If you are on private property, the guide says you can shoot any coon doing, or about to do damage. The way I see it is that coon in your "fox" trap is doing damage to the fox set, so I would shoot it!! Do they still have the law that says you can't set a coon trap within 100 ft distance of a waterway until muskrat and mink season is open? I hated that law because it made it hard to legally set traps where they are most effective, along creeks and rivers. I haven't trapped in a few years ,are the hides worth anything anymore?