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madplotter

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Anyone ever have otter problems? Last summer I saw what a swore was a fisher cross the road when I was taking a walk. I never even dreamed it would be an otter. A good friend was fishing our pond and he thinks an otter has been raiding the pond because the quality has declined and I think I saw tracks last summer, just did not think about otters...
 
Otters...GRRRR!! While neat to see and cute to watch, they will seriously degrade the fishing in your pond(s)...and usually in a matter of days. If they just killed fish to eat them, maybe it wouldn't be so bad. But they kill and kill and kill and kill and eat a fraction of them. Short version...I had them in my big pond at my farm and the fishing nowadays is a shadow of the past. I now have a nice pond, still filling up, behind our new house and while it has been stocked, the fish are still pretty small. But that will be my "fish pond" of the future because when Mr. or Mrs. Otter show up there, and they will, they will be in comfortable range of my .17 cal...if you know what I mean. :)

I will be shooting them there even if the DNR is on my deck with me telling me not to. These beasts will kill thousands of dollars of fish in a few days. If you think that you are far enough away from a river system that they will never reach you...think again...they will somehow travel miles over land to get to your pond eventually. Nature abhors a vacuum. :) If your pond does happen to be anywhere near a river system...forget about it...they're there.
 
My new farm has a 1/2 acre pond. I doubt there is fish in it, was a cattle pond, but its deep enough to hold fish. Was thinking of getting it stocked, but ive got trail cam pic of 3 otters and twice now I have seen an otter swimming in the pond. I better get them trapped or something before bothering to get it stocked I guess?
 
Yep, they will ransack a pond in short order. Like, plentiful fish to zero in days.

My wife and I never pass up an opportunity to say "FTO.... F%&K them Otters".... lol. For context..... this is a WILD listen:
 
Daver said:
Otters...GRRRR!! While neat to see and cute to watch, they will seriously degrade the fishing in your pond(s)...and usually in a matter of days. If they just killed fish to eat them, maybe it wouldn't be so bad. But they kill and kill and kill and kill and eat a fraction of them. Short version...I had them in my big pond at my farm and the fishing nowadays is a shadow of the past. I now have a nice pond, still filling up, behind our new house and while it has been stocked, the fish are still pretty small. But that will be my "fish pond" of the future because when Mr. or Mrs. Otter show up there, and they will, they will be in comfortable range of my .17 cal...if you know what I mean. :)

I will be shooting them there even if the DNR is on my deck with me telling me not to. These beasts will kill thousands of dollars of fish in a few days. If you think that you are far enough away from a river system that they will never reach you...think again...they will somehow travel miles over land to get to your pond eventually. Nature abhors a vacuum. :) If your pond does happen to be anywhere near a river system...forget about it...they're there.
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We live 2 miles from the Des Moines and less than a mile from 2 creeks that feed into the Des Moines. We are already working on a box trap. The ole' boy that figured it out is an old school outdoorsman and he hates them. He said they are pound for pound the meanest animal in the state...
 
Otters are common up here in Minnesota. The county to my north is Otter Tail . They can be hard on a small body of water … no doubt .

I see them on my cameras and by my dock .
 
We had otter issues. Had a trapper come and caught all three on a Christmas morning. Get rid of them as fast as you can! The largest is now mounted in our cabin.

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