Perch Mounts

  • scmelik
    South Dakota
    Posts: 238
    March 10, 2014 at 8:52 am #1360008

    This weekend I caught a perch that I am pretty sure I want to have mounted, it is not HUGE like some of the perch we have seen posted on here this year by a few members but it is still really nice and the nicest perch I have caught in my 20 years of perch fishing at 13.5″ and 1lbs 14oz.

    That being said I am trying to come up with a mount idea that I can talk with my taxidermist about. I have never been a fan of just a single fish mounted on a piece of drift wood, to me that is just boring (no offense to those that have mounts like that or like mounts like that, it just isn’t my style). I am more of a fan of “action” style mounts.

    For those of you that have fish mounts whether it be perch, crappies, gills in an action type mount would you mind posting a picture of the mount? I want to get a few different ideas, see a few different things. I have an idea running through my head but I would like to see other options as well and then go in and talk with my taxidermist and get a plan put together.

    thanks

    youngfry
    Northeast Iowa
    Posts: 629
    March 10, 2014 at 12:56 pm #1395189

    Not sure where you hale from in SoDak but either way… Top Notch Taxidermy in Brookings is excellent. And he can probably do about anything you could dream up. He is a top finisher every year in state taxidermy competitions in SD and MN so his work is validated. He has a website and a facebook page with lots of pictures of his fish.

    I just went and looked at some of his work again. I haven’t seen much better. My two favorites are the bowshot carp and the jumping smallie with a surface lure in its mouth.
    http://www.tntaxidermy.com/#!photo-gallery

    FishBlood&RiverMud
    Prescott
    Posts: 6687
    March 10, 2014 at 1:28 pm #1395197

    I was thinking about mounts yesterday for some reason, and here’s a mount that i could probably handle in my house.

    A replica 47″ flathead, mouth wide open about to engulf a 24-30″ walleye that has it’s mouth smashing the head of a 9″ creek chub.

    Below the flathead is a 60″+ sturgeon hovering over a bass head laying on the bottom.

    All this on a woody backdrop, maybe even a full size ecosystem type painting behind the wood that includes schools of shad being chased by walleyes…Now that is something i could look at everyday.

    As far as your perch goes, i like mounts that show the food chain, i.e. your perch eating something. Maybe it’s about to pull a bug off of a branch…

    scmelik
    South Dakota
    Posts: 238
    March 10, 2014 at 1:36 pm #1395200

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    Not sure where you hale from in SoDak but either way… Top Notch Taxidermy in Brookings is excellent. And he can probably do about anything you could dream up. He is a top finisher every year in state taxidermy competitions in SD and MN so his work is validated. He has a website and a facebook page with lots of pictures of his fish.

    I just went and looked at some of his work again. I haven’t seen much better. My two favorites are the bowshot carp and the jumping smallie with a surface lure in its mouth.
    http://www.tntaxidermy.com/#!photo-gallery

    thats exactly who i was going to take it too.

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18615
    March 10, 2014 at 1:47 pm #1395201

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    Not sure where you hale from in SoDak but either way… Top Notch Taxidermy in Brookings is excellent. And he can probably do about anything you could dream up. He is a top finisher every year in state taxidermy competitions in SD and MN so his work is validated. He has a website and a facebook page with lots of pictures of his fish.

    I just went and looked at some of his work again. I haven’t seen much better. My two favorites are the bowshot carp and the jumping smallie with a surface lure in its mouth.
    http://www.tntaxidermy.com/#!photo-gallery

    thats exactly who i was going to take it too.

    Why not now?

    youngfry
    Northeast Iowa
    Posts: 629
    March 10, 2014 at 2:06 pm #1395210

    Nice! Tyler is a great guy. I used to duck hunt with him in college. That aside… he is also a great taxidermist.

    As far as ideas go, it would be cool to have something that represented the uniqueness of SD perch. A big football perch next to “submerged” farm equipment of some unique feature like that. Maybe the perch could be inhaling a mouthful of amphipods (freshwater shrimp). I’m not much of an artist, I’m sure you and Tyler can come up with something awesome!

    scmelik
    South Dakota
    Posts: 238
    March 10, 2014 at 5:12 pm #1395245

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    Not sure where you hale from in SoDak but either way… Top Notch Taxidermy in Brookings is excellent. And he can probably do about anything you could dream up. He is a top finisher every year in state taxidermy competitions in SD and MN so his work is validated. He has a website and a facebook page with lots of pictures of his fish.

    I just went and looked at some of his work again. I haven’t seen much better. My two favorites are the bowshot carp and the jumping smallie with a surface lure in its mouth.
    http://www.tntaxidermy.com/#!photo-gallery

    thats exactly who i was going to take it too.

    Why not now?

    sorry wrong verbage. That is who I am going to take it too IF I decide I am going to mount it. Right now I am still on the fence on whether or not I am going to or not. Its a big perch and its the biggest I have ever caught but I am not sure that gives it enough in my mind to mount it. There isn’t really anything overly special about it, its just a south dakota jumbo but thats where the specialness of it stops, no good story, nothing out of the ordinary other than a very nice perch.

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