It only took 27 days

[Water Rat]

I found some fresh otter sign about a month ago. At first I wasn’t going to set it but I couldn’t help myself.  Every morning I was chopping the ice to check my set. I was hoping that the weather would warm up enough to melt some of the ice in the creek especially near the bank so I could make a drowning set. After 27 days of checking an empty trap , he finally came back from his travel loop. The photo shows where he travelled over the ice. I forgot to measure him but he weighed in at 24 pounds.

[Meatball]

Persistence paid off. Congratulations 🦾

[2BuckBizCT]

Cool. is that an otter?

[mowin]

Way to go WR.  Definitely a well earned catch. 

[Lawdwaz]

1 hour ago, 2BuckBizCT said:

Cool. is that an otter?

This isn’t Playboy…….please read the thread.  

[Dinorocks]

Awesome!!  They didn’t make the loop for me before I had to break camp this time around.  Great job!  Skinning the tail can be challenging for me…I read up quick before I skinned my first one and it definitely helped!

[Bucksnbows]

The average otter territory is 40 square miles. Great job being persistent! 

[2BuckBizCT]

13 hours ago, Lawdwaz said:

This isn’t Playboy…….please read the thread.  

Fun Fact - When I was british columbia on a lynx hunt and tagged out with an extra day or two, I went around on snowmobile checking muskrat traps on the ice. We saw an otter in the distance and you can legally shoot them there. It was a long 125-ish yard shot with a little .22 rifle. Just the head sticking out. I missed. But, the thoughts of one of those cool otter mounts under the ice was already rolling in my brain.

[virgil]

That seems like an awful lot of time and energy invested.  What's the incentive- is the pelt valuable, are they nuisances?

[Belo]

Love it!

[Water Rat]

38 minutes ago, virgil said:

That seems like an awful lot of time and energy invested.  What's the incentive- is the pelt valuable, are they nuisances?

It is a lot of time , energy and gas money….. but it’s fun too. I’m considering getting a life size mount.

[2BuckBizCT]

1 hour ago, Water Rat said:

It is a lot of time , energy and gas money….. but it’s fun too. I’m considering getting a life size mount.

I wish I could find it, but i once saw a coffee table type thing where the otter is inside half under the ice and half out.