tied up a bunch of foam spiders and took my son to a county rec pond. caught a bucketload of small bream and one very agitated bog turtle. i have to say that i have chased bears off of my trash that were less aggressive than this little turtle
he would not let me get the fly out of his mouth and when i had him behind the neck he must have thought he was first cousin to an alligator snapper. finally just popped the tippet and let him go. can honestly say it's a first for me in 25 years of long rodding