I’m not a big social media guy and I don’t take a lot of pictures. When I do, it is usually holding a fish and just saved on my phone. 
Do you guys/gals do anything creative with all of your fish pictures? Something around the house? Or just leave them all on your phone?
I think I would like to do something to have at home that looks presentable or would be entertaining to take a look at from time to time. Maybe even just an old school photo album?
Any input helps, thanks all!
If my kids catch a big fish, I usually print it out in black and white and frame it, either hang it in their rooms or set on endtables. Fun to glance over and remember
Will have walls of fishing pictures. Usually do the canvas ones they are really nice
I have 1 framed hanging and a couple nature pictures I took framed and hanging. Mostly they end up loss because they were never printed.
I do a lot with Shutterfly! Shutterfly is a great website that you can personalize things with photos or names, and make photo books as well. I was very much into traditional scrapbooking for many years until I got into making the simpler books on Shutterfly. They’re durable and you can order more than one of the book so it’s great for making books on family vacations or trips with kids. You can also order prints from Shutterfly, though sometimes the shipping isn’t so greatly priced, but it’s fun to have framed photos and collages hanging up around the house. One of my favorite things to make there is the magnets. Great for adorning your fridge and file cabinets with photos.
A coworker of mine just bought a new fancy electronic picture frame… you can load photos onto it OR send photos to the frame through an app I think and they’ll show up for display! She bought it for her elderly Dad who’s not that great at emailing or printing photos.
Looks like Kohl’s still has the frame on sale!
https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-4341047/simplysmart-home-photoshare-smart-frame.jsp?prdPV=1
Good question, what to do. We never had too many pics up around house. Alot of kids artwork but not many memories.
I recently took an old cork board from the basement not doing anything and printed off some memorable pics from phone and laptop. Super easy to do thru CVS app, which is close to the house. Cheap pins and bammo, pretty cool board I pass everytime I go up and down the stairs to my BR.
Life gets busy, sometimes I forget the good times we’ve had which makes me grateful. Reminds me of maybe another pic is due for some more memories, and well heck some are just for fun.
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After my first year living on the river I started an album, kept in living room. Length and weight on each photo as well as date. Folks like looking through them.
I haven’t put a picture in it in a few years, but I backup all my photos on an external drive. One of these days I’ll continue to do that. Quite the album of fishing and hunting photos. People seem to glance at a photo on a phone, but they take their time when looking through an album.
I enjoy looking back at each picture and remembering the day.
All the biggest fish are framed, on the wall.
Edit, I don’t crop out backgrounds unless it goes online, much of the beauty of the day is in the background.
The electronic Frame is the way to go. You can add or change the pictures it displays as often as you like. You can leave it on a single picture and change when you want or just have it rotate thru all the pictures you have on it.
Best photo i took of my grandson when he was still in diapers. He is standing at my livewell looking at minnows i threw in there for him to play with.
Hard to believe he turns 12 this month.
Keep sending them to fishing friends that are working while I am fishing. LOL
my wife had this one printed on canvas and framed for me….the rest i keep on flkr
I need to make a display board one of these days
I don’t have many pics but I put them on my screen saver at work brings up a lot of conversations.
Wife & I created our “Wall of Fame”
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Paul D that’s awesome. And cool topic everyone, some very cool ideas and pictures on this thread!
My hope some day is to have a “wall of fame” as well, and one thing I’ve always wanted to do is, if possible, have the lure I caught it on hanging from the picture frame. I’ve got a mounted northern that has the spinner bait he was caught on just dangling from his mouth, and I think it’s pretty cool to have crankbaits all scarred up from teeth accompanying a picture.
I both love and hate phone pictures. I’m not one to have 1,000 pictures stored on my phone so I delete a lot. Some of the winners do make my man cave wall.
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Every year my two boys and I catch a few fish together. We make sure I get a pic with each of them individually holding a fish they caught every year. When they were really little it was me kneeling behind them holding it for them, then as they got older, they held the fish but usually they were smaller sunnies or perch off the dock. Now that they’re 10 and 12, the fish are bigger and I’m just a prop. But I have a pic with each one of them every year of their fishing lives and I love looking back through them every year when we put the newest picture in the frame. Hard not to cry even typing this.
