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<blockquote data-quote="pluckem" data-source="post: 173205" data-attributes="member: 843">I don't have any fish mounted, but haven't ruled it out. But honestly, if I do decide to get a mount I will look hard into replicas. Its all synthetic so they shouldn't be any issues with it looking old down the road, Just keep it out of the sun and UV light. I want to pay once for it and be done. I don't want to have it touched up or fixed 10-15 years down the road. I don't buy into the whole &quot;its not your fish&quot; thing. I have seen the traditional taxidermy process throughout the steps and they have to fix, fill, recreate, and paint so much on the fish that to me it is never really the same fish you caught anyway. There are taxidermists that take your whole fish and make a custom mold out of it to make the replica. I have seen plenty of replica fish that are truly works of art and some of the most realistic mounts I have seen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pluckem, post: 173205, member: 843"] I don't have any fish mounted, but haven't ruled it out. But honestly, if I do decide to get a mount I will look hard into replicas. Its all synthetic so they shouldn't be any issues with it looking old down the road, Just keep it out of the sun and UV light. I want to pay once for it and be done. I don't want to have it touched up or fixed 10-15 years down the road. I don't buy into the whole "its not your fish" thing. I have seen the traditional taxidermy process throughout the steps and they have to fix, fill, recreate, and paint so much on the fish that to me it is never really the same fish you caught anyway. There are taxidermists that take your whole fish and make a custom mold out of it to make the replica. I have seen plenty of replica fish that are truly works of art and some of the most realistic mounts I have seen. [/QUOTE]

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