Thread: Possum Trapper

Hi Guys,

I am new to the forum, joined to hopefully ask a few experienced possum trappers a few questions. Hopefully someone can tell me where is best to post.

At the moment I average about 30 possums a day with a 40 trap trap line, the bush I am in is private land and I feel has the potential for 60+ possums a day with 100 traps which I am in the process of setting up so I can attack it hard in the winter. I want to skin these possums but I am lacking the knowledge of if I can skin every possum, I find a lot of skin buyers are hesitant to talk about skins to people who haven't skinned much, I know I can skin the possum with the sleeve method but I don't know which possums I should be skinning. I want to make the most amount of money I can from this obviously.

I see on a lot of buyers pages there may be measurements for the skins that they buy but I don't see small measurements so does this mean I am only to skin the large possums and pluck the smaller possums? or can I also get paid for the small skins too?

Thanks