Quote Originally Posted by stripernut View Post
i guess i forgot step one, when i catch turtles i keep them in a plastic 50 gallon drum filled half way with water and i add clean water evry couple of days for a couple of weeks, it is amazing how much moss/mud/scum is purged from the turtle doing this, the meat is much cleanrer and less muddy pond tasting.
this is for hard shell snapping turtles,never ate a soft shell so i dont really know anything about them.
i usually dont have a butchering session until i get 10 turtles, usualy takes about 30-45 minutes to do all 10 turtles using the above method, its easy just messy.
This is the key imo to better tasting turtle. At my friends we have a big metal tub that we use just for this purpose and we change the water every day.

You clean yours the same way we do, but we are definitely not as fast as you are. It takes me 30 minutes or more to do one turtle.