With my luck, I go noodling for catfish and would wind up getting bit by a turtle. If I went after turtles, I would end up grabbing a twelve foot alligator. I think I will keep all of my appendages intact for as long as I can.
That ol' boy is from KY but I'm not crazy enough to go purposely looking for snapping turtles.
Knock on wood, we've only had one run in with a turtle and it was a small slider. My buddy saw him sitting next to the hole (a hole in a riprap bank that we never check because of snakes and turtles) before he made the reach and the little nipper popped him on the pinky finger. :lol: