That must have been quite a mink to have arms.I know they have front and rear legs,but it must be from outer space if it had arms.
Tom

Well now I'm going to look around in the morning. I have never seen an otter in PA and I'm 50. I've been in the woods my entire life and have seen them in other states but never PA. Now I'm all excited, I want to see one, just not in my traps since it's illegal.

It had arms like Lou Ferrigno ……….. so there!

a lot of the releases were done in kinzua.caught my first here in 1990.were rare till 5 or 6 yrs ago and the population seems to have exploded.

Yea, like I said, the scat I saw caught my eye because it was unfamiliar. I was even wondering what it was from at the time. I'll be looking in the morning.

Must be a gator in that swamp watch yerself!

The only otters I've ever seen in PA were in Carbon County. They were swimming in Mud Run, a tributary of the Lehigh river.

Finster here is a photo form my trail camera fr0m 5 or 6 years ago in Lycoming county. Look carefully there are 6 otter in this photo. This photo has been on T-man before.I have many photos of them, we are polluted with them and no season for them here. for beaver I use mainly foot hold and to release an otter by yourself is dangerous!! Use a choke pole and choke them down till they don't move, you only get one shot at getting that loop on them, be careful they will bite.......jk

And i think another mink did the nasty deed. I have had several mink in traps killed by other mink as seen by the tracks in the snow.......jk

owl

at the forest county trapping day this year,4 came swimming up the stream we where on.
goldnut ran into some on the shenango last beaver season.

Had a family that stayed in a beaver pond behind the house
for a while, till they ate all the fish and moved down stream,
they're pretty established in the French Creek basin.
Have seen one fishing for catfish right in Oil City,
Big Sandy doesn't have the boat traffic so you should have a better chance.
Spend a couple of days in Raymilton either fishing or hunting
you're bound to see one.

I.would guess bigger mink. Seen mink killed by other mink several times

Release wouldn't be a problem for me. I only use 330's for beaver. So if I would catch one, I would have to call the warden.

He never told me that! I wonder what else he hasn't told me? Wait till I see him again.

Otter

We have otter. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I can show you otter tracks from last week. I caught one on Sandy Creek two years ago.