Thanks to Brian McGowan for sending along these photos of a huge snapping turtle he encountered at the Blue Bell Country Club on Saturday morning.
"We have a few on the course," Brian writes. "This is one of the bigger guys. He [Editor's note: She?] might look thrilled at this point, but he was happy to get back into his pond."
According to the PA Fish & Boat Commission's Pennsylvania Angler & Boater magazine, snapping turtles are the largest turtles in Pennsylvania. They typically have shells between 10 and 20 inches long and weigh 15 to 45 pounds, though one snapping turtle recorded in Wayne County in 2006 weighed a whopping 60 pounds.
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In Pennsylvania, snapping turtles are legal to capture for the purposes of consumption between July 1 and October 31. A Google search turns up any number of snapping turtle recipes, none of which you're likely to encounter while watching The Chew. One that has the virtue of being easy to follow comes from Montgomery County (Montgomery County, Kentucky, that is). Watch the video here.
