Lake/Pond Problems

[Christopherkeene9]

Discovered a pesky otter yesterday and finally photographed the thing. It's very funny. Yesterday it looked at me then went under when I looked up, it did this a few times. Then I got my Camera out for a pic and while doing so it came up and made this noise at me, but of course as soon as I look up it goes under, didn't see him again. Well aparently my neighbor has spotted another one in my Favorite pond behind his house yesterday too.

Well today I see him in the distance as I'm fishing laying on his back eating something. A little later he sees ME and comes over and checks me out popping up his head a few times. Well I got a pic this time. Once he came within 10 feet of me but of course as soon as I turned to a take a pic he goes under then off to a dock to make more noise at me.

Moral of the story is that I have heard their favorite food is bass, Is this true?







Sorry for the bad pics but he's a sneaky little critter

[skeeter944]

i'm not sure about them eating all the bass,but yeah,he probably eats like smaller 5-10 inch bass and probably some bluegill if you have them in that pond.

[texasbasser]

we have some in our lakes, and i have seen them eating bluegill. dont know about bass though.

[zooker]

they eat smaller fish mostly carp and gar but will eat anything they can catch at times.. otters might look funny act weird but are flat out MEAN.


zooker

[jooleyen]

I caught a fat otter on a topwater at night a few months ago. I accidentaly snagged him. When I got him up close and realized that he was an otter, I just cut the line.

[mack]

if you dont want one, you can always buy a trap (non lethal kind) and put some dead fish in it. when he goes in it, hes trapped. set him loose in a swamp someplace. problem solved (legally).

[rrw4258]

uh oh... looks like nessie has returned... id watch out if i were you!

Ryan