I has some fried years ago and it was great. As best I remember they only got meat off the legs neck and a couple of straps of meat on the shell.

Definately too much work to mess with a small one (not enough meat). I've had 'em out of lakes and stock tanks. Ones from lakes are much better. Muddy tanks tend to lend that flavor to the meat.

Caught this one the other day. The smell was horrific! Couldnt imagine eating something that smelled like that.

I think someone ate the big Soft Shell Turtle from Chandlers Landing on Ray Hubbard. I had been seeing that same turtle for almost 10 years and last year it seemed to have dissapeared. This thing had to be every bit of 50+ pounds and had a head the size of a beer can. So sad!

Hit one like that one in the pic sitting on a log in the Rio Grande, just west of Rio Grande City with a 125 grain hollow point from a 4" .357 mag. He exploded in a 360 degree circle.

They're good for checking the zero on scopes on a .17 HMR or .22 mag. also. At least that's what I heard.

You can't keep soft shells caught in public water. You can keep up to 6 a day caught on private water. You can get a permit to keep more than 6 if you plan on catching them commercially. You can not keep alligator snapping turtles under any circumstance, so you have to know how to tell the difference between them and common snappers.

(Ray Sasser had an article on this in the Dallas Moring News yesterday... so I'm an instant expert)

JKC, that sounds like a killer recipe!

it is, a guy I used to work for in the timber business used to cook it up for us.

Like I said I will eat some softshell turtle, but there is no one serving those in my neck of the woods. (katy,tx)

ahh well that sucks...

Never had turtle before..

me either. Does it taste like chicken?

Tastes like turtle LOL