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  • hidden deep in the wilds Roann Indiana a giant snapping turtle lurks in the murky

  • waters of Lost Lake

  • the folklore is the Indians they would send hunters down

  • and they wouldn't come back

  • Bill Haywood has constructed a giant safe trap in an attempt to capture

  • and document this prehistoric sized dragon. I'm guessing he's

  • 100 pounds

  • really? you think there's genuinely a hundred pound turtle in here? I think there is yeah...

  • we've already proven that it works confirming that Lost Lake is home

  • to some very big turtles. Woah thats a pretty big turtle

  • but will it be able to hold a new world record?

  • thats a huge turtle

  • day two the trap has been sitting for over 12 hours at this point, Bill how you

  • feelin

  • there's gonna be some turtles in it. All night all I could think about was

  • is there a huge hundred-pound turtle that has gone through the darkness

  • into this trap after our bait bucket honestly a 100lb turtle would be

  • unreal bigger than any common snapping turtle that's ever been caught in history

  • definitely feels like this ancient lake is the place that something like that

  • could happen

  • maybe we'll get extra lucky this morning and land a world record

  • what was going through your mind when you saw

  • a destroyed trap that no turtle had ever gotten out of before

  • yet this turtle rips a hole in it that's you know twenty inches wide

  • oh when we looked into the water I seen the bait bucket was gone I said well

  • I told my son Keenan I said there's a big one in there the bait buckets tore off

  • the strap and uh I got ahold of the trap

  • started pulling it in, it felt awful light

  • and we pulled it up out of this Blackwater and seen a big hole in the back of the cage

  • he was gone, it was really really disappointing

  • wow so only here in Lost Lake have you seen a turtle

  • destroy a trap like? That's right. okay

  • well he's out there and maybe we have him in the monster trap that you built

  • I hope so. Alright well lets go out there and check, let's do this

  • okay this is the moment of truth I just kayaked out there and that trap

  • it's definitely moved. yesterday when we left the trap there was just the corner

  • sticking up

  • now the whole one side is bowed up in the air all these years of

  • anticipation and this might be it

  • look at that you see those bubbles coming up?

  • there is definitely something in this trap. oh yeah. there's something in there

  • there's definitely something in here. That could be the 100lb turtle!

  • Is it heavy? Oh there's something big in there's something huge in there

  • it's huge, somethings in the bottom of this thing

  • jeez I've never had this problem before. Holy cow it's full of turtles!

  • Look at all those turtles! Oh my gosh it's like a crab pot from deadliest catch!

  • wow how many turtles are in there?

  • can't tell, look at how big that one is!

  • huge turtle

  • wow. holy cow I think

  • we just caught every turtle in Lost Lake . Bill you need me to come up in the boat?

  • I think so there's no way. There's three hundred pounds of turtle in here

  • oh my gosh

  • holy cow have you ever caught this many turtles before? no

  • let's try to slide it up. go for it guys

  • oh my gosh

  • not sure we're going to be able to get this in here

  • you guys got it! we're gonna flip the boat

  • let's go

  • 1-2-3 go!

  • oh my gosh have you ever caught that many turtles

  • before in one trap? No I haven't. That turtle right there is HUGE

  • you've got nine turtles. 9 turtles! Wow! I've never seen that many snapping turtles in one place

  • before. I have't either

  • I think we caught every turtle in Los Lake holy cow

  • well this is insane okay...um. How you wanna do this?

  • I don't know what we should do? I don't even know what to do right now

  • we definitely wanna look at these huge ones. maybe like get to the dock and like push this

  • it on its side?

  • onto the dock. yeah and then that way we can...

  • I can climb in there with the? let's just get over to the dock because

  • I don't think we can do much out here. Bait really works good huh?

  • yep old-time family secret. It's not a world record but it may be the record

  • for the most turtles ever caught at once

  • gonna be fun getting them out of there. Lot of snappers in there

  • with nine dragons in the giant trap

  • we carefully made our way back across the choppy waters toward the dock

  • now it was time to get up close

  • and personal with our epic catch. this is insane!

  • Holy cow Bill look at that!

  • look at how many turtles are in there!

  • nice job man. This is a dream come true right here I'm gonna get into a cage

  • full of giant snapping turtles. Oh boy, they're already coming after me

  • oh he got your leg! yeah he did

  • that's me in a container full of snapping turtles

  • ok

  • yes holy cow that's a lot of turtles

  • Well you've got a man and nine turtles

  • this one's really close...really close

  • in a turtle trap with a buncha snapping turtles

  • This is a little nuts...Bill we may have caught

  • a record number of turtles in one trap is kinda what I'm thinkin

  • got lot of turtles, lots of turtles

  • we're going away each and every turtle to see how much weight

  • we have in this trap. How many turtles are staring down at your leg right now?

  • 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

  • 89 turtles 9 turtles all wanting to bite me

  • right now. Bill I've gotta hand you this turtle. I can't get ahold of him right now.

