re: How common are otters in Louisiana

I had a crab trap that I would put out at the end of my boat slip and it occasionally got left in the river. Once, while I was out of town of course, I got a phone call from my neighbor saying there was a dead otter in my trap stinking up the neighborhood. The decomposing otter had floated the trap.

I got home the next day, and sure enough, there was a dead otter in the trap. And boy did it fricking stink. It was so swollen, I couldn't shake him out of the trap. I ended up tying a cinder block to the trap to sink it and just waited for nature to do its thing.

I felt bad for the otter. It had torn the orange plastic escape rings away and tried to make a bigger hole. Of course maybe that fricker is why I hadn't been catching any crabs.

I would not shoot one. I would let somebody come and trap if I absolutely had to get rid of them

Back when my great grandpa was trapping they were plentiful. By the 70's they were almost non existent. Now thanks to our wild life and fisheries office they are coming back strong. A real sucess story kinda like the Eagles and black bears and gaters and such. Almost hunted to extinction and now that less people trap and humt and they are regulated they are back.

I love watching otters. They’re always having a good time.

They’re trying to clean out our pond as we speak.

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See them all over in Venice when duck hunting and fishing.

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Was about to post the same thing. They are fun to watch.

Why the hell did I get downvotes? We have a trapping license. Actually have a fur with a special tag. Softest fur i have ever felt

I use to see them all the time when I hunted in the swamp.

See more and more all the time in different creaks and bayous. Evident that trapping is a forgotten art

I've had them steal birds on multiple occasions and had one eff my dog up pretty bad last season. My guess is that the otter was hungrier than my pup.

I have seen one by the camp in Pigeon. That sumbitch was HUGE