Cooking Turtle

[nobber]

I used to hand fish when I was down home in Missouri some folks called it noodling, best way to catch the really big catfish. just find a nice hole in the bank were they bed down and reach in and tickle under their chin and they open up thinkin lunch has arrived . Then just grab the lower jaw and pull em out. some guys would reach down their throat and grab guts but I was always big enough to handle them by the jaw plus the blue catfish will spin on ya when ya grab their guts leavin ya with some nasty road rash on your arm. If ya find a nice size brush pile it might take a coupls guys to plug all the holes up but me and a couple buddies at work used to get all the fish for their dads Legion fish fry this way usually 4 or 500 pounds. would take a couple weeks to get that much but it goes well with beer drinkin so no problem.


Eric Davis

[Adam Wetherington]

I used to run a trot line for softshells when I was a kid. I'd make some money by selling some to the locals across the tracks but I'd always keep some for us too. We'd just fry it up like we did everything else we caught, gators, frogs, fish... You get a lot of meat off a big softshell but be sure to clean all that yellow fatty stuff off! I cleaned them basically the way Longhunter described it. You can do it without cutting the shell too, but it's a pain.

Adam

[snake eyes]

BPS,
      I always like to see folks post on old post! It rejuvinates
the issue and the forum.
     Anyone do crock pot turtle with white wine or sherry and
veggies and herbs and seasonings. Bit of tomoto juice.Serve over
rice.My choice wild rice or brown rice! Don't take a lot to turn this into a great soup.
John