Already sorting through fur its going be a huge one. Sorry it didn't copy over from excel very clean but I am swamped with broken water pipes and don't have time to clean it up. Over 1,200 bobcats consigned and getting more calls by the day. Here is the schedule.

2025 Idaho Trappers Association March 7th-9th Fur Sale Schedule
Friday
7:00 AM Volunteers Set up tables and tent
9 AM - 7 PM All Check in fur
3-4 PM Tim Conant Coyote Calling
Afternnoon Idaho Fish and Game Selling furbuyer licenses
4-5 PM Kelly Lee Coyote Snaring
5-6 PM Gary Cromp Cage Trapping
6-?? PM Chuck Hedin Cat Trapping roundtable. Chuck literally has trapped thousands of cats over last 65 years.

Saturday
7-10 AM All Taking fur in. Be here before 10AM or you miss out!
Morning Idaho Fish and Game Selling furbuyer licenses
8 AM - 2 PM Idaho Fish and Game Wolf trapper Cert Class (must be pre registered) Free ITA membership after completion
10-11 AM Angel Lovan Rabbit put up
11-12 AM Larry Bennett (MT) Marten Trapping
12-1 PM Clayton Wetzstein Coyote/Wolf Trapping
1-2 PM Mike Ward Wolf trapping/snaring
2-3 PM Rusty Kramer (Do not miss this) General Membership Meeting DO NOT MISS. Grizz lawsuit, convention update, fisher project, banquet update, trap rule changes, general ??. Facebook Live Event.
3-4 PM All Bingo sponsored by Rocky Mtn Fur and Don Clifford Fur. Big Prizes! Kids Prizes!
4-5 PM Lane Abraham Cat snaring
5-6:30 PM All Live Auction of donated items w/ George Kortum. Please bring a donation. Don't miss!!
7:00 PM All Frosty McWilliams Band (Sponsored by Mac's Trapping Supplies)
Evening All All bids in from fur buyers

Sunday Who Demo
10:00 AM All If you have a minimum on your fur you must be ready!!
10-11 AM Skinning Contest BYOS!!! Contact Angel to get signed up!!!!
11-Noon Eric Saltzman Craft trade.
Noonish All Bids read. Fur shagged. No sales collected
After Noon All Help break tables down. We need help!

Vendors
Randy Shuff Beaver tail leather products
Saturday Morning Moyle Tannery
Camping spots available but no water available due to weather. Payment to the fairgrounds.

ttt

Thank you, sounds like a good one.

ttt

Starts today.

They were already putting shipped in fur on the tables yesterday. I heard they had 450 cats on the tables first thing this morning.

They really need to find bigger facilities. The items are already in multiple buildings. Not criticizing, just saying. When goods get that spread out it is difficult to keep an eye on everything.

Hope enough buyers show up to make it worth the shippers time and effort.

Still plenty of space left, but the line outside is getting long. Going to be a busy afternoon today and morning tomorrow. On our way home. Keep us posted.

Is each cat sold separately? If not, how do they know which lot is which when they are so close together like that. Just curious.

They mark each fur in the lot with a colored zip tie.

Look at all those bobcats....... Very nice

i have some stuff out there black rats open with tail on and reg and black rats some tanned fur and put up redfox

Thanks for sharing the pictures!
There was a gentleman last year that went through and videoed all the fur.
That sure was enjoyable to watch! Hopefully someone can do that again this year!
Can't wait to see how it goes! Thanks again idaho trapping association!
Mnratman

Dropped my cats this morning
That row she and to the left of her were full when we left
Heard that there will be over 1200

Does anyone know who the contact is to ship there or where you ship to ? I always wanted to ship to a western state just to see how they would do with the craft buyers .

Tommie, go to the Idaho Trappers Association web page. It tells you how to consign items for auction/sale.

Idaho trappers have 2 sales each year. Mid January and early March. They tend to attract a fair number of craft buyers. Craft buyers tend to buy small quantities, so if you send a lot number of cats, lot them in small lots. 2-3 skins per lot.

Colorado trappers also accept shipped in fur.

Rusty - the guy that runs the Idaho sales - is going to be VERY busy for the next couple of weeks. You might want to wait a while before you contact him.

1400 plus bobcats and still checking in fur

Going to be a good sale, Best of luck to all.

