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I caught one in a 330 conni one time just after ice out. I do not know how it got in as far as it did because ti was a little wider than the trap. We ended up putting it in a cooler over night to get it dormant enough to get it out of the trap the next morning.
I have moved a ton of them off the highways over the years. You just have to get a good hold of the tail and keep it away from your vitals.
Back in the middle 50s we used to fish off everyones docks. Many times we would have a nice stringer of pan fish only to pull it up to find a stringer of fish heads. There would be a snapper the size of a wash tub laying there eating out catch.
Many time when boating down the lake wqe would stear around what we thought to be a 6 inch or better dead head that had floated out from the old booming grounds at the head of the lake. Only to have it go down when we got close. Snapper again.
It was good that my dad sold tackle in his gas station as more than once a snapper would take my bait and strip the black dacron line off my oold casting reel getting away.
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