those are nice photos but otters are absolutely devistating to fish. I am origanlly from southeast mo, and we have an open otter season, with no limit. Otters were all but gone until the missouri game and fish re-introduced them in 96. After that, our fish populations went down, dramtically. I was a very avid trapper, and got many calls from fish farmers, farmers with just pleasure fishing ponds, and people just seeing them in a river or creek running through their property to catch all of the otters. They are more of a nusiance than anything now. One fish hatchery reported having 15,000 dollars worth of damages done by otters. So for your fishing sake, try to get the DNR to give you a permit to remove the animals.