Piled it up for loading. 10 red fox, 9 coyote, 19 muskrat,14 coon(I think), 25 Beaver (7 not in picture, frozen in grease. GFW said only a couple bucks difference for all the work) and one sealed Bobcat. Will post a tally of what I sell and what I took for them later today. I know everyone wants to know what fur is worth but nobody knows until sale time. Wish me luck....

Good luck bud. May it be worth your gas.

Prices not the best. Guess that is what it is. Didn't feel like hauling stuff home to put in bags for nafa next week. They still have 3 fox of mine from last year unsold. The bobcat was a little disappointing. Especially since my buddy sold his yesterday for $100 on carcass. All together I covered my gas and a little extra. Good thing I don't trap for.a living. Gotta say it is one of the few hobbies I have that has any monetary return. Still have about 3 phone unds of castor to sell also.

I am not an authority. I try to just sit and observe. But that price for a bobcat seems like they robed you. Every thing looked alright for what you can expect.

got a close up pic of that finished cat? Nice $12 coon and $5 rat!

Don't have any pictures of the cat. His explanation was the belly was narrow and that is where the money is. He told me to take it home if I thought I could get more but I didn't. The buyers name was Brice. He said if the belly would have been wider he would have about doubled the price. Guess my wife only gets a $90 Christmas present instead of 150. Lol.... I didn't sell because I needed money, good thing too.

Ouch! Thank you for the information, Strike2x.

Makes me glad I shifted most (but not all!) of my focus from fur trapping this season,

$7.00 reds? Thats exactly why I was releasing mine.

Great catch though, youre definetely a well-rounded trapper.

-NC

Thanks for sharing. It could be worse in my opinion. GFW does not pay much more for put up beaver. I heard they prefer them frozen because they are very efficient in putting them up at headquarters. I still put them up and just suffer two dollar increase when I sale to GFW. Good looking lot of fur you have there sir.

Nice mixed bag of furs. Those $2 coyotes hurt!!!!! Had 1 go for .25 a few years ago at NAFA.

Waiting to hear Beav's opinion.

$50 yotes helped you big time

Pretty nice looking Northern beaver for a $7 and change average.

That's what I thought too wolfer.Someone is making some money.

its had to say based on the picture but for most everything you had I think you would have did better at the state fur sale last Saturday at clare...

Gfw won't pay much for beaver. I think just trying to cater to the hatter market. Sold them 10 put up for 10$ a piece that we're large or bigger. Also sold 19 med or smaller that we're frozen. My sort must have been off cause I got 9.00 for 2 in that bunch.

Utah cats are different then Michigan cats.
Until you’ve seen them it’s hard to understand

The reds all come from my mom's back yard. I used to trap a golf course for them also and may again just because it is fun. The ones from my mom's is like a challenge to see if I can get more than last year. I have taken about 50 from there in the past 4 years. Sets in the same spots every year. I should have held onto the Beaver and sent to nafa. The $2.00 coyote was not even as big as the fox. Don't know why I even skinned it. As far as the Bobcat, at least I got one in my 10 day window. Not everyone that had a tag can say that. I think the coolest thing about trapping is getting an animal that roams the woods to step on a very small pan. I have to thank David Duncan for introducing me to trapping some 40+ years ago. I always enjoyed the outdoors but trapping keeps.me.more in tune with my surroundings. Funny how I can spot coyote scat on a 2 track while going 35 or so running my line.

My stuff was not ready last week. I took 3 fox, the cat, 4 coon and 6 Beaver off boards at 9 this morning and if I would have bad time a few of those would have stayed a couple days more.

You had some good looking fur there Strike.Nice mixed bag.
Just go trap some more when the price is down,lol

Yep! I'm not a golfer but sort of the same thing, a good golfer can start with this little 2 inch ball 300-400 yards away from a 4 inch hole and in 3-5 swings get it in there.

We certainly don't have those color of beavs around here. Nice looking stuff.

P.S. Can you guys in MI sell your skulls? If you can, clean them up and you can make some more cash from them.

Northern MI fur I assume
19 rats averaged $2.02 which to me says you have some typical smaller rats like we do in areas of northern WI as well.
You sold 9 coons (put up) at $6.50 per coon. You indicated that you thought you had 14 did you not have 14 or were there 5 that were not sold?

Bobcats in our region don't have the spots or the color as to many of the western cats. I would not be as concerned regarding a $90 cat as I would the lower prices for the staple goods that are common in our area. Some day that will turn around hopefully.

Bryce