Any one at the sale in person? How much fur? Who is there for buyers? Any updates would be appreciated.

Hope everyone’s fur does well!!!!

I'm here at the sale, seen quite a few people with bidding sheets. The book is thick, a total of 8,198 lots for auction. I'll admit I'm new so I'm unfamiliar with the buyers. Heard someone say they were up to 1,600 bobcat.

That sale tends to attract a lot of “craft” buyers. Looking for items other than raw fur. Probably 8-12 raw fur buyers there. Most likely less than 6 who will be major players. imo

I know the sale is sealed bid. How do they handle the “bid reading”.? Post it? Read out load? Give each seller a slip with their bids on it? Multiple ways to do “bid reading”. Each sale is a bit different.

Any updates?? According to Rusty’s schedule, things should start happening in about an hour. Can’t wait to hear what the top cat is.

I’m thinking $2,000.00 or more.

They hand you your paperwork pretty much the same as OTC. You tell their office people what to do with lots that didn't make your minimum.

This picture is posted on the ITA facebook page. I hope it's legal to repost it here. If not, please delete. Says they had a record 1666 cats at the sale.

I assume all the heavyweight cat buyers are present, or represented?

Sure hope so I've got some skin in this game

Kortum is there. I’m sure Rocky Mountain is. Heard there was a cat buyer from Albuquerque. Probably others.

How bout Chris Lund, Wyoming Fur buyer haven't seen him post for quite some time.

That’s a lot of white and block spots!

wws

Update from the sale. They just finished clearing the no sales. Should start shagging soon. Gonna be a looooooong night!!

Hope prices are worth it.

$2228.37 was high cat price from what a buddy just texted to me. Be interesting to see what the averages were

That otta pay for a tank of gas and couple twinkys.

You do realize that top cat is all about ego and bragging rights. Just happened to be one single cat that stood out from all the rest.

Will be interesting to see the average, especially if they average all the cats together. Those Texas and Tennessee cats will drag the average down IF they sold.

The thing is, the past couple years, they've separated the cats out in groups; South Western, Central, Western and even Eastern and Western Oregon cats. Then they list the average for each group. It gives a better gauge of a true average. Most certainly the Western Cats will be the highest. Also the Nephi sale had 40 or 50 cats that came in over a $1000

That is good to know that they separate the cats by section. Do they use the CITES tags to sort, or some other method?

Is the cat marked going to decline?

Eventually

I wonder if it was one of Hunters cats

If Pappas was there or represented it will have helped.

If Kortum and Rocky Mountain are both there, could be interesting. Then you throw Pappas in the mix. And maybe add Groenwald’s cat buyer…….. sit back and watch the fun.

And you can’t forget about the unknown wild cards.

So, when can we expect to see some numbers?

Probably in 5-7 days. Their abacus has overheated and they are giving it a rest.

Sounds like they need a new tech person.
There must be some 12 year old around who could give them a hand.

I'm wondering where they displayed all that fur. The main hall at Genn's Ferry is not very big.

great sale ...top cat 2028 all big buyers were there

Wow. Looking forward to photos of that cat.

I heard the grease fur was displayed outside due to lack of room in the main building. Hope they had tables or at least tarps on the ground.

yes under big tents with tables worked great...huge sale

I would have thought wissmiss would have been at this sale.

Wissmiss is no longer actively participating in trapper fur sales. Health issues and old age have relegated me to being an observer.

It all ready has. The demand for alley and barn cat has slowed due to inactivity. The Chinese are consuming much more pork.

Almost all the good quality bobcats cat pelts end up in Greece.

Yeah,, I think Nancy mentioned something about those grease pelts. LOL

Okay......... ... I see what you did there.....

Some one in western oregon thinks they are being clever!!! Nice try Carl

It beats "ttt" doesn't it?

(It's Monday...we want results!)

Patience grasshopper

If it was an OTC sale, results would have been available last evening, once the last lot had been shagged.

Did OTC have over 8000 lots?
Give them some time I think this was one of
the largest sales in the country

Maybe watch the OTC sale post, wait there isn't one. Be patient grass hopper.

No, OTC did not have over 8000 lots!

But neither did ITA!!! Yes, there were lot numbers in the 8000 but that is because they have different sections, just like OTC

Raw fur gets one group of lot numbers. So does grease fur. So do antlers. So does tanned fur.

