Can anyone guess what this is??? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

RIROCKHOUND · 03-30-2005, 10:38 AM

Is it a giant snapping turtle dead? I've seen em 4ft across...

cheferson · 03-30-2005, 10:40 AM

ANd we have a winner . TT you have won a 1lb piece of leatherback turtle!!!!!!!!

ThrowingTimber · 03-30-2005, 10:55 AM

Can I get some wasabi to go with that

MakoMike · 03-30-2005, 01:32 PM

Chef,
Are you sure about that I.D.? I didn't think we had leatherbacks in this part of the world?

cheferson · 03-30-2005, 03:32 PM

100% sure Mike, talked to a biologist at the fish and wildlife. She knew exactly the one i found. If you look at the pix closely , you can see the pattern of a leatherback, its shell was very soft, tried to flip it over

Raven · 03-30-2005, 05:26 PM

drank ale...... then he'd be alive....

Saltheart · 03-30-2005, 06:46 PM

Yep , dead Leatherback . We see them all the time along the RI south shore. One year there were about 20 of them dead at the same time scattered in the stretch from the Charlestown Breachway to Ninigret Park entrance.