Taxidermist, let's show off our work

[fishmounter]

Here's a picture of a crappie skin mount I just finished up and thought I'd post a picture of it.

[Swimmer]

I had my state record largemouth bass mounted by Artistic Anglers. It took a year and a half -- they said they had to make a new mold due to the size of the fish -- but the recreation was 1.5 inches short of the actual size of the fish. That was measured by me with a tape measure along the curvature so no excuses. A beautiful artistic air-brush job, but I'm disapointed in the dimensions.

Caviat: The fish was caught using a one inch Rapala fishing for Spring Crappies before Bass season so the fish was released and photographed. But I know what lake she reside in!

[Burchoid]

I had my state record largemouth bass mounted by Artistic Anglers. It took a year and a half -- they said they had to make a new mold due to the size of the fish -- but the recreation was 1.5 inches short of the actual size of the fish. That was measured by me with a tape measure along the curvature so no excuses. A beautiful artistic air-brush job, but I'm disapointed in the dimensions.

Caviat: The fish was caught using a one inch Rapala fishing for Spring Crappies before Bass season so the fish was released and photographed. But I know what lake she reside in!

1.5" short? I woulda asked for my money back.

[leech~~]

I had my state record largemouth bass mounted by Artistic Anglers. It took a year and a half -- they said they had to make a new mold due to the size of the fish -- but the recreation was 1.5 inches short of the actual size of the fish. That was measured by me with a tape measure along the curvature so no excuses. A beautiful artistic air-brush job, but I'm disapointed in the dimensions.

Caviat: The fish was caught using a one inch Rapala fishing for Spring Crappies before Bass season so the fish was released and photographed. But I know what lake she reside in!

If your sending in pix's for a repro I would suggest taking some with it by a ruler.

[Swimmer]

[jwhjr]

You know, that's not a bad idea, but we were lucky to get any pictures at all...wanted to be quick about it and had a disposable 35mm. Still, it's not for Artistic Anglers to question the dimensions given by a customer. 23.5" x 18.5". I'll try to post a pic of the mount if I can figure out the photobucket thing.

How about a picture of the actual fish? I'm more interested in that.

[Burchoid]

How about a picture of the actual fish? I'm more interested in that.

Yes please.

[Swimmer]

I posted those pix in 2006 if you want to do a search. Otherwise, everything is on the other computer that no longer has internet. If you find the pix, you will see they are kind of rotten, though you can see the ridiculous relative size of the fish. I managed to clean up the contrast in photoshop later. Still hoping to get the mount pics off my iphone.

[AndersonOutdoors]

Hear some fish done by my Buddy

[Swimmer]

Hear some fish done by my Buddy

Is your buddy a pro? Those bulls look very nice.

[AndersonOutdoors]

Him and his Dad have been at it for a long time now,i bring him all my fish

and bears and refer him to my clients.I got a bunch of his work on my web page.

[bassfshin24]

Hey guys...i have a question for you guys....so my dog chewed on my bass mount and took some of the back tail off of it...also he chewed the fins off the bottome of the belly. Is this something that you guys could fix? Not sure if this is even possible but this mount was my dads and means a lot to me and would love if i could get it fixed.

[AndersonOutdoors]

Yes it is fixable,but also need to see it

[bassfshin24]

Hey AndersonOutdoors....Where are you located at? I am in the St. Paul area. Do you have an email I can send pictures to?

[AndersonOutdoors]

its in my profile,[email protected]

[jigglestick]

are there any taxidermists that can do the gold coloring on crappies like on the crappies we find on dark stained water lakes?

or as seen in this fish?

I am going to have this one mounted for my son, but I want to see pictures of finished products before I make a decision as to where I'm going to take it.

thanks!

[AndersonOutdoors]

Check him out jigglestick,he does great work

[jigglestick]

ummm...."check him out" who?

[AndersonOutdoors]

my pm didnt go through [Note from admin: Your post has been edited. Please read forum policy before posting again. Thank you.]

, i got new stuff of his on my HSOforum if you check out mine in my profile, i trusted him with my 1.4 pound female, came out great.

[Bigtom]

Here are a few sunfish and northerns I had got done. Perch are in the makings.

[fishmounter]

bassfshin24,

Your smallmouth can repaired, it'll need to be stripped of the paint job, replaces fins and repainted, check out my HSOforum at alaska kim's taxidermy and you'll see a smallmouth that I stripped, replaced broken fins and repainted under my fish section.

[outdoor ran]

If you had five guys measure the same fish you would probaly come up with five different measurements. Everyone seems to measure fish different. Did you measure the back side of your state record repo? If it has a c-curve facing out it will be shorter on the frontside then the back. Same thing happens with a skin mount. Guy brings in a 30" walleye and wants a headout mount. He measures it when its done on the front side and its 29" and its 31" on the back. Its still the same fish he brought in.

Some nice looking mounts guys.

[muc33]

www.almbergtaxidermy.com Brian does great work and will take that very photo and make the coloring to match.

[SSSTaxidermy]

A kids first fish I did for him. I love doing mounts for kids / youths. The look on their faces when thet step into my shop to pick up their mount is nothing short of priceless!

[reinhard1]

i'd say that's some fine work and memory for a lifetime. good luck.