snapper in wellies
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Category: Diving
Forum Name: Spearo's Corner
Forum Description: Free-divers & spearos chat about their sport
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Printed Date: 05 Nov 2026 at 5:39pm
Topic: snapper in wellies
Posted By: case
Subject: snapper in wellies
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:26pm
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yeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaa
got out for an afterwork swim and speared this fellah.i could only see his tail and i thought s$#t its a grouper for a minute.had to guess which way he turned and have a shot cause he was starting to depart....gave it a texas heart shot,i didnt want to play it cause i didnt know how well id got it,so let it hole up and dived down and pushed the spear thru properly and it was mine. not bad for a wellington shore dive aye! weighed in at 22 pounds,beats my pb by a fair bit.im fizzing still.
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Posted By: Mullins
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:29pm
| Awesome Case! South coast? |
Posted By: rawas
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:29pm
| nice one |
Posted By: deep south
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:29pm
| Awesome work boy! best fish i have seen come out of well congrats |
Posted By: Rusky
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:30pm
Bloody hell. That would have been the last thing you would expect in Welly aye case! 
Good stuff, but it looks like a porae hybrid with that mouth...
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Posted By: Unclejake
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:33pm
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Maaaaaate. Congratulations. I figure you have earned it with those marathon shore dives to Plimmerton Reef etc.
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Posted By: case
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:33pm
| yip,south coaster.looks like a big panny really aye |
Posted By: Unclejake
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:34pm
| Josh will say "I told you so" quite a few times tonight! Awesome Case. Just awesome. |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:39pm
| Great fish Case! I haven't seen any that big down there! |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:41pm
| now what am i sposed to do with it? |
Posted By: Fissure
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:42pm
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wicked fish, well done! |
Posted By: Unclejake
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:42pm
| At least fry the liver Case |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:43pm
| Eat it! If you want to get it mounted pm me - I can give you a contact |
Posted By: Bad uncle
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:49pm
| faaar out thats a great fish! |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 9:50pm
| i might do a gyotaku,and just mount the jaw.most of the snapper mounts ive seen look pretty plastic. liver you say uj, is it good is it? |
Posted By: Unclejake
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 10:01pm
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Battered and fried, the snapper liver is possibly the fishiest thing you will ever eat. I can't eat a whole one, but about half of one gets me a little fired up.
Having said that - I have made an error in judgement ordering a liver meal before and my memory seems to be somewhat dodgy. I think Mullins or Crippy could tell this tale better than I
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Posted By: Omebic
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 10:25pm
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WOW -
isn't this why we are we going to GBI next weekend - that is amazing Case - exactitudes not required but where the heck did you get it?
M
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Posted By: Rig63
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 10:25pm
| Case - awesome mate |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 10:40pm
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you wont fool me with those trick questions omebic
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Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 10:46pm
| Weren't you up in Whangarei today Case? You can't fool us with this Wellington snapper thing! |
Posted By: Azazel
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 11:05pm
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Are you sure it wasn't a red moki? We don't have snapper down here... Good work that man.
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Posted By: gomanly
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2010 at 11:59pm
| Way 2 go Case, who needs GBI aye...ha! |
Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 12:02am
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Crikey. That's the most impressive feat I've seen for quite a while. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: Teezer
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 7:11am
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W
O
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Posted By: Snoop
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 7:30am
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Yeah, so I only dived there for 6 years, granted mostly on scuba and never saw a single snapper.... South Coast? They do catch big snapper in the harbour this time of year. ------------- Axemen Spearfishing... "Putting the crap back into elite" www.axemenspearfishing.co.nz |
Posted By: Geofinz
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 10:14am
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I reckon that might be the fish of the year (or even the decade) for Wellington, well done case. I'll be real happy if I can shoot something similar at Wellington Head next weekend. |
Posted By: hud2
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 10:46am
| Bro, that is a seriously awesome fish! Well done! |
Posted By: jaydogfish
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 10:47am
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nice work was it deep
------------- THE DOGG |
Posted By: daveo
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 10:54am
| Well ****ing done bro! Def fish of the year |
Posted By: herby
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 11:06am
| Wicked! |
Posted By: Bull
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 11:28am
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that must have been the one I saw on wednesday! Freaken awesome Case. Paul texted me straight away. Will mean once I get kingie out of my system I think I might be targetting some snaps in welly this summer! And good reward for a bloke that manages to quietly put in the hours ------------- http://www.squidfish.net/ �.��.���'�.�����'�.��.���'�.� ><((((�> |
Posted By: MattB2
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 12:11pm
| Nice fish!! that is awesome |
Posted By: Dan F
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 12:30pm
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That man deserves a DB or 12 |
Posted By: michael29973
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 12:35pm
| Nice fish, awesome stuff!! |
Posted By: Tall stories
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 1:59pm
That is a wicked fish for any part of the country but even more so for wellys well done 
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Posted By: cartoonz
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 2:14pm
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Posted By: Rig63
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 2:17pm
Toonz you ledge!!! 
