Just a curious question....how big would the striper have to be for you to have it mounted???:huh: Also, do any of you have any fish mounts now??? I do not.....yet!

50 - maybe a little smaller if there was a thoroughly encompassing struggle / story / memory

BLAH!... kodak for me... to me, fish were meant to be swiming, in the freezer, or on the stove/grill... hehe.. i have seen some really beautiful mounts .. most fish in the upper 40's or so... cant beat the real thing.. i've seen some fiberglass repoductions and have yet to see one that comes close to a bad mount.. but i've never caught a fish big enough to consider YA i'll mount this.. but if i had to i would want serious bragging rights so i'd want something oooh say over 55#'s..

We probably have seen mounted fish anywhere from 16 inches to 73 pounds.
I've seen some nice mounts of 30 pound fish (nice driftwood background, works of art actually).
I don't think I'd get one less than 50 pounds (a trophy) myself though.
I'm still hunting for my trophy... someday

Anything over the 60 mark would be fair game for mounting. Expensive proposition.

50 plus

Yeah...you are right! The expense alone is enough to put you in debt for awhile. It would have to be a pretty large and as JohnR says, "memorable" fish, to sink that kind of money into having a fish mounted! Any idea on how much a fiberglass mount goes for???

BF, how much is that kinda money? Wheather its big game or big fish....to me its worth it. A decent buck will run ya about $450- $550, I haven't had one done I think a bass is in that ball park. Although pictures are nice a mount is a whole other animal;).

Goose - double that.... Figure 700-1000 smackers for a Fifty

:eek: glad I own a nice cambra...lol 7 or 800 maybe, anything over that would take some serious convincing. Then she would want something expensive too:rolleyes:

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Easy there Goose...your taking what I said out of context!!! What I said was that that is a lot of money!!!!! If you don't think 400-700 dollars is alot of money, then you must be pretty well off. My point as restated is that if someone is going to spend...whatever it costs, $400.00, $1,000.00, whatever, then in order to justify the cost of the mount most people would want to make sure that the fish in question is a pretty special fish! Thats all!! Like you said, it would be worth it to you, and it would have to be worth it to anyone else!

Do any of you currently have a mounted fish hanging on your wall at home????

I'd mount a fish over 50... I had 2 Largemouths done that I caught when I was a kid 5.5# I caught when I was 8 and and 8# 14oz that I caught when I was 13. Mommy and Daddy paid for those but the deciding factor for me now that i'd have to pay for it would be if I could see a recently swallowed roll of 100 dollar bills sticking out of it's gullet. Other than that I usually have a camera and scale I'd just snap a few photos and put it back for one of you bastages to mount! I Think i'd do that anyway.....

-Dave

i think id rather pay $400-700 and have a 50+# fish mounted on my wall than a Van Staal

I think it would have to be at least 60". I thought about it this summer with a 47" but that thought didn't last too long. I figured i could get a lot of good pictures at least. Here's a tip: Don't let your neighbors wife take the photos!!! 1/3 are people and fish, 2/3 is sky.
My roommate Steve is being pompous and refusing to admit that he would mount one under any circumstances...unless it was 8' long. He's a funny guy.


Seth

My wife won a tournment with a 40#
& that bass got mounted

years ago I had my first flyrod striper mounted

they both got thrown out //

I had a VERY large with perch mounted years ago ///I can,t find it ////////////////////////////////////:rolleyes:

Originally posted by Flaptail
Anything over the 60 mark would be fair game for mounting. Expensive proposition.
no anything over 49.9 :smash:

$1,000 would be nothing compared to the legal bills if I try to hang a 50 in my wife's living room.

Over 50 she hangs:cool:
20 pound blue would look nice in my sons room:)
johnny "the Ratt Boy"

Hooked, I'm in the same boat. If I tried to hang a mount in my house, my wife would make sure that I wasn't around to enjoy it.:behead: :behead:

Over 50 BM and I would probably do something to it I won't talk about here but it would swim away although it would be swimming in a "funny" sort of way. Yep, 49.9 is my biggest, caught on a sand eel at 7:00 in the evening and weighed at noon time the next day. Got a 1.05 a pound for it. 60 is the mounting mark though and I am going to get one.Maybe on that big 'ol black and purple needle you gave me! That would be sweet.

Blow 700-1000 bucks , AND having the wife screaming like Granny Clampett , no thankyou. It would hang in my shop.

ANy fish over 50lbs

Book 'em Danno;)

I have a 7lb 4 oz Rainbow Trout mounted that I caught when I was 11yrs old. the original cost according to my parents was $75 to have it mounted. It has been redone once and re-coated another time. Total cost for those two was $245!!!!
It now sits in a box packed away?
Remember a skin mount requires upkeep or you will be paying to have it redone! Trust me I know!!

Hey Clammer I bet ya know where I caught the fish!! HEHEHEHE


Pictures are worth a thousand words and dont cost near as much!! Have it blown up and framed and let her live to fight another day!!


Russ

Only need one guess ===Russ;)

50 Bass and 20 Blue both get mounted. I mkept but did not mount a 44lb 2oz SB this Summer.

nothing on the wall at this time

http://www.ledgerunnerbaits.com/office.jpg thats a 42 lber and a 43 is on the other wall, anything larger even a 60 lber would go back. I'd have to have a world record at my feet to even consider another mount and at this point, it's a huge investment and not worth it. A good skin mount would likely run you close to a grand for a really big fish, likely over $15/inch at this point.

I would mount 50#+
My wife also would raise holy hell if I came home with a mount
But I would figure something out.

ANYTHING over 78.5 pounds. :D

Slingah....you can hang it at my house and I can tell everyone that I caught it????:uhuh:

i think id rather pay $400-700 and have a 50+# fish mounted on my wall than a Van Staal

a fish mounted means you would have something to look at...a van staal would mean you have something to do more fishing with!!!:D thats a toughy huh???

seriously (I think john said it) about 50# but it would all depend on the situation too...special story to the catch etc...

...I'd mount a mermaid if I caught one :)


:eek: :beat: :jump1: :smokin:

Originally posted by bloocrab
...I'd mount a mermaid if I caught one :)


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Mount, I'd build myself a large saltwater tank, bringing a whole new meaning to the word livewell.

I have a 55" 58lbs. mounted. I caught it in 1990. It cost me 600. Was lucky enough to have it mounted by one of the best fiberglass guys out there at the time, Wally Brown, of Falmouth Ma.. Not sure if he does it anymore. He was getting up there in age in 1990. Funny story on the fish. I caught a 52" 48 lbs. the night before and called him up to see what he charged. I thought it was too expensive and decided no. The next night I caught the 58 lber and figured it was fate so I should just go and do it and I did. No regrets. Probably costs twice that now and could not afford it with kids and all.

I have a skin mount of a surf caught 58#er. For me to mount another bass it would have to be > 60 and I still may not have it done. A 70 I would mount it for sure. I am thinking of having some ordinary fish of decent size: fluke, tog bonito albi's ect mounted and put in my man cave.

I think that when I break my current PR for blackfish, I'd like to get that mounted (currently that stands at 14.5, so concievably a 15lb tog would get mounted)...
'hound

Have a 48 inch fish I caught 9 years ago
and had it mounted. Cost at the time was
$185. The taxidermist placed it on a slab
of maple. Well worth it. Have captured a
few equal to that size over the years and have had a friend fishing with me on my boat grab a 5 footer. Great coversational piece. Want to place a 100 lb. Tarpon beside him. Ooooh La La!
jb