I've been told that soft shell turtles taste better (not sure if that's a specific kind, or a family of turtles). But... I wouldn't know. The only chicken I enjoy eating is the kind that has feathers.
I'll bite back
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I can tell you for a lead ipe fact that soft shell blue pincher crab is better than any crab I ever ate. We seemd to only find about 2 or 3 a year when we were trot lining and running crab pots in Corpus Christi but we'd jump for joy when we did. The first time I ever heard of one was when my dad and I were gigging flounder one night and he said "sone that's soft shell grab it!" I thought he was kidding as I'd never heard of one. So he reaches down and grabs this big crab and hands it to me. I can't describe what that was like taking that crab in hand with only a frw seconds warning since I had been bitten by crabs a few times and it hurts lke HELL when they bite - you can lose a finger with the really big ones. The softies feel like . . . wet soft leather. .
You could have kept that to yourself...
I here soft shell turtles are edible . but I don't think they will let you wack the head of one of those sea turtles
ya might go to jail for that stunt
ya might go to jail for that stunt
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Any kind is fine even the red ear sliders
You can pick up a snapper by the tail and he can't get you with his beak, but don't try that with a soft shell. That long neck will come out and bite you in a heart beat.
The snappers do have backstraps...nice little flat piece of meat that are trapped in the inside top of the shell by rows of bone. Like they are in a cage. You have to cut through the bones to get the strips of meat. Gary
The snappers do have backstraps...nice little flat piece of meat that are trapped in the inside top of the shell by rows of bone. Like they are in a cage. You have to cut through the bones to get the strips of meat. Gary