How to remove a fishing hook from a turtle?
Posted August 15th, 2009 by admin 6 Comments »
Brittany asked:
Yesterday, my dad caught a turtle while fishing. We were trolling, so he was using a treble hook. It was about a 15, almost 20 pound turtle and he had hooked it in the foot (poor thing!). I didn’t watch how my father took the hook out because I knew it was painful. Because there are a LOT of turtles in that lake, how can we, if this happens again, remove a hook from a turtle with the least amount of stress and pain possible for the poor creature? Anything I could do to calm it down?
Yesterday, my dad caught a turtle while fishing. We were trolling, so he was using a treble hook. It was about a 15, almost 20 pound turtle and he had hooked it in the foot (poor thing!). I didn’t watch how my father took the hook out because I knew it was painful. Because there are a LOT of turtles in that lake, how can we, if this happens again, remove a hook from a turtle with the least amount of stress and pain possible for the poor creature? Anything I could do to calm it down?
