I do live here but I can only see a small portion of the pond from the house. When I bought this place in 2016 the pond was a disaster of duckweed with no fish as far as I could tell. I put some bluegill, crappie, channel cat, redear sunfish, and a couple grass carp in it in mid October 2016. I've spent the last couple summers trying to clear out the weeds and clean up the water. Last fall I was catching crappie about every cast. We asked the neighbor about the pond when we bought the place (the previous landowner passed and his wife didn't really get involved in any of the outside property stuff). He said they used to fish there often and he'd occasionally transplant a good crappie from other places to this pond. Then the fish were just gone. I assume we're now on the otter dinner check rotation. I live near anamosa between the buffalo and the wapsi. There is a valley that runs next to my pond dam that usually has a trickle of water in it. It feeds into the buffalo. I'm guessing with the high water this year that trickle looked a lot more inviting to swimming otters. I'll probably talk to the dnr to see what my immediate options are. I'd love to try to trap him but by November I'm not sure there will be any fish left to keep him coming back. By then I'll probably be back to 10000 bullfrogs and painted turtles.
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