Might be a cartoonist's head up there as well before too long! Did Omebic put you up to that?
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Posted By: cartoonz
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 2:34pm
| Rig, yes he did and heaps more stuff which I said was way over the top. Your mates are just queing up to get you for some reason. Must be a Wellington thing I suppose...? |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 3:56pm
ha! thats brilliant toons. wish we still had a clubrooms 
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Posted By: case
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 3:57pm
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actually i think redquarters is the new clubroom.
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Posted By: Omebic
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 6:35pm
Lol - if only I had the control of your creative mind Cartoonz - Rigstirrier63 I A M W A T C H I N G Y OU m |
cartoonz wrote:Posted By: Spearsniper
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 6:59pm
Top effort Case  .
You are setting the bar high for this summer season. ------------- http://spearfishingreview.info" rel="nofollow - www.spearfishingreview.info "If at first you don't succeed, reload and try again" |
Posted By: Geofinz
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 7:02pm
| who needs enemies when you've got mates huh? |
Posted By: baffled
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 7:42pm
 Awesome catch case, there will be many Wellington divers peeking over rocks to find those elusive red moki now. |
Posted By: Terrapin
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 9:03pm
| Awesome awesome effort case. That is the best fish I have seen on the forum. That has to be equivalent to at least a 30lb snapper up north. |
Posted By: hunt&gather
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 9:34pm
Mean effort that  awesome fish for Wellies
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Posted By: oldyella
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 9:47pm
| Inspirational! |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 9:56pm
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Some of you may know Bob Rosemergy, a living spearfishing legend. In the late 80's I think, he was gutting a mess of butterfish at the boat ramp past Moa Point, and saw a fish come in and start grabbing the guts. He put his mask on and lay with his head under on the edge of the ramp, slid his loaded gun in, and shot a 10kg snapper! Another living legend, Dave Mundell, was drifting the Boulder Bank at Kapiti, and had a 6 kg snapper come straight in at him in mid water and bare its teeth at him - he promptly shot it! I think for people prepared to put the time in, the fish are there. A bit of burley in the right places and who knows? Not as consistent as up north, but still worth a go
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Posted By: Keeweebee
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2010 at 3:57am
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^ Yep, my uncle also shot a 22/23 lber in Wellington in the 70's/80's. He's still buzzing about it to this day!
Top effort Case, Chuck that bad boy in the Hall of Fame!
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Posted By: Nick.
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2010 at 8:01am
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The Wellington snapper challenge is on! Wicked fish Case, my vote for fish of 2010 goes to you.
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Posted By: mjl
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2010 at 9:31am
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Awesome Case, wicked fish ------------- "It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. " Hunter S. Thompson |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2010 at 9:36am
| geeze thanks fellahs! it makes me wonder if we hunted more carefully, like you have to to snoop a snap up north how many others are around.i for one will be putting a bit of effort into targeting them in the future. |
Posted By: mjl
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2010 at 9:48am
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Dunno case, I think the snaps you guys get down there are more the 'schoolies' out in deep water rather then the resident moochers we're usually after?
A bloke who's name escapes me weighed in a nice 5/6kg number at the North Island Champs year before last so they're there.
