Turtles Love Watermelon!

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This is a video from one of my favorite YouTube channels, The Fish Whisperer.   The channel owner is a young man who lives down near Houston in what appears to be a nice housing development and just behind his house is a pond that has bass, catfish and turtles and he takes videos of him feeding them. 

As you probably noticed, the turtles would take a bite or two and would then slide back into the water.  That is because they do not have salivary glands and must take in water when they swallow their food.  I just love the shot @ 3:32 as if the turtle is saying "Ready?  Is the camera rolling?"

I'm not as fond of his actual fishing videos and those of him cast netting for shad (extremely difficult to master) to feed the fish in his pond, but I do enjoy the feeding videos and esp. the ones featuring the turtles or the old blind catfish he feeds by hand.  He also has a few videos of his baby gar fish he is raising in a large aquarium tank, although one recently died of unknown causes.   He plans to put the survivor into a larger outdoor pond, then release him when he's large enough to fend for himself.

I'd say there are a few "trophy sized" bass in the pond, probably ten lbs. or even more.  He puts the shad on what he calls his "feeding rod", rigged up with a hook that he's cut off the barb, leaving just enough of the curve of the shank to hold the bait and not harm the fish.  This is another favorite video he's done:

Bass Are Insanely Fast!  What amazes me is how he can cast out the bait and even before it hits the water, you can see a torpedo-like wake on the surface as the fish swims to it.  I just had never realized they could see what was ABOVE the surface of the water.

What also amazes me is how much money someone can make off of something like this.  I've gone online and tried to calculate just how much he does make off his channel, but he also has a few sponsors so it has to be more than what is based solely upon views.  I would very conservatively guess he's making at least a grand/week and probably more.  I do know that he's upgraded his video equipment a few times (even putting a waterproof GoPro on a turtle) and drives a nice big truck (although his folks might have bought that for him, along with his pricey fishing gear) and thought nothing of feeding an entire sack full of crawfish in one video.  He paid at least $35 ea. for those two baby gar.

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Avatar sully16 -
#1
that was cool.
Avatar mikeintexas -
#2
It WAS cool, huh Sully? It's not my favorite YT channel but up there in the Top Five....and the thing about that is I don't really care all that much for fishing.

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