We have lots of Otters here. A mom with 2 pups, a large aggressive male and others. We enjoy watching their antic's. Hannah has a feud going on with them and we believe both sides are enjoying the event. Right now the mom and pups are staying at an area we have to drive by each day. The area is covered with dead fish remains and little piles of scat. They know not to ---- in their water. If they can keep the water from freezing they can use this area for along time. But as you can see today in -30 they are having a hard time.
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How wonderful!! I wonder about otters, How deep is the water, where they overwinter, is it a big river? Do they stay in that spot all winter?
The Otters are an amazing animal. Our lake is guite deep and is 5 km long and has lots of warm springs emptying into the lake. There are several large creeks also going out of lake. The fish here are many....lots of trout and salmon and dolly. When the lake freezes over tight the otter are in old beaver bank tunnels on the sides of the lake. They always keep access to the lake open somewhere. They don't have a crainium ridge on the top of their skull like a dog or the weisel family. Their skull is smooth and really thick. They chew the ice and bust thru. Our lake has lots of overflow so there are weaker spots in places. The mom and 2 pups have been at the one spot now for a month. At the end of the lake the males are probably hanging out but we don't travel down there. We sometimes see the large males travelling alone....sometimes on the ice infront of our cabin sometimes they travel by land just behind our outhouse.
my wife is inheritimg a trapline neer the parsnip river and i hope to get in to the trapping.I have been logging (feller buncher) for the last ten years and now kind of sick of it, so what better chance to do something different. The trapline is being passed down from my wifes great great grandfather. There is no cabins on the trapline because ken used to live in bearlake. I enjoy reading all the info on your site, very interesting. I will keep in touch and continue learning from you. Later, from mike in Fort st James.
Hi Mike. I was also a logger for a long time. I think it gets you ready for a life in the bush. It is alot more peaceful out here than in town. Glad to hear you have a trapline. Alot of people are looking for one.
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