Love the responses, thanks everyone! Electronic picture frame might be the ticket for me!
I move all the fish photos to an album on my phone and save the length of the fish on the file so it doesn’t grow. The nice ones get add to my desktop screen saver. I used to have fishing pictures up all over but they have been replaced with professional family photos. I still have one up of the first fish my son caught 100% on his own. It is right under a replica of the fish. Just a 20” hammer handle but a damn proud dad moment. I will have to look into getting one of the electronic picture frames. That is a great idea.
Every year my two boys and I catch a few fish together. We make sure I get a pic with each of them individually holding a fish they caught every year. When they were really little it was me kneeling behind them holding it for them, then as they got older, they held the fish but usually they were smaller sunnies or perch off the dock. Now that they’re 10 and 12, the fish are bigger and I’m just a prop. But I have a pic with each one of them every year of their fishing lives and I love looking back through them every year when we put the newest picture in the frame. Hard not to cry even typing this.
This is great, obviously you cannot go back in time and recapture those moments of your children during those growing years.
A photo journal such as your doing will be priceless.
For me, most all my best fishing pics are in a box somewhere in a basement. This was before the digital age, when you had to drop off a roll of film at a Walgreens or Kodak kiosk. And then you got back the paper prints.
There’s a box somewhere that have my kids first fish pics from some 35 years ago. I still hope to find those someday and see if I can get them on a digital format.
It would be my joy to be able to share those old memories now.
Wife & I created our “Wall of Fame”
That’s solid Paul. Best one I’ve seen so far.
In the early days, I used to put them all in photo albums. With the advent of the smart phone, I now take photos of fish throughout the year and, when the year is done, I make a video montage set to music. All of them go on the video chronologically, with each video sorted by year. After the video is made, individual pics will get deleted off the phone. Then I start over.
Truly special events – pics of ‘the biggest of the big’ or from a tournament win – go in a frame on our ‘Wall of Fame’ at the cabin or in the man-cave at home. As old as I’m getting it sure takes a special fish to replace a pic of one already on the wall. Doesn’t happen often. Oh, and sometimes I post them here – about my only social media outlet.
I go through a couple disposable cameras a year they are super easy to use and usually the picture turns out nice actually getting a picture u can put into a frame or album not just pics on my phone , my dad uses these disposable cameras religiously still and it’s really nice looking back on all the actual photos we have not just on a phone.
I started to make an annual 11 x 14 collage out of the ‘best of the best’ pictures each year. For the pics on my phone that are candidates of being collage worthy I save them to my google drive throughout the year – putting them in a new folder each year.
At the end of the year I go to the google drive folder and select the best of the best pics for the collage. I try to add one with each of the friends that spent a day on the water with me – those times are priceless regardless of the size or number of fish we caught!
Walmart has a simple online photo order process – upload your pics & put them in the location of your choice in your collage. You can print the 11 x 14 collage (poster) in the layout of your choice for $6-7. Then I pick up a cheap frame – $2-3 to put the collage in and they go on the wall of fame!
Tip- make sure to add the year via a simple text edit in some spot on a photo in the collage as the years tend to fly by!
There is an online company called Easy Canvas Prints. You upload a picture on the website and they print your photo on canvas stretched on a wooded frame. They look excellent and hang very nicely. You can choose the size, dimension, and style you like. Instead of mounts of my big fish, I order these and hang them on my wall in my “man cave”.
I’ve got a picture board at the cabin I refer to as the Wall of Fame. It is for Muskies only. Other fish pictures go other places. I will occasionally rearrange the pictures moving the bigger fish to the top and the smaller fish eventually get bumped off the board to make room for new pictures. First timers get to stay on the board regardless of size. Almost all of the fish were caught on our lake over the years. It is really cool to look back at all the pictures and think about the great times that were had.
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This is a wall in the basement living room
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Hey, I know that kid!! 
I like the wall Bearcat. I just transformed my utility room into a pool room and will have to steal you idea for some areas on the wall.
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