What Went On Here Then I Wonder?

[DIDO.1 20,851]

Do you reckon it's an otter in my loft??

 

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[bobcullen79 1,495]

Otter kill from a carp water . The only sign was a bitten fin, it had been dragged up on the banking and simply left to die. Otters do not just kill to eat, on heavily stocked waters thay will kill alot and only eat a small portion from each. They seem to love carp! That fish was about 6lb, but I have seen ten - fifteen pounders from the same water killed too. This is a water that is far away from a river, it's amazing how far into suburbia otters travel and they never get seen!

We had an otter on one of my old clubs ponds and it killed bigger fish than that. Up to 26lb I think the biggest was. Most of them just had their bellies eaten and the rest left. This water wasnt what you`d term heavily stocked or a "runs" water either. Sad as its not worth fishing now. Like you say, they dont need waterways close together to get about.

[Nicepix 5,650]

Do you reckon it's an otter in my loft??

 

 

Possibly. It could have swum up the water pipe and made a holt in the cistern.

[shropshire mole 190]

It's a fish,,,and is dead,,,,not much of a mystery......

But is it dead??

[perthshire keeper 1,237]

you think their bad on a fish pond? try a otter that has found a flight pond with 200 newly released mallards on it ducks walking about with beaks eaten off...or the arse eaten out of them..dead ones all over the place with the parsons nose eaten out

[DIDO.1 20,851]

We need pics of that sort of thing...ducks with no beaks would certainly put some of the bunny huggers off their breakfast

[perthshire keeper 1,237]

We need pics of that sort of thing...ducks with no beaks would certainly put some of the bunny huggers off their breakfast

yeh then they get all infected and start getting maggoted so you take the 17hmr and the springer to the pond and shoot the poor buggers......but we all know that otters like badgers only eat dandelion roots and turnip tops

Edited December 19, 2015 by perthshire keeper

[J Darcy 5,871]

 

We need pics of that sort of thing...ducks with no beaks would certainly put some of the bunny huggers off their breakfast

yeh then they get all infected and start getting maggoted so you take the 17hmr and the springer to the pond and shoot the poor buggers......but we all know that otters like badgers only eat dandelion roots and turnip tops

 

Aye, the otter is a true predator. I was at a fishery the other week, there were plenty of carp laying about, all with just one bite out of them. Fishery owner had tried to fence the otters out, but he'd only used rabbit wire and they'd bitten through that! If people knew the amount of otters about they'd be shocked!

[neil cooney 10,415]

Otters and Seals, two of the most destructive predators we have that DO kill for sport. I've seen both do it.