I.jU Fislnay in Noiili Carolina. 



tliat will call attt'iitioii to its locality by a more 

 agreeable inetliod — sight. Turtle will take any 

 sort of fish, flesh, fowl, rodent or reptile, alive 

 or dead; and he is particularly fond of chicken 

 offal and can scent it upstream hundreds of 

 yards. 



y.0 special size of hooks nor quality of line is 

 necessary, because a turtle mil hardly ever cut 

 the line, and quickly learns that the hook is un- 

 manageable. 



If one is going to use dead bait I recommend 

 a treble hook, concealing all the points in the 

 bait, as a sure catch. 



Various kinds of traps are employed for 

 catching turtles. Boxes and barrels arranged 

 with trap-doors or sides and baited will do the 

 work well. Turtle will often enter common fish 

 traps in pursuit of fish. Another trap is made 

 of a piece of board a foot or more long by eight 

 inches wide, with a 'No. 1 tooth-jawed steel trap 

 fixed on the underside. The traj) is baited, a 

 string is attached and it is anchored wherever 

 desired. 



The turtle is not amusiue,- nor iuterestin"- like 