  • hold on.....AHHHHH!!!

  • that hurt

  • thats what you get for climbing in a cage with a bunch of turtles

  • a boy...ouch he got me good

  • woo! the dragon's lair

  • Dragon's Lair ...only got bit once too on my leg

  • ahhh!!

  • not too bad

  • alright guys you ready we're gonna weigh nine snapping turtles

  • smallest to largest here we go! thats a little tiny peeper!

  • probably the smallest turtle I've ever weighed before

  • turtle number 1

  • 12 pounds

  • thats a good start for a small little female

  • next one up turtle number 2

  • getting these turtles out of here is not exactly easy

  • thats was close, close to the eyeball

  • jeez you're feisty little bugger aren't ya?

  • alright in the bag

  • he is at 16 pounds

  • Turtle number 3

  • 19 pounds... nice. Turtle number four

  • going up 19 as well

  • respectable respectable another nineteen pounder

  • turtle number five this one's got some weight to him

  • 24 pounds 24 pounds....

  • we should

  • we should film this, I got bit

  • lets just film this weight with him and be like I just got bit

  • this is what happens when you handle snapping turtles. This turtle just bit the

  • top of my thumb off

  • big time

  • I tried to....

  • I tried to just get some of the mud off of him and he just definitely

  • chomped right through the top my finger deep I mean he

  • yeah he bit the top of my thumb off. yeah we're gonna have to clean that up...lets weigh him real quick

  • you guys wanna know what it feels like to get the top of your thumb bit off by a snapping turtle?

  • it hurts really bad it's probably the worst bite ever taken

  • actually its not probably the worst bite I've ever taken, it's without question the worst bite I have ever

  • taken

  • alright here ready? going up...turtle number 6

  • 26 pounds a bloody

  • 26 pounds. Guys this is why

  • you don't go out and catch snapping turtles

  • this is how dangerous this is I took my eye off that turtle for just a second

  • as I was dipping him the water he turned his head and he literally bit the top of my

  • thumb off

  • and it hurts pretty darn bad right now. That was seriously traumatic

  • and my thumb is pretty sore...um, this is the turtle that bit me

  • I'm just going to give him what he deserves

  • immediate freedom this guy's going right back into the water

  • he is a very very aggressive turtle as they all are

  • but uh I'm not take my chances anymore

  • with this beast, alright he is heading back

  • into the wild ready got the shot yep

  • alright buddy

  • look at that he's still coming back after me

  • feels good to let the turtle go

  • that bit the top of your thumb off...got two more in there

  • here we go alright turtle

  • number 7

  • 30 pounds

  • biggest one yet

  • turtle number eight going up

  • ready

  • 32

  • 32 yep. Alright this is the biggest one that we've caught

  • this turtles easily over 40 pounds . Drumroll guys...

  • Turtle number nine

  • going up here we go ready?

  • poked a leg out! wow look at that

  • 49 pounds alright Bill so this is the biggest Turtle we caught out of Lost

  • Lake

  • Now you don't think this is the guy who broke your trap? No I for sure

  • I'm certain. I'd say the guy we're after is

  • probably twice this size. Wow you can imagine a snapping turtle

  • twice this size? I mean this turtle dwarfs

  • all those other turtles we just pulled out of the lake. I just can't believe we caught nine turtles in that trap

  • that way amazing

  • it really is man your trap definitely gets the job done

  • these turtles Lost Lake definitely will take your finger

  • if you're not careful here we go we're going to add up the nine turnovers

  • we've got twelve 16 19

  • 19 24 26

  • 30 32 and 49

  • for a total weight of 227 lbs

  • Bill can you believe that?

  • 200 and 8 pounds worth of turtles

  • in this trap. I have to question whether or not that is a world

  • record?

  • for the number of turtles and weight in one trap. have to look into that something that

  • we never anticipated

  • I never heard of anybody building trap this big before

  • I think we caught every turtle other than the world record turtle well you know what

  • that means guys

  • we're just gonna have to come back to Lost Lake for season 2 I think the best

  • thing to do now

  • is to let all the little turtles go. The one that bit my thumb off we already let him go

  • one other climbed out his boat off my kayak and got away

  • It's a risky game

  • of hot potatoes right there!

  • here we go, the two largest dragons back in Lost Lake

  • see later buddy

  • ah man what beast 49 pounds

  • so incredible to get this close to a prehistoric dragon like this

  • on lost lake

  • man

  • high-fives that was awesome! well 227 pounds worth snapping turtles

  • in your giant dragon trap the world record

  • the 100 Turtle is still out there somewhere

  • the common snapping turtle is one of the most unique and elusive animals in the

  • world

  • ancient in every regard however

  • if we wanted to get up close with the largest freshwater turtle in North

  • America

  • we would need to travel south into the back waters

  • of Louisiana

  • home to a different breed of dragon the 1 and only

  • alligator snapping turtle!

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