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Old 03-06-2014, 09:49 PM
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Just skinned my first otter and notice they are quite greasy! Got me thinking that these might be good for bait! Has anyone used otter meat as bait? Or is it a waste of time!

Thanks for looking
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Old 03-06-2014, 09:53 PM
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It's a waste of time, the last thing ever eaten at my bait stations.
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Old 03-06-2014, 10:05 PM
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Any meat will attract ravens or magpies and every coyote, fox, wolf
will come around to check out the bird noise. Snares will do the rest.
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Old 03-06-2014, 10:20 PM
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Any meat will attract ravens or magpies and every coyote, fox, wolf
will come around to check out the bird noise. Snares will do the rest.
I stand some what corrected, yes the bird activity will bring them in to investigate.
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Old 03-07-2014, 06:15 PM
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Once when we were baiting bears, a trapper gave us an otter carcass. We put it at a bait, and the bears never did touch it.
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Old 03-07-2014, 06:40 PM
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Noticed this was your first otter. May I suggest you read page 26 of this :

http://www.nafa.ca/wp-content/upload...al_2012-02.pdf

Important info to know about skinning and handling otter. Extra care needed regarding singe.


As far as the otter carcass, make soup. haha. Serve to inlaws.

Or put the carcass in a warm area and in a few days harvest the maggots for fishing bait.
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