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11-15-2003, 10:11 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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How Big A Fish Would You Have To Catch To Have It Mounted?
Just a curious question....how big would the striper have to be for you to have it mounted???  Also, do any of you have any fish mounts now??? I do not.....yet! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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11-15-2003, 10:49 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
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50 - maybe a little smaller if there was a thoroughly encompassing struggle / story / memory
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
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11-15-2003, 11:01 AM
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eh! What do you mean?
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Tiverton
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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..
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11-15-2003, 11:07 AM
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Wishin' for fishin'
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Brockton
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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
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11-15-2003, 11:47 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
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Anything over the 60 mark would be fair game for mounting. Expensive proposition.
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11-15-2003, 11:49 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 4,716
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50 plus
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11-15-2003, 11:50 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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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???
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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11-15-2003, 12:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
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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  . |
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11-15-2003, 12:14 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
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Goose - double that.... Figure 700-1000 smackers for a Fifty
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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11-15-2003, 12:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
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 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  |
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11-15-2003, 12:40 PM
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Wishin' for fishin'
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Brockton
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Last edited by striprman; 11-15-2003 at 01:08 PM..
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11-15-2003, 12:49 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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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!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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11-15-2003, 12:51 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Do any of you currently have a mounted fish hanging on your wall at home????
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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11-15-2003, 12:53 PM
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Calling Jon The Fisherman
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: The Sack Of Mass
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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
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11-15-2003, 01:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: RHODE ISLAND
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i think id rather pay $400-700 and have a 50+# fish mounted on my wall than a Van Staal
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Tight Lines!
-Vic
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11-15-2003, 05:11 PM
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A Real Bass-Turd
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: My own little world
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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
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11-15-2003, 05:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
Posts: 11,786
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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 //////////////////////////////////// |
ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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11-15-2003, 05:37 PM
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Dave's Guide Service
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Cape Cod
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Quote:
Originally posted by Flaptail
Anything over the 60 mark would be fair game for mounting. Expensive proposition.
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no anything over 49.9  |
Pro Tool Club....
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11-15-2003, 05:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Bedford, NH
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$1,000 would be nothing compared to the legal bills if I try to hang a 50 in my wife's living room.
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11-15-2003, 07:09 PM
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surfcasting is NOT a crime
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Over 50 she hangs 
20 pound blue would look nice in my sons room 
johnny "the Ratt Boy" |
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11-15-2003, 07:17 PM
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Finally
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FL
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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.  |
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11-15-2003, 08:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
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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.
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11-15-2003, 08:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
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Blow 700-1000 bucks , AND having the wife screaming like Granny Clampett , no thankyou. It would hang in my shop.
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11-15-2003, 08:33 PM
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Rocket Launcher
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: cape cod canal
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ANy fish over 50lbs
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Two Changes and It's Legal 
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11-15-2003, 09:28 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
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Book 'em Danno |
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11-15-2003, 11:55 PM
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Guest
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: RI
Posts: 815
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cost!!
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
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11-16-2003, 12:04 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
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Only need one guess ===Russ |
ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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11-16-2003, 02:19 AM
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M.S.B.A.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: I live in the Villiage of Hyannis in the Town of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of MA
Posts: 2,795
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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
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11-16-2003, 09:44 AM
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Ledge Runner Baits
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I live in a house, but my soul is at sea.
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 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. |
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11-16-2003, 11:52 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
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I would mount 50#+
My wife also would raise holy hell if I came home with a mount
But I would figure something out.
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