went to the Lease this am in Fannin County with my buddy. I am 49 years old and lived my entire life in North Texas Hunting, Fishing, Trapping and Etc. In my entire life I have only seen one Otter and it was in South Louisiana dead on the side of the road at in In Laws. This morning I saw one in the Duck Slew. We sat and watched it for a good 3 or 4 minutes, before it realized we were there watching it. I am glad to see our wildlife coming back. Sorry, I did not have my camera with me, but at least I had someone with me.

they are pretty cool little creatures. often times they will watch you as much as you watch them. they are about as curious as an animal gets

I've seen some on some ponds and creeks southeast of Leonard, I wonder if they are related to yours.

River otters are starting to make a come back. I've seen quite a few north of Dallas. Even had to see two that were hit by a car.

In Angelina county we have no shortage of otter, they will all your fish off a trotline too

very cool, they're neat little animals

My dad has one that shows up randomly in one of his ponds north of Paris.

My buddy used to be on a deer lease north of Paris that had a an otter in their pond

I had a pledge brother at Ole Miss we called Otter. Other than that I have never seen one, but I don't really live in Otter country

We see them on a 40 acre lake we have in Leonard. Cool watching them float on their back eating stuff.

we were covered up in them before the drought, haven't seen any in a couple years

Ditto here. Five years back we had a pair of Otters living in our SE corner dawg training ponds. When we had really heavy rains they would follow an overflow channel from our wetlands back to the source and then across 50 yards or so of lawn to the pond next to the house. We saw them regularly for three years until the drought hit in the summer of 2011. Haven't seen them since.

I think I remember you posting pics!

I was fishing at L.Fork a couple of yrs. ago, and in back of one of one of the creeks that feeds "Little Caney", we saw 3 different otter's in one weekend!! They are pretty neat to watch......

I trapped 4 on our place last yr. we had a beaver dam and the otterss moved in and ran off the beavers. Had no clue we had em till I had one in every snare I set. Caught a couple in turtle traps last yr too. I reported all to tpwd for a research study they were doing. Apparently there are a lot more than u realize. Very shy animals.

seen one today on fork. Had know idea they where here.

Saw one this summer at Bowman Springs on Lake Arlington

Watched a whole family group of Otters on a hunt in North Mississippi a few years back. One of the young ones surfaced a few feet away from me with a bream in his mouth. He crawled up on the beaver dam about 10 feet from me and ate breakfast. They are really fascinating to watch and "talk" to one another quite a bit.