nest will be in about four foot deep water. I will have a net full of catfish with a load of soft shells that could not leave. Thanks for the pics of the big alligator snappers. Love them big ol guys/gals.
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