Yep......southern fur is the first to drop in price and the last to rise in price. Always been that way.

Running your fingers thru a pelt from the upper 3rd of North America and its easy to see why.

But, hey...these southern beavers have thicker leather and never completely lose their underfur during summer....lol

Brian McMillan used to say, “you’re only as good as your last sale.”

We are not there yet and this was long overdue.

How about them lynx cats today? Westerns averaged more than double what they did in March of '25. Central cats tripled their Avg of a year ago. In fact, the high western cat for 2025 sold for slightly less than what the average was today for that category $1550 vs $1557. Same story with Centrals...at around $330

I can hardly sit down I'm so excited about my cats for June. Sure glad the cat buyers overlooked them at Glenn's Ferry. They could of had them for $175!

Goodness!

I don't recall a Central bobcat average sale price of $320+ at an international auction in my lifetime.

Pretty good price for stale goods. It was obvious by the cat prices being paid in the country that the cats would sell higher. There are private orders pushing the market higher. There were a lot of 8 cats sold for $4100 each. As we can see by this that the buyers in the country who paid $3000 for them were only doing it for their ego.

I was listening when they got to the Centrals and expected prices to drop down to the low $100 and something, when they worked it up to around $300 for the hammer I was stunned...lot after lot. Went back to the catalog to see the grades. Didn't make no sense! That finally gives southern trappers something to look forward to next year.

Who knows, maybe even Savell will try to recall how to put up a cat.