On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:28:38 -0500, Flycaster
wrote:

I do a lot of fly fishing for large mouth bass in the golf ponds/lakes
in my area of southern FL. Occasionally, I see and otter or two in the
waters. Questions are, will otters eat the larger bass

If they can catch them or find them injured or dead, yes.

and can they
clean out the lake of fish?

No. By the time the fish got hard to catch, the otters would move on.
(my silly remark for the day. Please ignore it if you're serious.)

They don't eat that much in way of fish. You might have to worry
about the crawfish and the bivalves if you're of a mind to be worrying
about something.

They might also eat smaller bass, particularly the fingerling sizes.
They may be quick and agile, but they like to eat things that don't
move to quickly and won't turn around and bite them.

Lots of things eat large bass. Larger bass, pike, legitimate
fishermen, poachers, just for a few examples. Save your worries for
poachers. They don't stop just because they have enough to eat, the
way otters do.

I find lots of otter dining rooms (they tend to take stuff back to
certain places to eat it) and seldom see anything resembling fish
bones or scales around there.



Cyli
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