When I was a kid my dad and I used to hunt coons on the Snake river Hells canyon ,,Oxbow up river, some dang big ones there, Remember one almost drowned a prize Running Walker, I used to bring Scooter [ boarder collie mut cross ] along just to kill the rattle snakes ,We hunted evenings generally get home at day light ,The KIDS dog saved that hound, coon crawled up on his head and hounds head and went it under water Scooter jumped in and crawled on coons head and he went under water , they both ended up under water then here come Scooter last time we saw the coon he was swimming to the Idaho side ... We would throw rocks in the creek
behind the house and he would go fetch them back,, We killed lots of coons just didn't know you could eat them. Probably tastes like Chicken ,,,