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Offline BLKBEARKLR

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Fish mount any suggestions??
« on: December 22, 2010, 03:00:00 PM »
So I am going to another school for ten days. I am doing 2 skin mounts and do replicas.

Skin
Small Mouth
Chum Salmon

Replica
Steelhead.

Just seeing if you can name off some more fish for me to look at and pick another replica. I am looking for something with a lot of colors to it.

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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2010, 03:07:39 PM »
how about a lingcod or rockfish,or any of the wild looking saltwater bottom fish ?
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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2010, 03:12:17 PM »
Sturgeon would be a pretty cool looking mount.
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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2010, 03:12:49 PM »
Dorado or Roosterfish.
Does it have to be a Northwest fish?
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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2010, 03:16:08 PM »
I have a 7lb rainbow trout with somegood color in him.


Maybe a rainbow or cut throat trout  :dunno:
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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2010, 03:20:15 PM »
I would go for a Peacock Bass, lots of very bright colors and a very cool looking freshwater fish.
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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2010, 03:26:39 PM »
Arctic Char

Brook Trout

Bluegill

Pumpkinseed Sunfish

Yellow Perch
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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2010, 03:31:20 PM »
Westslope Cutthroat.
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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2010, 03:31:47 PM »
I have been looking at the dorado, does not have to be a Northwest fish.

Was also thinking of the peacock bass.

Arctic char would be another good one.

Thanks everyone, keep them coming. I just want some fish that have multiple colors in them, the harder it is the more I will learn.

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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2010, 03:34:21 PM »
Quote from: jackelope on December 22, 2010, 03:31:20 PM
Westslope Cutthroat.


Sweet fish, I am liking the shimmers it has in it. The pattern and the blending, this one will go in my pile of making a decision.

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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2010, 03:37:01 PM »
Brook trout in fall spawning colors. 

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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2010, 03:38:32 PM »
Quote from: Skillet on December 22, 2010, 03:37:01 PM
Brook trout in fall spawning colors. 



Skillet that is a beast, do you have any close up photos of that? Would really like to see the colors closer.

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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2010, 03:46:36 PM »
I don't - that is the world record fish, and actually the colors are a little drab in him.  Here's another one that is colored up real nice-



Notice the red dots with blue halos on the sides, white/red fins and the black "worm tracks" on the top of the head, along the back and on the fins.  My favorite looking fish-
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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2010, 08:31:37 PM »
Nothing like a big winter run steelhead or even a big northern pike
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Re: Fish mount any suggestions??
« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2010, 09:08:54 PM »
parrot bass

wait!? African Tiger fish
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