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Offline Barbaroja

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Eating your catch
« on: November 21, 2020, 08:26:29 AM »
I’m interested in what an otter tastes like, any input?

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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2020, 09:15:33 AM »
Seems to me as a generalization, things that eat fish seem to not be very tasty.   ie. Fish eating bears, Merganser ducks etc. 

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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2020, 09:21:43 AM »
Nope  :chuckle: I know only one person that has ate otter and was not impressed. Also were I set up my bait stations iv seen that not many animals will eat otter willingly that carcass is almost always in the pile untill last. Couldn't say if that is because of the taste or because of the gland scents. My guess is the smell of otter aka "wolf of the water" is off-putting to many other predators. In my mind you never see a coyote munching on a wolf for a reason. Pecking order. Same as I can't seem to catch crawdad on crappie carcasses. Whatever an animals natural predator is it won't willingly seek it out as a food source. Just my thoughts. Since an otter eats mostly fish and crawfish in my local area I would think it would taste like merganser does. I don't shoot mergansers haha

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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2020, 09:24:20 AM »
This thread kind of goes along with the porcupine one from a month or two ago.

We need to set up a volunteer group of Huntwa members to be taste testers

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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2020, 09:32:59 AM »
porcupine is delicious.  :twocents:i cook it just the same as chicken.

dont mind the green tint with winter kills its just from eating pine needles.  :tup:
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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2020, 09:39:37 AM »
I was gonna say porcupine is great! Check out william larkham junior or youtube for a full how to hunt clean and cook a "pum-pum" as they call them in newfoundland. Plus the skulls,claws, guard hairs and quills can be worth a little gas in the tank for the next hunt. I have one sitting on my table right now I'm picking for a friend who does a lot of black smithing and I have him interested to make some beaver tail sheaths decorated with claws and quills for his knives

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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2020, 10:32:24 AM »
I will second what Norman89 said.  Otter and mink will be the last things touched in a bait pile, if they are touched at all.  Raptors are the only thing that will really get on them, but only if there is nothing else.

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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2020, 10:34:33 AM »
If I can manage to catch one, I’ll try it. Saw one this morning. I’ve tasted coyote before and found it very similar to pork. That said some meat is just inherently not good eating. Thanks for the input!

I’ve eaten merganser before. Not the best but it’s edible if prepared properly.

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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2020, 12:10:19 PM »
Coyotes and crows won’t even eat a otter

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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2020, 12:14:20 PM »
Coyotes and crows won’t even eat a otter
:chuckle:  That's no joke.
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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2020, 01:46:24 PM »
Coyotes and crows won’t even eat a otter
The old lady pulled into the driveway last night and saw a coyote trying to pull a ziplock bagged otter skull off a cable spool by my garage.


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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2020, 02:09:03 PM »
Coyotes and crows won’t even eat a otter
The old lady pulled into the driveway last night and saw a coyote trying to pull a ziplock bagged otter skull off a cable spool by my garage.


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it didn’t know what was in it yet  :chuckle:

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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2020, 05:04:05 PM »
There are only two animals, where before I start skinning, I stop and think if I have any rubber gloves around. Wolf and Otter. Luckily, I haven't been hard up enough yet to try eating either one.
There are people in Alaska who eat mink and otter in the spring, and celebrate that theyve made it to spring again.

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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2020, 08:32:14 PM »
Coyotes and crows won’t even eat a otter
The old lady pulled into the driveway last night and saw a coyote trying to pull a ziplock bagged otter skull off a cable spool by my garage.


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it didn’t know what was in it yet  :chuckle:
Possible lol


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Re: Eating your catch
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2020, 08:51:10 PM »
dont mind the green tint with winter kills its just from eating pine needles.  :tup:

I have killed grouse that have had a greenish tint to the meat, seemed to taste just fine though.

There are only two animals, where before I start skinning, I stop and think if I have any rubber gloves around. Wolf and Otter. Luckily, I haven't been hard up enough yet to try eating either one.

I have never trapped or skinned one, but I am curious what is it about wolves that make you put on gloves?

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