[garyc71]

This is a 9 pound Largemouth Bass skin mount I recently completed.

 

[BowMan45]

Very nice [up]

 

[barebackjack88]

Nice [up] That thing was a monster [eek]

 

[ub1243jp]

nice. skin mounts on scaled fish are the way to go.
fiberglass looks like hell for scaled fish.

 

[gobblergetter]

Nice Fish and great job ![up]

 

[rutnbk]

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[BROWNING 10 GA]

beautiful work,looks awesome [up]

 

[runum n gunum]

Nice fish and great work[up]

 

[passthru125]

great job on the mount[up] where was this fish taken?

 

[garyc71]

great job on the mount where was this fish taken?
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Thanks for the complements, the fish was taken at Assunpink.

 

[Cleancut]

Nice mount![up]

 

[croallgame]

Nice fish[up]Looks good Gary [up]

 

[DROPTINE69]

great job

 

[Sirsewalot]

fiberglass looks like hell for scaled fish.

And you base your opinion on this exactly how?[spy]

 

[remingtonman1108]

awesome mount[up]

 

[8ptrFred]

awesome job!!! I've never seen a replica I would appreciate on my wall. I'll always go by ways of the real thing.

 

[ub1243jp]

And you base your opinion on this exactly how?

looking at mounts, many, many, mounts. fiberglass looks ok for smooth skin, trout, tuna, marlin, swords, ect..
but i would never, never waste money on a glass scaled fish. they just don't look real.

 

[Bowhunter22]

Excellent mount [up]. What does a mount like that cost?

 

[Sirsewalot]

they just don't look real.

Says you, from an inside the industry perspective, repros are definitely the way to go, provided, you actually use those that are made correctly and not blown out of molds that should have been retooled 15 years ago. There's more than a few companies out there with repros that fit that criteria. On a plus side, you don't deal with shrunken heads, overextended gill flaps, emaciated gills and gill rakers, distorted scale patterns, and just plain incorrect fitting forms with misplaced skins wrapped on them, but hey, what do I know. If I didn't know better I'd say your best friend is a taxidermist who just can't bring himself to use top of the line repros like he says he'd use.