"Henry Hefner" wrote in message
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I was looking through a catalog at plastic bait molds, and saw a mold
for a 3" turtle. Maybe that was intended as a sal****er bait, I've never
seen a turtle shaped bait before. I often fish a pond that has many
turtles, but never considered them as possible food for bass. Anybody
know for sure?

There's at least one biologist who says that bass eat small turtles.

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