What’s Eating my Catfish?

[Txtourist]

A floating otter set with a 330 conibear works well if it’s a pond that there’s any chance of kids or dogs being around. If you haven’t messed around with these traps before, be certain you have a couple big HVAC zip ties handy if you somehow get a hand stuck.
Here’s a great tutorial on a floating otter set-

https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/6918177/lightweight-otter-float-tutorial-w-pics

[Muskles]

It's time to use that thermal for otters instead of pigs. I've had a few in my pond several years ago and blasted them with trusty 12.

[Ferg]

Low oxygen level, big catfish die first

[Texas452]

Otters.
We seen a mama and 4 kits Saturday morning in a pond not far from Bryan

[BTLowry]

First guess was otter, see I am not the only one

[muzzlebrake]

Might have a homeless Cajun living in the woods nearby. They usually eat the heads too

[Mike Fangman]

I bet it just died , of who know what and floated over to the bank, then something ate on it.

[HogHunter34]

Both fish were on the dam side of my pond.
Plan is to mount my camera this afternoon viewing the dam portion
Stay tuned

[Ouch]

Otter. I saw one in the neighbor's pond a few weeks ago, right at dusk. He was ecstatic, as he's never seen one.

One got hit by a car near my house a year or so ago... **** thing had to weigh 40 pounds. He was huge.

[TKRanch]

How big of a pond? With temps rising, if it has too many fish in it low oxygen will kill the large cats first and maybe it was just found by a coon on the edge??

[HogHunter34]

How big of a pond? With temps rising, if it has too many fish in it low oxygen will kill the large cats first and maybe it was just found by a coon on the edge??

1/3-1/2 acre
They seem active & healthy when I feed in the evenings with the floating catfish food
I have not seen any floaters nor has my son as he is around the pond fishing off & on

[Man]

I bet it just died , of who knows what and floated over to the bank, then something ate on it.

^^ This. Otters are innocent until proven guilty.

[AntlerCollector]

I don’t think it was an Otter

[Fishndude]

Both fish were on the dam side of my pond.
Plan is to mount my camera this afternoon viewing the dam portion
Stay tuned

Will be fun to watch. They’re cute but destructive.

[jay07ag]

Both fish were on the dam side of my pond.
Plan is to mount my camera this afternoon viewing the dam portion
Stay tuned

Sounds like a dam otter then....