Guys I am about to share something to you that sounds crazy, I have a Carolina Diamondback Terrapin(turtle), Sometimes he is so active and eating food (live and packed/dry), But some days he is just In the corner and sleeping. I notice the days that he is eating and aggressive , I have bass bites as well and the days he is not eating, I also have no bass bites. Call me crazy or tell me it is coincidence , But is more like a pattern. Like last week till today he is really at corner and not in eating mood and I did catch zilch. If he is in eating mood he will eat up to 20 baitfish like creampuffs  , But if not in mood, He will live with them for days and not paying attention to them.

I was thinking that both of them cold blooded species and it can be related. Anyways if you read something about this or have info or idea please share. If not, Just disregard this post.

8 hours ago, ATA said:

Guys I am about to share something to you that sounds crazy, I have a Carolina Diamondback Terrapin(turtle), Sometimes he is so active and eating food (live and packed/dry), But some days he is just In the corner and sleeping. I notice the days that he is eating and aggressive , I have bass bites as well and the days he is not eating, I also have no bass bites. Call me crazy or tell me it is coincidence , But is more like a pattern. Like last week till today he is really at corner and not in eating mood and I did catch zilch. If he is in eating mood he will eat up to 20 baitfish like creampuffs  , But if not in mood, He will live with them for days and not paying attention to them.

I was thinking that both of them cold blooded species and it can be related. Anyways if you read something about this or have info or idea please share. If not, Just disregard this post.

Interesting.

If this is such a sure thing, I guess I would only feed this amphibian

on the days I planned to fish. 

I might never struggle to get bites the rest on my born days !

#starvetheterrapin

Fish Hard

A-Jay

 

 

 

1 hour ago, ATA said:

Guys I am about to share something to you that sounds crazy, I have a Carolina Diamondback Terrapin(turtle), Sometimes he is so active and eating food (live and packed/dry), But some days he is just In the corner and sleeping. I notice the days that he is eating and aggressive , I have bass bites as well and the days he is not eating, I also have no bass bites. Call me crazy or tell me it is coincidence , But is more like a pattern. Like last week till today he is really at corner and not in eating mood and I did catch zilch. If he is in eating mood he will eat up to 20 baitfish like creampuffs  , But if not in mood, He will live with them for days and not paying attention to them.

I was thinking that both of them cold blooded species and it can be related. Anyways if you read something about this or have info or idea please share. If not, Just disregard this post.

 

 

That's odd, I caught a 16" snapping turtle yesterday on a wacky. Fishing wasn't to hot though.

My Dad would always comment on whether the cows were feeding or laying down as we drove to the lake.   

It is possible that the weather can affect your turtles appetite just like it affects fishes appetite.

I'm gonna go with "crazy"!  

7 minutes ago, soflabasser said:

It is possible that the weather can affect your turtles appetite just like it affects fishes appetite.

Thats what I think, since both of them cold blooded in some point the reaction to weather or moon phases will be the same.

Just now, ATA said:

Thats what I think, since both of them cold blooded in some point the reaction to weather or moon phases will be the same.

It is possible. Would like to see a photo of your diamondback terrapin, they are one of the most beautiful turtle species in the USA.

You'd watch a fishing trip end real quick if the cows weren't feeding when grandpa would take us out fishing, "If the cattle ain't feeding neither are the fish boy" I'm not sure if there was a whole lot in it, but he had a lot more years on the water than I do, and I don't remember many trips where we didn't come back with a stringer full of trout, so maybe he was on to something ?

Cows eat 9-14 meals a day and consume between 50-100+ pounds of food. Not all cows eat at the same time  Fishing is ripe with superstition for sure!

 

Mooo!

 

Edit:

One night my brother said "Every time I look at my phone it says 9:11, it's so weird!"

 

Me: "What time is it now?"

 

Looks at phone: "10:13"

24 minutes ago, soflabasser said:

It is possible. Would like to see a photo of your diamondback terrapin, they are one of the most beautiful turtle species in the USA.

 

Cool. Gal at work has tortoises. They're like dinosaurs! Very cool.

ill take better picture in morning light and share

One of her smaller tortoises only had one back leg. She showed me a video a few years ago of them trying to mate and he'd get behind her and fall over every time. He was very frustrated and would scream "EEEEE!"

 

Who wouldn't? Poor little dude.

 

After a few YEARS he finally figured it out and now she has a baby!

 

TMI?  

Gotta get me a turtle! ?? ? or three.

How much $ you want for that turtle?!?!? ?

I watch for wildlife on the way to the lake. Days when I see lots of wildlife are often productive. Cows are not wildlife in any sense of the word and in no way indicative to how the bite will be. 

Thank you @ATA for posting pictures of your diamondback terrapin.

There may be days (or periods within a day) when fish and game are more active for whatever reason, but I haven't necessarily found that I am successful (or more successful) during those times. And, for the record I have probably fished at good sixty times over the past year, and never in that time have I been skunked (pretty sure this means that this shoe will drop my very next time on the water, LOL). Once I only caught one, and maybe a time or two that I only caught three. Most trips are two or three hours to half a day. I have come to attribute the success that I do have to consistent time on the water and never letting my patterns get too far away from me.

 

I do look at the tables, but haven't been able to link them to my success rate. Sometimes I have great days when I shouldn't be able to buy a bite, and not so great days where they were scheduled to be lining up to jump in the boat. There are also so many other variables that it's difficult for me to use that information to increase success.

 

Sometimes I struggle more during the seasonal transitions until I get the pattern established. Most of the times that I am not as successful as others, I have come to the conclusion that it's most likely me that is the problem if I'm not catching fish. And it's up to me to fix it.

21 hours ago, Bubba 460 said:

 

 

That's odd, I caught a 16" snapping turtle yesterday on a wacky. Fishing wasn't to hot though.

I hooked one Saturday morning as well, but on a jig. When it dug in I thought I had the monster of the lake. It came to the surface in some brush and opened its mouth. It didn't even have a hook in it. It was just hanging on.