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It's slowly coming right, shoulda seen the initial pics! Dead
It must be bloody hard to mount a fish you've never even heard of. I remember when JRDO was getting a boarfish mounted it had to be repainted three or four times, but in the end it turned out so good!
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8kg snap taken at the chicks, took my roller gun in to check a burley but nothing on it. Swimming back out wide to the boat saw another bommie so i snuck over the front saw this and blasted  him while he was chilling on the bottom. Once shot a heap of other big fish bolted(mostly drummer but a few snaps too) landed with no knife or floatline/reel...interesting
 

11kg at little barrier a few weeks later. Swimming out wide with some mates and i shot a nice pannie of a few kgs out of a big depression then realised i may have more luck in shallow by myself. Few ledges produced zilch but upon coming to another ledge i snuck over very quietly as i could see some blue mao mao sitting up high. On the edge i looked up to my right then straight at the school fish then left but still nothing. As i tracked up the ledge i saw this beauty mooching away so i hugged the rocks and sped over to a small mound which was between us closing the gap which allowed me to get a solid flank shot exiting out the pec on the other side(as shown in picture) unsure of the shot so called my mates over rather frantically and jacko plugged it in the head to secure it. Pretty chuffed as is a PB and even better it has been sent to paddy at action mounts.
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Raw talent right there.
 
Paddy does an awesome job, you wont be disappointed - be patient.
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Lovely fish SC! It's good to have a nice mid range fish mounted. Gives a sense of perspective when you get a decent one! Wink
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Cheers herby. After seeing your fish and sams fish I didn't want to go anywhere else! Yeah agreed DD when I get a fish like yours mine will have a friend for the wall!
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I've got another fish in with him now, so you better not get yours back before I do!

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Theory: the Herby fish-mounting fund is a money laundering scheme for black market under-the-table dodgy dealings
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Those snapper are nice but what we really want is a photo of you in a yellow rashie.
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Originally posted by Diver Dan Diver Dan wrote:

Lovely fish SC! It's good to have a nice mid range fish mounted. Gives a sense of perspective when you get a decent one! Wink

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Originally posted by herby herby wrote:

In the tropics you see plenty fish that the Hawaiians call 'mu'. You see dozens of small ones which are stupid, but once they get to ~500 grams they develop a bit of cunning.
Seeing plenty doesn't mean you actually get plenty and you could quite easily spend all day trying but getying none.
There's a few tricks to getting them within range, and occasionally these tricks work and you end up with a fish.... but usually they don't. Funnily enough the spookiest ones I've ever seen were on an island where I highly doubt the fish would've seen a diver - Takutea, the only Cook Island which has never been inhabited.  
Usually mu are about 1.5-2kg, with the world record somewhere around 6kg.
 
Last time I was in Tonga (July) Chains and I had a great time chasing these things around and slowly figuring out how to actually get them. As our trip progressed our strike rate increased.
I got lucky one day and managed to bang a spear through the middle of this guy.
We never weighed him but I brought him home and he's currently with a taxidermist being immortalised. 
 
 
 
 
Exactly a year since I pulled the trigger....
 
 
It's not awful, but it definitely could be better. Lucky it was cheap.  
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Still no orange in the fins?
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Nope.  
I did ask. Unhappy 
 
I know who I won't use again.
 
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Get him to re do mate it costs nothing if ya not happy with it
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I'm trying to work out a solution with the guy now. If I don't get a favourable outcome I'll let ya's know which taxidermist to avoid!
 
I agree Rusky - he's from your home town.
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Well, if it was hanging up on the wall behind you that pretty much is the colour it would be?
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It'll be the same colour no matter where I hang it Matto, it's painted. 
 
It needs a red pec fin, red around the mouth, darker saddles, slightly darker face... y'know, all the things I asked him to do way back in April.  
 
 
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Originally posted by CRAYMOUNTS CRAYMOUNTS wrote:

Get him to re do mate it costs nothing if ya not happy with it


Things are getting interesting.
It turns out this particular taxidermist doesn't use the system Craymounts mentioned... Yip, he can touch it up, but he said the transport (he's in Whangarei, I'm in Auckland), labour and materials will be at my cost. That's not going to be happening - in my opinion, until I'm happy with it then it isn't even finished.

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Opinions aside, using the right colours would have been a start. Did you send him a black and white photo?
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Nah, just a short paragraph
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