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I can say that the mounts that I paid those prices for still look just as new as the day I got them back. He used a rubberized material for the fins that doesn't dry out like you see on some older mounts. I don't care what anyone says, replicas are quite a bit more expensive than skin mounts and that is why I didn't have a 48" muskie mounted a few years ago because I insisted on releasing it. The pictures and newspaper article will have to be enough to keep that memory alive.

It may be a self- proclaimed term like my uncle who makes wine with a group of friends and calls himself the head "wine master".

This was dated back in 2009 from an experienced taxidermist in Denver. Prices vary, but here is one taxidermists prices. He is a Grand Master Taxidermist. Bass 3-6 pounds---$285 Bass over 7 pounds---$300 Crappie any size---$235 Blue Gill any size---$225 Walleye, Pike, Musky---$12 an inch $200 minimum Striped Bass---$13 an inch Trout, Salmon---$14 an inch Reproductions---$16 an inch Epoxie Finish---$35-$50

Haha really? Like I said it has been a long time since I had a mount done and that was back in 2003 and the rate was about the same as the one in 97 so I didn't think the rate would have changed all that much. I paid around $325 I think for my 31" walleye and around $450 for my 33 1/2" coho.

Yeah it's by the inch. For skin mounts, trout and salmon are usually about $2 more per inch so you are looking at anywhere from $9- $12 per inch but I have never priced out a replica but again it depends on who you go to. The guy that did my mounts in Camillus I think got out of the business but he was awesome and reasonable.

Wow Lowballer, so that was the rainbow your grandson caught on a Rapala?! That is going to be a beautiful mount and a fish he will never forget. I caught an 18" brookie when I was 10 with a bobber and a worm fishing under a fallen tree in Nine Mile Creek because I didn't have waders yet while my friend and his dad waded upstream without me. They came back to find me with that fish on a stringer. It sat in my freezer for years because my parents didn't want to have it mounted and I am still sad about it 'til this day without even a picture to show for it but what a great memory that was.

Wow Lowballer, so that was the rainbow your grandson caught on a Rapala?! That is going to be a beautiful mount and a fish he will never forget. I caught an 18" brookie when I was 10 with a bobber and a worm fishing under a fallen tree in Nine Mile Creek because I didn't have waders yet while my friend and his dad waded upstream without me. They came back to find me with that fish on a stringer. It sat in my freezer for years because my parents didn't want to have it mounted and I am still sad about it 'til this day without even a picture to show for it but what a great memory that was.

Haha no that recipe was for a tasty cedar plank not the fish, but they do have a pearl inside their skull located between the eyes

My first coho in 1997

Yep big sheepshead. Don't be fooled by the size, they get huge in Lake O. I caught a 12# in my kayak trolling for walleyes last year. I thought it was a laker in only 30 fow, couldn't believe the size of it and it bent the hook of my plug.

I had my first male coho mounted and it was in prime spawning mode with a huge kype at 18 lbs and even though I have caught hundreds of kings and coho's since then,I don't regret it since it is a beautiful mount.

I'm totally addicted. When a rod fires with a big fish on while paddling it's a total rush. Last year was my first year of yak fishing and it produced a 9# walleye, 39" tiger muskie and 25# king. This year started with a 12# brown at fair haven with it. It's a work- out paddling up to 7 miles in a few hours but it is worth it to me

haha that's why I fish out of a kayak....that and a lack of a few thousand more dollars

It helps when fish are on the screen often and not taking. Eventually something will cooperate. It's easier to hang it up when you feel like you are fishing in space. The challenge is what keeps us coming back

I had another slow day as well but did get a nice 34" northern to the kayak in the SR estuary before my knot slipped at the lure and swam away with my favorite hot n tot in its mouth as I was reaching for my camera. I won't let the frustration get to me because I know all it takes is one good day to make all the others forgotten history. Better fishing is still yet to come

Wow nice fish! I still haven't caught a king over 30#.

Yeah I was marking large pods of fish in my kayak this weekend only in 105' or less. When I went out to 120' I didn't see anything like that.

the one I had on hit a black/silver w glow NK spoon about 10 minutes in trolling about 3.2 NW right through a pod of bait and hooks

I still can't believe I had to lose that fish, it was seriously heavy. Running a 4 oz. snap weight just barely behind the kayak about 60' down with the lure 20' behind it and the fish hadn't stripped much line yet and did a nose dive straight under the kayak and they still got me with what I am guessing must have been a dipsey 'cuz they were close enough that we were talking back and forth while my rod was doubled over clicking out drag. I didn't want to be a d@#k and tell them to back off but at the time I was just psyched to have a fish on with such a simple rig.

Holy cow combat fishing out there right now! Calm winds allowed me to to get out to the wall this morning before the fleet arrived and hooked up 60' down with a 20' lead to my NK spoon off a snap weight and had a visitor roll up from behind me as I was fighting it below the yak. before too long I was being trolled towards Canada and realized I was now wrapped up on one or more of their lines after they passed me. They got my only snap weight but at least got my favorite spoon back. Must have been a sight to see a kayak a mile out hooked into a large fish but give some space out there guys, I don't take up much room and not a lot of line out. Marking lots of bait and good hooks among it anywhere from 40' -80' down over 110'. Tried vertical jigging a little until traffic got heavy and headed back to camp so not to disrupt any boats paths.