I was fishing in another buddy's pond from a jon boat, late afternoon, and my buddy and I watched an otter come out of a hole in the bank, walk along the bank, and slide into the water. A few minutes later, the otter came back up the same spot with a small bass and went back into his/her hole. We were not more than 20 feet from it the whole time.
That pond was not far from a river. I'm glad my pond is nowhere near a river.
