Ok here is the story of my first catch.

 I had been coon hunting a few times and I decided to catch a coon and try to get into coon hunting.  I saved and saved and bought a homemade trap from my friend. I set it by an old catfish pond behind my house. I put a piece of jelly toast in the trap for bait. I went to check it everyday for about 2 weeks and never got anything. I was about ready to give up on trapping and coon hunting all together and focus on getting me a deer. The day before Christmas Eve my little brother and I went deer hunting behind our house. About dark we was walking around this big cane patch and I saw two deer run out about 50 yards away. I shot and missed both of them. So I decided that I may as well check my trap while I was down there, so I walked over and there was a huge coon laying in my trap asleep. He was a big boar coon that weighed about 25 pounds. And I have been hooked ever since. That is the story of my first coon.