Dont we all just need to get out and catch some fish. I didnt realize this was gona turn into a beaver trolling thing. As for the people that dont believe it was a beaver next time i shall take a picture.
I am not denying it was a beaver. I had a beaver take up lodging in the creek next to my house last year. I am denying that beaver eat fish. As I said, they are herbivores and eat primarily bark and the soft tissue under the bark as well as other twigs and leaves and roots and such. As to why beavers smell like fish, I cannot say as I have never gotten close enough to one to smell it, but I suspect it would be pretty musky given it is a giant rodent. Perhaps the "smell" you smell is the environment (they live in fishy water so perhaps that is what you smell, not the beaver itself which rarely lets you get close enough). Otters on the other hand are quite willing to swim in close and check you out...not that the animal you saw was an otter...