[fireant911]

My wife and I spend lots of time in our creek during the summer. Last summer I noticed a huge snapping turtle ‘fishing’ at the bottom of the creek – this was an amazing sight to see. The water was extremely clear so we had a very good vantage point to witness this activity. We were both spellbound for 45 minutes as we watched this turtle attempt to catch his/her dinner. This variety of snapping turtle clearly had the worm-like appendage on its lower jaw used to lure small fish in 'for the kill'. Not once did it come up for air during the time we were watching.

As we were coming back from the creek this past fall, we saw a recently hatched snapping turtle on our path. I picked this angry little creature up and redirected him/her to a safer and less treacherous route.