My wife called and told me my boys had a large boar coon this morning. Now they are up to 3.

I think my total for coon this year is around 12 or so. Not a big line. Funny thing is every single one I’ve caught has been a boar. Also I have the same issues as the original poster, on one farm last year I caught 13 coon and this year I only got one from there.

I would have to say way down here in my area of PA. Ran a small mink line and only remember seeing any kind of coon tracks at one spot. The others were void of any streamside.

According to the research, racoons are susceptible to both canine AND feline distemper. Different diseases for different hosts. Plus they are a major vector of rabies the farther east of the Mississippi River you go. Not so much west of it (almost rare but not quite). In 2012 (the year of the drought) coon #'s plummeted in Nebraska as shown in the 2013 and 2014 harvest data. while everyone bemoaned the EHD with the deer in the corn belt,,, the coon were also susceptible to a midge transferring feline distemper in many spots (dried/drying up water holes). Lots of dead carcass coons found while fellows were hunting and trapping. Along with the high pelt prices they (remaining population) were hunted and trapped pretty heavy until about the 2016 season when prices started declining. But to answer the original question......................... since about 2018 I can't keep them out of my coyote sets - this year is the worst!................. the mike

I think it was last year when our Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife was dropping some type of pellets from the air in an effort to combat rabies in our coon population. I don't know how widespread the dispersal was but they were dropping right over where I trap. We have a ridiculous number of raccoon in this area. I don't target them but pick up an incidental here and there.

Not here. They're a 'dime a dozen', but nobody wants them

A lot of coon here, so the diseases have not hit hard yet. They get Parvo as well as the two distempers. With our coons bringing about $3.50 averages in the grease with 10-20% out we won't see too much harvest in the near future. When watching the you tube videos if one waited here until November 10th and trapped until Christmas and left about 30% of the coons in the woods and finished them and shipped them one might average 7-8 bucks. That is not encouraging.

Bryce