It'd be interesting to keep a berley spot going for a few months. ------------- "It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. " Hunter S. Thompson |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2010 at 10:19am
| yeah, the west coast is the more likely spot ,that guy in the comp got a standing ovation didnt he? i talked to some guys who where gutting a butter in the comp the year before that and they had a good snap come up and whip the guts away right in front of them.they didnt have a gun handy! |
Posted By: Snoop
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2010 at 3:13pm
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Matt, they are definitely there this time of year, particularly on the West Coast up to Kapiti. Perhaps Butterfish Guts the new burley of choice on the fashion stakes. Problem up north is butterfish = bronzie dinner bell.... ------------- Axemen Spearfishing... "Putting the crap back into elite" www.axemenspearfishing.co.nz |
Posted By: JRDO
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2010 at 7:34pm
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Sweet action, good stuff case! ------------- BANNED from doing anything about anything anymore. |
Posted By: Eric de Vries
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2010 at 10:52pm
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Case you legend! What was the viz like.........you quote I could only see a tail. ------------- http://www.southernbluefins.co.nz/ |
Posted By: Ces
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2010 at 8:41pm
| well done case!! |
Posted By: Qaz
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2010 at 11:22pm
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I just realized your going GBI this weekend might need'a get my gun signed! ------------- http://www.gladiatormarine.co.nz/ A fisherman is a jerk on one end of the line waiting for a jerk on the other. |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2010 at 7:51pm
| hey qaz,its not me thats going man,ill be up there sometime soon though. |
Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2010 at 7:41pm
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That is sooooooo cool! Nice
------------- Proud member of the Glen Innes Spearfishing Club |
Posted By: loose unit
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2010 at 8:29pm
| epic fish |
Posted By: Unclejake
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2010 at 9:10pm
He can tell us best I guess (I didn't try it)
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Posted By: case
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2010 at 10:22am
i didnt try it.that thing had the smelliest guts of any animal ive ever gutted.
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Posted By: Smoo Diver
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2010 at 6:43pm
| Highly recommend the smoked snapper liver, the roe was also very good. |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2011 at 10:41am
just got my bone mount back.i have to make a case for it
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Posted By: mjl
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2011 at 10:51am
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That is awesome! Who, what, where, how????? ------------- "It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. " Hunter S. Thompson |
Posted By: Spider Monkey
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2011 at 11:16am
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That is the dogs bollox!!! Keep us posted with whatever you mount it in, really keen to see it finished and on display. |
Posted By: Bull
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2011 at 12:02pm
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very cool case. You in welly at mo? ------------- http://www.squidfish.net/ �.��.���'�.�����'�.��.���'�.� ><((((�> |
Posted By: Bad uncle
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2011 at 6:40pm
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cool
can you see where you speard it?
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Posted By: case
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2011 at 5:53pm
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sorry for the long delay,ive been bush for a couple of days.the guy who does them is:
http://www.skullsdownunder.co.nz/content.php?id=3§ion=16 - http://www.skullsdownunder.co.nz/content.php?id=3§ion=16
hes retired so may or may not do your work as he dosnt want too much pressure.
cant wait to get it in a case.
hey bull,im in welly now but back at work.
cheers,casey
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Posted By: Keeweebee
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2011 at 7:37pm
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Yep, I can confirm that that is in fact COOL! I'd prefer that to a regular mount anyday.
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Posted By: case
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2011 at 8:12pm
the spear went thru on an angle and only broke a rib so it was easy to repair luckily.the iki hole is a different story though 
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Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2011 at 8:45pm
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Posted By: case
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2011 at 9:47pm
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yeah,thats what i thought too.interesting,its got an extra set of lateral bones growing(little short ones)he reconed he'd never seen that before.also one rib missing on either side ,quite common extra/missing bones ,and some bones getting sort of fatter which is the start of a form of cancer type thing.aalso pretty common.
i wonder if the missing ribs are a marilyn manson type deal
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Posted By: Troy Tempest
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2011 at 10:04pm
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Just shown the wife your skeleton mount. She is totally anti the whole 'stuffed fish on the wall' thing but thinks yours is the business.
Well done on the fish. And choice decision on presentation.
