The alligator snapping turtle in this clip has everything he needs to go fishing. The bait is a part of his body, and his lightning-quick ‘snap’ is too fast for most prey to escape from. All he has to ...

After my column about catching snapping turtles appeared in newspapers around the country, I was inundated with information, on which I was so sorely lacking. I learned how to clean turtles, in many ...

"The Turtleman," best known for his time on the Animal Planet reality show "Call of the Wild," is in town for a special event up in Townsend. The Kentucky native known for catching snapping turtles is ...

Green tufts of algae collect in the beards of Michael and Zac Linne as the brothers, with their bellies in the muddy water, slowly crawl along a shallow drainage ditch that cuts through a Dubois ...

Joe Clemens of Irwin has a dangerous hands-on hobby. Clemens is a fourth-generation turtle noodler, a pursuit where one catches snapping turtles with their bare hands from underwater holes in the ...