Mink don't go after that large a fish (I trap...I'm tellin' ya), but would definitely eat them if found dead, but fresh.
Turtles wouldn't leave the heads...that's what we use for bait in the summer to trap turtles.
Gotta be an otter...never have seen one of them critters, but there's supposed to be a few around here (S.E. Iowa) and more where you're at.
That's gotta be it...
In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times. My wife figures I'm due to die any day now...
