I have a small pond on my property, have been stocking it for years. The grand kids love to fish in it because it truly is "catching".
This time of year we catch grasshoppers and throw them in and about the second or third time they kick, WHAM!
Went out today and nothing, nada.
Checked the game camera and found three large, well fed otters walking through my woods a healthy mile from Blue River.
It is one thing to have fished Blue River for years and loving it until now all you can catch is Goggleye and Asian carp, but now the robbers cleaned out my own honey hole.
A friend in another county had the same problem and called the DNR to complain. Their answer (no lie) was, "not to worry, when all the fish are gone they will leave..."
I pushed the pond in years ago, before grand kids, for the wildlife to water. It is a big draw for all the animals on my place and a game camera will get 200 to 2000 pics a month.
Granted, otters are wildlife but so are termites and I don't want to keep them fed either.
I don't know what the memory of an otter is like but I guess I spent all my time and money making a smorgasbord...
This time of year we catch grasshoppers and throw them in and about the second or third time they kick, WHAM!
Went out today and nothing, nada.
Checked the game camera and found three large, well fed otters walking through my woods a healthy mile from Blue River.
It is one thing to have fished Blue River for years and loving it until now all you can catch is Goggleye and Asian carp, but now the robbers cleaned out my own honey hole.
A friend in another county had the same problem and called the DNR to complain. Their answer (no lie) was, "not to worry, when all the fish are gone they will leave..."
I pushed the pond in years ago, before grand kids, for the wildlife to water. It is a big draw for all the animals on my place and a game camera will get 200 to 2000 pics a month.
Granted, otters are wildlife but so are termites and I don't want to keep them fed either.
I don't know what the memory of an otter is like but I guess I spent all my time and money making a smorgasbord...