How are snapping turtles good for bass, if you say they never eat any smaller bass or baitfish? The only way I could see snapping turtles being good for bass is if they ate some of the smaller bass, therefore reducing the overall population and making the remaining bass larger. However,you say they don't do that though... :-?
Troutfisher, this is exactly what I asked, but yet even though I ask for an explaination, they don't give one...I asked for one earlier...
I am not trying to be a jerk or create any problems, but I would really like to hear some insight on other's opinions rather than tell me that it's bad to kill them because they rot and it's a waste and it's bad for the environment, etc. and then leave it at that.
And besides there are things we do in every day life that is bad for the environment. When I kill a turtle and throw it into the woods, it will create a food item for any scavangers. If I kill the turtle and leave him in the pond, all he will do is contaminate the pond. Yet if I don't kill him, all he will do is reproduce, spread like rabbits and take over, therefore smothering out all the species of fish (if they don't eat them which I KNOW they do!) and becoming a nuisance.
Troutfisher, you and me see eye to eye on this. 8-)
God bless
How about 90% of their diet is dead things and even plants, the less dead things the less chance for diseases which would kill WAY more fish than the turtle would ever be able to.