[Diana in Wisconsin]

Those are some lovely looking pelts; they all look VERY healthy.

Too bad raccoon is not paying much these days; I think in our state (WI) Muskrat pays the most.

Fur trading is definitely down since the Salad Days of Marquette and Joliet, LOL!

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Growing up my brother used to work a trap line for muskrat. There was a lot of marsh in the nearby lakes.

He also played hockey and married the daughter the owner of the Grocery store he worked at as a meat cutter.

He adjusted pretty well after my parents moved to Wisconsin.

[riverrunner]

Not even worth skinning and fleshing.

It was fun when one could make money trapping.

[Hot Tabasco]

Too bad raccoon is not paying much these days;

A number of years ago I met a guy who used to trap them at an area north of Detroit where professional pest control companies used to release them.

He would then kill them, throw them in a freezer and then on Sundays, take them to the Great Lakes Crossing where a furrier used to park and purchase the hides or dead coons from guys like the one I talked to. The furrier actually preferred the whole carcass since he would skin them himself.

The guy I spoke with said he would get approx. $25 and more per coon, depending on the quality if its pelt.