07-23-2005, 04:01 AM
as a youth we did the same thing. a gallon clorox juge for a bobber and enuff cord to reach the bottom of the deapest hole in the lake.
michigan has sinced changed the regs for catching turtles and we can no longer pratice this method because it cant distinguish larg turtles from small ones.
we can still hook and line them if we are using rod and real just no more trout line type setups....
so now I am looking at various types of traps. so I can build them my self. Cant afford to pay 50-250 bucks for traps....
I searched the net last night for turtle traps and found half dozen. since my building skills are not what they used to be I came up with an adeptation of two different traps that I can use in different situations.
there was a bottom trap and a floating trap that was close enuff that I could combine the two. I will post a pic later. but for now I will share the pics of what is available on the net, that I could find....
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michigan has sinced changed the regs for catching turtles and we can no longer pratice this method because it cant distinguish larg turtles from small ones.
we can still hook and line them if we are using rod and real just no more trout line type setups....
so now I am looking at various types of traps. so I can build them my self. Cant afford to pay 50-250 bucks for traps....
I searched the net last night for turtle traps and found half dozen. since my building skills are not what they used to be I came up with an adeptation of two different traps that I can use in different situations.
there was a bottom trap and a floating trap that was close enuff that I could combine the two. I will post a pic later. but for now I will share the pics of what is available on the net, that I could find....
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