WTG Keith, A couple weeks ago I saw a gator chomping on about a 5lb turtle trying to crack it's shell for dinner. crazy ...nice mess of fillets

Remains of some sort of lure? Rapala still makes some of their baits out of balsa.

Some snail trivia.
Snails are a common trout food. Any fish that eats crustaceans will eat snails especially bluegills and yellow perch.
When I reclaimed my pond there were no fish or minnows left in it but the areas with springs and the section that had Ball Pond Brook running through it were loaded with an aquatic snail plus some other invertebrates. I flooded the pond in October 1991 and immediately stocked 50 small rainbows and 50 small brookies. I had no idea what they would have to eat but during the ice fishing season I caught a few and they looked very healthy.
At ice-out I went out with the fly rod and caught a half dozen and kept one brookie and one rainbow for dinner. They were fat and healthy and their stomachs were filled full of tiny snails. Without any predators to eat the snail larvae the snail population exploded over the winter and the trout fed almost exclusively on them getting very fat. The calcium in the snail shell gave both species a bright orange flesh and made them very tasty.
If I was building a pond that could support trout I would immediately, upon filling it up, stocked snails, scuds, sow bugs, a low growing weed like Elodea and super charge the water with some manure/hay combo. I would let them be the only food in the pond for a year and then the second year add fathead minnows which are small and will not be a predator of the larger zoo planktons or invertebrate larvae but stay shallow, feeds on a lot of phyto planktons and provides a meat meal for the trout. Now the trout have a variety of foods to eat and will thrive.
Though I have never seen a snail fly pattern there is a snail "hatch" of sorts. At times, snails will somehow "inflate" themselves and float to the surface and disperse themselves in the surface film. This may be a way to survive flooding where being in deep water is no good for them and this allows them to be wind blown into shallow shore areas of their preference. I am sure that at times like this they are an easy meal for all kinds of fish species.

So now I am supposed to apologize because I made an observation about my pond and how it evolved? This is an open forum website so deal with it.
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Not sure what happened good but good posts.........