Game, hide, fur auction nets $11,764 for IDFG

COEUR d'ALENE - Wolf skulls were popular.

So were otters, a bear hide rug and a whole mountain lion.

This year the annual Idaho Fish and Game Hide and Fur Auction held Saturday at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds brought in $11,764.

Hides, furs, antlers, horns and fishing and camping gear that was confiscated or forfeited to the state was up for bid.

Otters, all 27 of them, averaged $44.44 each. Twenty-four fishing rods brought a total of $225 Wolf skulls, 17, averaged $63.82 each, and that included several that were broken or missing teeth.

The top selling prices were:

• A whole mountain lion at $290

• A bear hide rug at $285

• A wolf pelt at $270

• Two other whole mountain lions at $260 each

• A large set of 6x6 elk antlers on the skull plate at $260

• A mountain lion hide and skull at $250

• 5x5 elk shoulder mount at $250

• A 6x6 set of elk antlers on skull plate at $250

• Another 6x6 set of elk antlers on skull plate at $240

"The antlers on skull plates, deer, elk and moose, were popular regardless of size," according to a press release from the Fish and Game.

Twenty bundles of loose antlers brought from $130 to $170 each.

By item, the top sellers were either large antlers, or cats on the carcass. Six whole bobcats averaged $105, with a top of $200. The whole lions, or lions hides with skulls, averaged $195 with a top of $290.

The funds will go into Fish and Game's general fund.