I've just got to get something worthy and the space in our lounge is mine... ------------- ·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸¸·´¯'·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸ ><((((º> .¸¸·´¯'·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸ ><((((º> Just quietly getting on with it... |
Posted By: Spider Monkey
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2011 at 10:04pm
| Argh that's disgusting!(MM) |
Posted By: sAsLEX
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2011 at 6:39pm
| The cost on his website, is that to mount a supplied fish? |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2011 at 6:56pm
| i think thats for the one displayed.it depends on the fish.and that includes the case too.best give him a ring if your interested. |
Posted By: sAsLEX
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2011 at 10:14pm
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Would be nice to have a rough idea of the cost involved to get it to the state yours is in versus a plastic/fibreglass mount? |
Posted By: Paul M
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2011 at 10:21pm
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500$ for a 24 pound snapper I got a fibre glass mount of, pretty happy with the finished product, will post a picture. |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2011 at 7:21pm
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it cost a bit more than that.give him a ring if your interested.
cheers,casey
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Posted By: case
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2011 at 5:33pm
all mounted up.just need to make a perspex cover 
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Posted By: Spider Monkey
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2011 at 5:35pm
| As I said before, that is the dogs bollox! |
Posted By: JellyMan
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2011 at 10:17pm
| Looks awesome! |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2011 at 10:21pm
| Yep, I like that too. I got a fibreglass mount of my 14kg fish, and I am really happy with that. My 15kg fish I just did a Gyotaku print onto fine cotton. Keen to do the bone thing next time for the 16kg model! (feeling smug as I type this) |
Posted By: Nick.
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2012 at 3:15pm
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thats kind a cool, kinda creepy! my Packy lives int eh garden shed as its kinda creepy to have in the house, need a pool room. |
Posted By: e.m.p!
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2012 at 3:21pm
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A mate once bought a fish skeleton cast in glass… The glass had quite some big bubbles in it and had a lot of imperfections which made it look even better, like a piece of art. May be worth considering. Regrading the perspex casing, I may be able to help you out. PM me if you're interested.
K |
Posted By: e.m.p!
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2012 at 3:31pm
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Ups sorry – just seen this thread is from last year. K
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Posted By: Naki-Fisher
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2012 at 9:41pm
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I'm sorry but this is one of the coolest mounts I have seen. Case that is a piece of art and you have solved my problem for when I catch a fish worthy of such a effort.
------------- The 20lb+ Snapper club No Longer Eludes me Broken with a 12kg new PB Goal for the next 12 months: catch another 20lb+ Snap and watch it swim away Hook a King LB here in the Naki. |
Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2012 at 9:47pm
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yeah, it's pretty sick, eh?
------------- Proud member of the Glen Innes Spearfishing Club |
Posted By: B1g_Pun
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2012 at 10:09pm
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I really wanted to do it with my PB but the cash monies involved was a bit prohibitive. Also having not got it mounted I now have more motivation to shoot a bigger one ------------- "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" William Shakespeare |
Posted By: The cook
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2012 at 11:06pm
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Yeah glad this got bumped up as I've never seen a bone mount before & its way cool!
I've never considered mounting a fish as it just seems wrong (to me) not to eat it if you killed it, this way you get the best of both worlds
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Posted By: AdrianH
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2012 at 12:01am
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Looks pretty awesome. What would be involved in doing this at home? or is it not very easy? I've seen the flatmates clean up possum skulls and stuff, and they looked alright. A fish would be a much bigger job though. Can you just pick off as much flesh as possible and then use worms/maggots to clean up the last of it, then bleach the bones, and lastly fix bones back together (provided you actually know where all of the bones go or don't disrupt them too much).
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Posted By: MrWildabeast
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2012 at 7:37am
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mint!
------------- Here fishy..fishy.... |
Posted By: Muppet
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2012 at 8:20am
That is awesome
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Posted By: case
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2012 at 9:21am
| i got the idea from the ocean hunter ad. |
Posted By: Smoo Diver
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2012 at 9:40am
Unfortunately the best method involves removing the flesh with dermestid beetles. You might be able to take the fillets if you are very careful. |
Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2012 at 11:55am
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imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I still have those 3kgs of cocaine for you-must send them off if I can find your address ------------- Proud member of the Glen Innes Spearfishing Club |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2012 at 12:16pm
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yip i carefully filleted it. if you cut the lateral bones youve stuffed it though. |