I like your style Dirt. These days a trapper has to look at all their options and try to make an informed decision.

Dirt - some times you can’t believe the FH color descriptions. I looked at every single wolverine picture in the March catalog. And in my opinion, there are any number of medium and dark wolverine in that catalog. I will admit I am not a wolverine expert, not even close but when the Diamond by the rump is a dark rusty brown, that is NOT a pale wolverine!!!!

After a quick glance through the March catalog, it seems to me that FH has made some adjustments to their wolverine colors.

New name - old name

Pale - dark
Extra pale - medium
Extra extra pale - pale
Extra extra extra pale - extra pale.

That is just my opinion. Take it for what it’s worth.

It has always been that way here.

Wissmiss your input is always appreciated. I’m watching the wolverine prices now as FHA has now become an option for selling wolverine with their slowly improving price levels.

Those that live in Alaska have always had that advantage of a price bubble little affected by the realities of the general fur trade. If FHA can match that sez good things about the current health of the fur trade imho.

A lot of the time there is a large price drop between differing grades, sizes, or colors. Sometimes you only want to send certain size grade or color to FHA and market the rest a more profitable way. It appeared pale (dark) wolverines were the least popular color at FHA.

Thanks, hope it works out for you! Decided to run a quick muskrat line , with my spring beaver trapping and see if that heats up in the next sale but for me FHA is about the only game in town. Jealous of your options sometimes!

It is interesting that in some provinces they seem to have fairly popular trapping organizations and yet it appears they don't offer members an Auction. At times these sales can be much better options on the less popular industry species. Western States of the U.S. seem to have done a good job at this.

FHA is the old OTA.
OTA separated into FHA-(fur sales) and OFMF (political wing)
It is enshrined in the OFMF constitution that there will be no involvement of any board members with any fur sales company nor any entity involved in fur marketing

So board members can’t sell to Groeny?

OFMF board members can sell their fur to anyone they want.
They just cannot sit on the board of or work for any fur marketing buisness including FHA.

Agreed, I'd love to see them improve their MBPS speed so photo's don't take so long to download. I can go make a cup of coffee, read the morning emails and still have to wait to look at pictures that are downloading at a snails pace. They need at least 500 MBPS speed when so many are looking at photo's to bid on fur, or give their broker an idea which lots they like, then he can inspect them. Waiting for one single photo to look at takes 3-4 minutes.

Maybe it’s your computer. Photos load just fine for me. Not instantly but 3-4 seconds, not 3-4 minutes.