Is it legal to keep a 50# fish? Yes? Then its yours to do with what YOU want not some one else to tell YOU what to do with it. CJ you have a wright to feel the way you do and I have the wright to tell you to mind your own business. By the way they do still do skin mounts I know because the fish I got last night which was hooked in the belly and at first was going back but is now going on the wall is at the shop now being done. I do not know the weight yet but at first we measured 48" but at home we got 51" will I let a 50# fish go? Now that this one is going on the wall I would say so but its still NONE of YOUR business. Go have a beer or a smoke or what ever it is that you do that I do not like its your wright knock your sell out.