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Bigcast88

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Colorado River soft shell turtle
« on: Nov 14, 2014, 10:38 AM »
hooked this guy deep took me almost 15 minutes to dig the hook out and he was snapping and hissing through all of it.

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Re: Colorado River soft shell turtle
« Reply #1 on: Nov 14, 2014, 10:24 PM »
Wow neat catch. 8)
That guy is a good size and I bet it put up a good fight. ;D

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Re: Colorado River soft shell turtle
« Reply #2 on: Nov 15, 2014, 04:46 PM »
soup?

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Re: Colorado River soft shell turtle
« Reply #3 on: Nov 15, 2014, 07:52 PM »
Hey.. Whats a Colorado turtle doing in Texas?      ;D
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Re: Colorado River soft shell turtle
« Reply #4 on: Nov 17, 2014, 02:26 PM »
That is a pretty cool catch for sure!  I don't envy you taking the hook out. 

I had to do that with a snapping turtle one year that slammed a Zara Spook while bass fishing.  I had to remove the hooks from it tongue and it's front foot (from trying to de-hook itself apparently).  That turtle was nasty.  We found a 2X4 for it to bite on while we removed the hook from it's foot.

I caught a large slider a couple years ago on a plastic worm and felt like I was reeling in a rock only to find that surprise on the end of my line.  It was fair hooked too but not in a good mood.

Hey.. Whats a Colorado turtle doing in Texas?      ;D

He was on a rafting trip!

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Re: Colorado River soft shell turtle
« Reply #5 on: Dec 08, 2014, 11:41 AM »
yeah turtles are nuts this one in the photo when it broke the surface started doing a crazy tornado spin fast enough to create its own little whirlpool it was pretty wild  :)

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Re: Colorado River soft shell turtle
« Reply #6 on: Dec 08, 2014, 11:47 AM »
Well its basicly a texas spotted soft shell i just caught it in the stretch of the colorado river that runs through Columbus,Tx.

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Re: Colorado River soft shell turtle
« Reply #7 on: Feb 12, 2015, 09:55 AM »
nice turtle

 



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