Pictures Of Temperate Bass Mounts?

[Bird Watcher]

I caught a good fish over the weekend. I ended up catching it on my UL, fishing for white bass. It took too long to get it in and I just couldn't revive it enought that I thought it would live. Since it died and I don't like eating them, I think I would like to get it mounted. I did a quick google image search online, but I can't find any pictures of mounts that look "right" to me. If anyone has pictures of their own mounts by local taxidermists that they are satisfied with, I would appreciate seeing them.

Thank you,

[flytyer57]

I caught a good fish over the weekend. I ended up catching it on my UL, fishing for white bass. It took too long to get it in and I just couldn't revive it enought that I thought it would live. Since it died and I don't like eating them, I think I would like to get it mounted. I did a quick google image search online, but I can't find any pictures of mounts that look "right" to me. If anyone has pictures of their own mounts by local taxidermists that they are satisfied with, I would appreciate seeing them.

Thank you,

This mount wasn't done by a local taxidermist, but Ilike it.

[Bird Watcher]

This mount wasn't done by a local taxidermist, but Ilike it.

FT,

thanks for the reply, and that is a nice mount, but I'm looking for Stripers and Hybrids, AKA, Temperate Bass.

Nice mount though..

[Tim Smith]

FT,

thanks for the reply, and that is a nice mount, but I'm looking for Stripers and Hybrids, AKA, Temperate Bass.

Nice mount though..

Sorry. No help on the taxidermy here. A good picture seems to be the current trend. Might keep your wife/sig. other happier too.

Temperate bass taste ok if you take out the bloodline. Agree they are pretty awful if you don't.

[Bird Watcher]

Yeah, I hear ya. I actually would rather have a picture of it and it still swimmming, but a picture of a fish that was dying just to say I released it seemed like a waste. Wish I would have caught it on a stouter rod. Catching it on a 7' UL took too long. The fish was spent when I could finally get it to the net. That being said, killing them doesn't bother me as much fundamentally as say a LM, SM, or even a crappie. I mean after all, a sterile hybrid pretty much defines "put and take" resource. Or at least that's what I was telling myself.

I don't know about the eating of them...not for me anyway. I've cleaned the red out of them before...they are still pretty greasy when they get big. Maybe a small one, but I let all of them go to get bigger.