Otter in the pond

[hvacman04]

We are close to flooding up here on the mountain, creeks are running hard and pond is close to going over the dam. Guess this guy likes it extra wet, he showed up a couple days ago. Did same thing last winter when the creeks got high, stayed a few days and left. Hope he doesn’t wear his welcome out this time. View attachment 1632666

Dear ttfreestyle, I was wondering if the otters they will get rid of turtles.
I learned how to shoot turtles , shoot them in the back of their shell. My brother was shooting turtles out his
father-laws beautiful lake. Don't use
Weatherby 240 rifle caliber, looks like you busted a watermelon, crows and buzzards loved us. I went to using a 22 long rifle or 22 magnum to make a shot in the back , but not lethal , them come out of the lake and finish them off. A 240 weatherby is bad to to bone on turtles ,WOW. Buck , in n.c.

 

[ttfreestyle]

Dear ttfreestyle, I was wondering if the otters they will get rid of turtles.
I learned how to shoot turtles , shoot them in the back of their shell. My brother was shooting turtles out his
father-laws beautiful lake. Don't use
Weatherby 240 rifle caliber, looks like you busted a watermelon, crows and buzzards loved us. I went to using a 22 long rifle or 22 magnum to make a shot in the back , but not lethal , them come out of the lake and finish them off. A 240 weatherby is bad to to bone on turtles ,WOW. Buck , in n.c.

I am not sure how otters and turtles interact together but turtles have a hard go of it in my pond without otters .....

 

[Doug Casner]

I bet the special effects are impressive with a 240 weatherby. Ive seen 220 swifts and turtles very dramatic. Doug

 

[ttfreestyle]

Ok I’m watching him eat another big bream. Guess it’s time to “run” him off.

 

[jpx2rk]

Ok I’m watching him eat another big bream. Guess it’s time to “run” him off.

Try that new CZ you got.

 

[ttfreestyle]

Try that new CZ you got.

I’ll shoot next to him to run him off ......

 

[ChrisNZ]

I bet the special effects are impressive with a 240 weatherby. Ive seen 220 swifts and turtles very dramatic. Doug

That's one of my lasting memories of visiting the US, OK in particular. A .22-250 was "definitive" on a big snapper basking on a branch. Also had a good session with rimfires on a pond maybe 80yds in diameter. We were never certain on hits but the landowner called my local buddy a few days later to say how impressive the washed-up body count was.

 

[hvacman04]

I’ll shoot next to him to run him off ......

Dear ttfreestyle, get you some chicken livers and fix them to hook, then get a good gallon jug, with a lid and the chicken livers about a foot or so below the milk jug, then get you
a good nylon cord and have it tied off to a tree or a cement block or maybe
two , sit and wait. Check livers once a day. I heard people eating these, I don't kno if I am wired up for that that kinda like eating coyote jerky, or possum. Those turtles will drag ducks, geese under the water, and drown, little ducks don't have a chance. This works on the chicken livers and make a good hi.-strength fishing line, so will not get away and bingo. I hope this helps.
I would miss a 1/2 day work , to get one of these. Buck

 

[kochie]

A friend of mine is a state fisheries biologist. He told me on more than one occasion that most small lakes and ponds are underfished. I get an otter once every few years and it stays for a few weeks and then disappears. The only difference I see is that the fish I catch the following summer appear larger. Not as many fish, but more space and more food for the survivors. It beats catching a bucket full of 4 inch bluegills anytime.

Last summer I stocked some 2-3 pound bass but I doubt that they can control the bluegill population. I need a few more hungry otters.

 

[kochie]

kill it it will eat all your fish!!!!

 

[jds holler]

kill it it will eat all your fish!!!!

I suppose a 20 lb otter could eat something like a few pounds of fish a day, but that isn't much compared to the predations of a family of pelicans.-- or a dozen five pound bass. Warm water fish multiply so fast and successfully that they often become stunted and need a good predator to keep them under control.

I'm a fish gobbling predator myself, and I'll throw back a five pound bass, and keep a dozen or two half pounders any day. Or preferably perch and crappie.

Around here what usually happens is a few low water years, and THEY ALL die. Then you wait for another five years or so and they're back. jd

 

[snert]

I am a budding amateur psychologist with many years of psychotic experience -- and behavior.
But I wouldn't touch your problem - even with a ten inch pole. jd

Could not have fever dreamed a better response!

 

[ttfreestyle]

Otter has moved on so all is good, for now.....

 

[kochie]

Otter has moved on so all is good, for now.....

if one otter there's more otters!!! otter completely wipe the fish out of my buddy's pond

 

[ttfreestyle]

if one otter there's more otters!!! otter completely wipe the fish out of my buddy's pond

I’ll know if another comes, my pond is about 50ish yards from my front door and porch. I turtle hunt regularly.....

 

[kochie]

I’ll know if another comes, my pond is about 50ish yards from my front door and porch. I turtle hunt regularly.....

ok