This sale even bobcats got their own section of lot numbers.

I don’t think you can comprehend how many lots 8000 would be. If each lot took up 12 inches, 8000 lots would be well over a mile of lots. There weren’t that many lots at GF.

Yes they had different lot numbers for each different animal
But each trapper had different numbers in each lot
Me for instance had 10 Cat's in 6 lots
When I walked through all the tables there were alot of
single lots, double lots and so on so when you total all those
there are alot of lots just for Cat's
I had 3 lots of beaver 2 lots of muskrat 5 lots of coyotes
2 lots of castor 1 lot of otter and my 6 lots of cats so that
totals 19 lots and that is just me

How many lots are you aloud for cats

I think for cats you're allowed to lot each one separately.

They used to say no more than 3 cat lots per trapper, they are more flexible than that, but discourage individual lots. We had twelve cats in six lots this year.

Idaho Trappers Association Top cat bought by Western Montana for $2,238. Sam Fitzpatrick is the trapper. Averages coming soon just double checking them to make absolute sure we are correct and Annie had flight to catch at noon today. More bobcat sale info.
-1662 total cats
-1,017 diff lots of cats
-over $2,000 - 1 cats
- over $1,700 - 14 cats
-over $1,500 - 38 cats
-over $1,000 - 158 cats and from 10 diff states
-1,017 different lots of cats
-top cat bought by West Mtn
-most cats bought by Colt Furs
- 11 diff buyers bought cats

Interesting stuff. Thanks Rusty!

I know you all have been waiting. Annie is currently in the Netherlands and got these to me. Couple notes, the "eastern" bobcat average is high because we put the Texas bobcats in that category. With 7 Texas cats going over a grand we should have put them in the SW category. Sorry it didn't transfer great from excel. Its 1 AM and still working through pile of fur not picked up.

March 2025 Idaho Trappers Association Fur Sale Averages Item Average High Bid Unit Offered Sold % Sold
Badger $26.88 $89.31 Count 122 117 96%
Beaver $20.26 $106.75 Count 533 522 98%
Bobcat, Eastern $306.05 $1,357.00 Count 177 147 83%
Bobcat, SW $526.46 $1,585.37 Count 184 182 99%
Bobcat, West $536.81 $2,228.37 Count 13041285 99%
Civet Cat $34.51 $48.99 Count 28 10 36%
Coyote $20.84 $56.00 Count 1038 887 85%
Ermine $4.94 $10.68 Count 152 134 88%
Fisher $57.00 $57.00 Count 3 1 33%
Fox, Cross $55.58 $61.31 Count 9 9 100%
Fox, Grey $24.03 $32.00 Count 186 160 86%
Fox, Red Eastern $20.03 $35.00 Count 124 124 100%
Fox, Red Western $21.89 $35.00 Count 207 195 94%
Fox, Swift/Kit $23.92 $25.75 Count 19 19 100%
Iguana $11.04 $11.04 Count 8 8 100%
Lynx $201.00 $226.00 Count 2 2 100%
Marten $50.13 $64.42 Count 548 534 97%
Mink $8.53 $36.78 Count 155 154 99%
Muskrat $2.21 $11.11 Count 1736 1701 98%
Nutria $1.51 $3.00 Count 117 108 92%
Opossum $2.10 $11.11 Count 76 41 54%
Otter $45.89 $89.89 Count 191 145 76%
Porky Hair $24.90 $45.92 Ounce 22.80 22.80 100%
Python Skin $31.29 $31.29 Count 4 4 100%
Raccoon $5.03 $23.15 Count 326 325 100%
Rockchuck $3.96 $8.67 Count 18 18 100%
Skunk $18.44 $103.15 Count 486 467 96%
Snake Skin $17.37 $20.53 Count 8 8 100%
Squirrel $3.29 $26.00 Count 288 282 98%
Squirrel Tails $0.31 $0.55 Count 79 79 100%
Turtle Shells $9.61 $12.42 Count 15 15 100%
Weasel $5.09 $6.08 Count 25 25 100%
Wolf $204.25 $225.50 Count 3 3 100%

Eastern reds averaged $20.03, not bad in today's market.

Good job Rusty and crew! $50 for lower 48 Marten is good, and eastern red fox sold for about double what some of the eastern sales brought. Cats look more than solid! And $20+ for western beaver is really good.