That is really cool, it looks like it turned out super well! :D I am hoping to tan some raccoon hides this fall. I may try your method since the brain tan was such a failure last time I tried haha.

I wish it was legal to use fish traps here in the states (edit: well, to be fair it's the state government that bans is, not the federal government). We're only allowed to use rod & reel or a trotline, and I don't like the trotlines because they swallow the hooks so often, so I can't let some go if I catch too many. Well I mean I guess I could, but they'd just die, yanno.

Of course, our hunting/fishing regulations here are not really about managing the wildlife. They function more as a way to most efficiently enable the state government to make money from it.