My bro and I used to run turtle lines down in Ohio. Our volunteer fire dept. did a turtle soup stag every year, and there was a restaurant in North Lima that specialized in turtle soup. We had a good little racket going selling turtles. They paid us .25 cents a pound on the shell, or .50 cents a pound if we cleaned 'em. We would catch between 20 and 30 every year. It was good money for a couple kids that loved to be outside getting dirty and having fun. 'Never got any real monsters, but we had a couple that pushed 20 lbs.
