Although I trapped with my dad in the late 70s ( I was 8when I started in 78) we didn’t really have coyotes per se like we do now in south central Illinois.
What were coyote prices at that particular time?

1977 My dad and I averaged $110.00 with a top of $145.00 on 65.High country Colorado coyotes. Sold in Colorado

I know a friend that trapped some in 82 and he only got
2 dollars each .

During the boom yotes were not all that high in Eastern SD a fox was worth more in fact coons, mink and fox were higher then a yote I can’t remember what badgers brought back then.

Fox $60, male mink $45 same as a coon yote $35 rats $6.50

Can’t remember yotes but remember 70 dollar reds and 40 dollar coons

I was in Flagstaff AZ in 86 and 87, in 86 early hight country coyotes averaged 30 , after Christmas they realy dropped about a 15 average. Gray fox held out to about a 30 average in 86 and about half that in 87.

Same. I grew up in Indiana and never recall a coyote in the area. Sure cleaned up on coons and rats backs then.

Averaged $101 one of them late 1970's years.

Mid to late '70's they seemed to average in the $35 vicinity here in upper Michigan.That's not say they didn't spike above that a time or two,around '81,'82 they shot up to $75 one winter if they had"clear white bellies".Our timber coyotes are pretty coarse,nothing like the silkies they have out west.Fox were king here price wise.

Coyotes were mostly non-existent in central & western New York
in the mid to late 1970's when I fox trapped both reds & greys
around Syracuse and Canandaigua, N.Y.

There were plenty of coyote present in the northern zone N.Y. areas of
the Tughill Plateau & the Adirondacks but they were then referred to
as "brush wolves". There were really no numbers of coyote jn the
central & western N.Y. Finger Lakes region until the mid to late 1980's

Reds were $45 & greys $35 in 1976. Coon were $20 and rats were $5 nose count.

By 1978 I was averaging $100 on Reds & $85 on Greys
at the OTA auction in North Bay, Ontario.

Coon were $45 to $50 and rats were $11 and count 'em.

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In the mid 70's I worked at the local bait shop where the fur buyer would stop by once a month. We rarely seen a coyote back then so having someone bring one in was something. I recall one time two younger guys buying furs instead of the regular guy when a trapper brought one in put up. After the seller left I recall one of the buyers criticizing the other for paying $45 for that coyote.

Back then everything was worth something making it a great way to make a living for a while a good time to be alive.

78 and 79 seemed to be the peak if I remember correctly. Coyotes were never in demand as high as other long haired furs. Fox at $70-80, coons at $30-40. I remember selling 250 rats at $7.85 and they went up even more after that. That was about two months pay at my regular job. These were country buyer prices on the carcass. Crazy times.

The value of a dollar in 1978 is $4.72 today. So a $40 coon was worth $190 in todays dollars. But don't think you were going to go out and catch them like you can today, EVERYONE was trying to get them in every way possible, legal and illegal.

I got better prices for them from NAFA a few years ago. I did not sell any until the 80's and remember $40.00 for the best ones

Caught very few during thaT time country side was full of red fox Great time to be a dirt trapper 30 0r 35 is what i remember for yotes

I do remember quite well my dad having a lot of robbed fur as well as traps… it’s a very good thing that my dad never caught any of them… my dad was a very large and strong man 6’2 250 pounds solid muscle,,, worked road construction and knew how to handle himself

Every road bridge had a few guys setting it and a lot more guys checking those traps. Lots of water along the MN border so rats and mink were plentiful it seemed like every field with a little standing water had a hut and a mink on it. Caught mink in a lot of dry land sets for coons in places I did not expect to catch one.

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I averaged those two prices.

Kenny k in mid 80s I averaged $4 finished, about where they are today but less in todays dollars of course.

78-79 I might have sold coyotes for $30-$40, in central Oregon. Cats were around $100-$150. I remember $9 for nutria that were 28" and over. Could sell all we could catch.