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Old 07-28-2013, 11:25 AM   #21
numbskull
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Keep in mind the more familiar you are with a fish the worse most mounts look.

Yeah a big shiny plastic bass pinned on your wall will impress the inexperienced, but it will also probably pollute and kill your memory of the fish's magnificence........a sad thing to pay a lot of money for. Even a good mount (and your odds of getting that are smaller than getting the fish itself) looks diminished suspended on a wall since we are used to seeing these fish from above rather than below. Basically the fish's azzhole is more prominent than its girth and back.

I've not caught a #50, but I've released enough in the mid-high 40's to know that the visual and tactile memory of those big girls sliding out of my hands and back into the night far outweighs any gain killing one so I can pay someone a $1000 bucks to turn it into the fish equivalent of a painted whore. To each their own, but something to think about before you get one.
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