I was on a bayue tour a few years ago and the guide had said they there was a bounty on them and if he had at least 6 passengers (hunters) come at once he would take them out shooting nutria for $20 each as long as he could collect the bountys of all the nutria shot (I think they have to take the tails in to get paid). He claimed they were good eating if you could get past the look of them, and the fur could be harvested as well.
Posts: 159 | Location: New Brunswick, Canada | Registered: 24 September 2010
I'd bet that just about any duck guide out there would happily take a couple hundred bucks to ride you around between seasons to kill some marsh rats. The bounty thing depends on time and place. As this has been a particularly dry year in Louisiana, there are no bounties out there, that I know of, as the nutria and beaver damming up water is keeping farmers in business this year. During a wet year, however, the little rats and their dams will be flooding land that should be in production, and bounties will start being offered. Good luck.
If you have a boat and a rifle you probably dont need a guide. Try to come after the louisiana duck season when the grass is still dead, find yourself a big section of open marsh and get after it. The state pays a 5 dollar bounty on the tails during the open season ussally in dec and jan. Land owners get the bounty all year long. Best places bettween houma and morgan city or in the achafalay basin
You just ride around in a boat in the marsh & shoot them. Big rats are all they are. Makes great aligator bait. Then you shoot them too!
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A tame one would be a cool pet and great for terrorizing my local cats!
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Then you shoot them too! 
