A Father’s Day weekend fishing trip became even more memorable for one Texas man and his family after he reeled in his biggest catch yet.
Justin Broomhall, of Longview, packed up his fishing gear and took his father and his son to Lake Cherokee for a celebratory fishing outing.
“When we were out there fishing, the catfish just, like, vanished,” Broomhall said. “When it goes quiet like that and you go away, there’s normally a predator around.” “The line went tight and when I set the hook, I realized it wasn’t a catfish because it didn’t move,” Broomhall said. “When I started reeling in on it, come to find out it was a big turtle. We were fighting for a good 15-20 minutes and by the time we got him up to the shore, he broke the line.”Broomhall estimated that the massive alligator snapping turtle weighed around 170 pounds and was likely over 100 years old. Just to pull it to shore required strength from Broomhall and his father.
Alligator snapping turtles are one of two types of snapping turtles found in Texas and are an endangered species, the“When we released him, he actually, when he started swimming off, he came up out of the water, like kind of like saying ‘goodbye’ and disappeared,” Broomhall said. “[He] looked back at us and he just sunk back to the bottom and will never be seen again.”
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