A group of pesky river otters has devastated fish populations at the Kootenay Trout Hatchery over the past few months after the otters discovered a moat that runs alongside the hatchery.
LINK (via: Coast Mountain News)
A group of pesky river otters has devastated fish populations at the Kootenay Trout Hatchery over the past few months after the otters discovered a moat that runs alongside the hatchery.
LINK (via: Coast Mountain News)
Has a quiet Dr Evil titter behind his hand.
I spent several years here in Britain, telling a group of mostly newly arrived to the pastime, carp and barbel baitfishers, with no small degree of hopefully amusing light-heartedness on my part, that “We’re in a Field of Dreams situation here, fellas – build it and they will come. If you ram lakes and rivers full of large fish that weren’t in them previously , the otters are going to think “Hey, guys, free burgers!”.
Online mayhem broke out. I even received a couple of death threats, one of them by phone. “Boys” taking their “MY pic of MY big fish is much bigger and better than your “biggie” before I lovingly returned MINE to catch it again a month or two later when it’s a few, publicity- and tackle trade sponsorship-attracting few ounces bigger!” fishing much much too seriously, again. And they wonder why kids looked on in incredulity and thought “If that’s what fishing’s about, a bunch of old blokes arguing with each other, I’m outta there before I even start.”
As someone says, “Sad. So sad….”