Otter Problem.. what do I do?

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Or I have an Andean crispy fried guinea pig recipe that you can adapt...

[TnRiver46]

On 5/15/2017 at 10:58 PM, Raul said:

Hmmm, now blaming the otters for not catching fish .......  that's a new one.

Surely you jest...... everyone around here blames the otters. They reintroduced them in the early 90s and they are everywhere now. I deal with nuisance animals for a living and we get calls about them cleaning out koi ponds. 330 conibear is the way to deal with an otter, they can fetch decent coin for the fur too. That being said I would only trap them if they are truly causing problems or trap them in winter for the pelt. Like several folks already posted, they can't kill all the fish in  large watershed but they can do damage on a small one. The best smallmouth rivers near my house are loaded with  otters and have been for years. These rivers still produce lots of big fish, it is rare not to see 4+ Otters in the middle of the day at the prime honey holes 

[Dwight Hottle]

Before you consider any recipes you need to grab one by the ear and put it in a sleeper hold. 

 

 

[NCbassraider]

58 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

Before you consider any recipes you need to grab one by the ear and put it in a sleeper hold. 

 

 

That's a big boy there.  Gotta be over 30lbs, right?  Just think, they eat half their body weight/day so if you have a mating pair with a few pups in a pond it won't take long for them to clean it out.

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, Dwight Hottle said:

Before you consider any recipes you need to grab one by the ear and put it in a sleeper hold. 

 

 

Nice one!!!!! You better pack 2 lunches if you plan on wrestling one of them 

[Gundog]

5 hours ago, Dwight Hottle said:

Before you consider any recipes you need to grab one by the ear and put it in a sleeper hold. 

 

 

Vulcan death grip? 

[N Florida Mike]

I would never feel sorry for otters. They are gluttons. They will kill fish just for the sport of it ,eat a couple mouthfuls and move on to another fish. They cleaned out my whole lake of catfish. Its legal to hunt them in florida, at certain times of year. I could not figure out why I couldnt catch any cats, until I saw the otter.They did not seem to hurt the bass or bream pop. though. I got up early several days in a row to hunt the one I was seeing. Got him in my sight one morning with my .410. Fixing to pull the trigger and my wife hollered dont shoot it. He went under and after that was much craftier. I tried trapping it with no success, then finally prayed about it. Havent seen one since !!?

we do have nutria rats, which are eating my grass on the lakebank. But they are easy to trap and dont eat fish.

 

[J._Bricker]

Otters? I’d gladly swap you the sea lions that inhabit the California Delta and feed on bass and other fish species year round. The otters out here feed HEAVILY on crawdads, which is pretty evident by the scat left on docks. But hey, I guess we should be happy there’s still fish to catch. Continued good fishing all, JB 

[WRB]

1 hour ago, J._Bricker said:

Otters? I’d gladly swap you the sea lions that inhabit the California Delta and feed on bass and other fish species year round. The otters out here feed HEAVILY on crawdads, which is pretty evident by the scat left on docks. But hey, I guess we should be happy there’s still fish to catch. Continued good fishing all, JB 

The Pacific sea otter is a shell fish eater, the river otters are fish eaters. The California Sea Lion, not the harbor seal, is a protected animal, weighs between 500-800 lbs and eats fish. Sea lions destroy fish populations especially salmon. Anglers are regulated, sea lions are protected.

My grandmother had a pet river otter until it drowned her dog.

Tom

[burrows]

7 minutes ago, WRB said:

The Pacific sea otter is a shell fish eater, the river otters are fish eaters. The California Sea Lion, not the harbor seal, is a protected animal, weighs between 500-800 lbs and eats fish. Sea lions destroy fish populations especially salmon. Anglers are regulated, sea lions are protected.

My grandmother had a pet river otter until it drowned her dog.

Tom

What happened after it killed the dog?

[WRB]

9 minutes ago, Burro said:

What happened after it killed the dog?

It dissapeared!

Tom

[Gundog]

8 hours ago, WRB said:

It dissapeared!

Tom

Mafia hit?   Did El Chapo get him?  A single shot from the grassy knoll?  Alien abduction? 

[WRB]

5 minutes ago, Gundog said:

Mafia hit?   Did El Chapo get him?  A single shot from the grassy knoll?  Alien abduction? 

I was about 6 years old when grams otter disappeared. I was told the otter drowned Legit the dog and not to ask what happened to Sammy the otter.

Tom

[clh121787]

I've witnessed first hand otters ruining good bite. I fish a heated reservoir. When they run the pumps from a neighboring lake that shares the dam. fish move in by the thousands to get in that cooler oxygenated water. 2 guides and i were fishing it catching fish for a few hours hundreds. Several otter moved into the area and the bite came to a halt. 

[Gundog]

7 hours ago, WRB said:

I was about 6 years old when grams otter disappeared. I was told the otter drowned Legit the dog and not to ask what happened to Sammy the otter.

Tom

Awwww....definitely a mafia hit ;). Got ya. Nobody ask any questions and nobody gets hurt. Except the otter. Legit the dog was probably a made man. You can't just kill a made man and get away with it. A message had to be sent. 

[soflabasser]

Make Youtube videos of the otters you see since their are people who like seeing videos of them.