Good job!


Have any nutes in your area?

Just so you know our luck is holding we were going to town as we found a flat through the side wall. Not all peaches and cream.

No, just both in the same crossover.



No idea, lol. There's a lake on one side and a marshy area on the other side with a crossover on the levee in between. The marshy area looks like great rat habitat so I guess he must have came from there.



We do. But there does not seem to be an overabundance of them. I've only ever caught a few.

Nice looking otter. I always love catching a rat!

That looks like a big otter or maybe its the camera angle

Nice action.

Maybe they'll increase South Dakota's otter quota for this fall. Maybe not.

He just seemed average size to me. I'll measure him tomorrow.

I'm curious about catching a cat in a 220 on a crossover.

You may be thinking "beaver dam crossover" which isn't what I am referring to. Down here, every lake or pond has a levee, where the crick runs into the lake. They run concrete overflow units in the lakes as opposed to culverts. So, to get from the lake to the creek, the otters and other critters have beaten down trails (almost always by the overflow dealy) that we refer to as crossovers. You can see what I am calling a "crossover" in the very first pic I posted on this thread. It's not a dam crossover, it's a levee crossover. The crossover in that pic is not the one I caught the cat in this year, but I did catch a cat in that very same crossover another year. (It's also the one that yielded both the otter and muskrat today).

Here is perhaps a better pic of what I am calling a crossover.... You can see here the beaten down trail coming from the lake... up across the levee, and down the other side to the crick. The otters often have toilets at the top of these levees at these crossovers.



All high and dry... I hate soggy critters. These sets cut down somewhat on incidental beavers, which I do not want. I hate everything about beaver. But sometimes the idiots still shove their heads through the 220s....

Here is the actual set the cat was caught in. You cannot really see a pronounced trail/crossover in this pic, but it was there....



Since we moved here 12 or so years ago, my small trapline has yielded I believe 3 cats in these type of sets, otters, nutria, beaver, muskrat and once a very ticked off leg-caught coyote lol.

Strange those cats were swimming in the lake then going to swim in the crick.

We can use round 280's and square 220's on dry land here. The round 280's are great for otter on a crossover.