Catfish Mount Reccomendations.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by weedeater

I was told in the past that you cant acutally mount a catfish, they do replicas according to size and then paint them.... I was told this a few yrs ago and it may have changed but thats how it use to be. So what size fish are you mounting?

Yeah, I have never seen a real catfish mount. Several in restaurants but they were replicas. Seems like it would be an extremely tedious chore to not cut the skin when cleaning them, lack of scales doesn't give you much freedom if you do mess up, and the skin when drying would not be able to be stretched out again.



:disclaimer
these are all assumptions made on my part, I am in know way an expert, I am not a licensed taxidermist, I do know 2 taxidermists however we have never talked about catfish mounts, i have not stayed in a Holiday Inn in quite some time, in know way do I know what I am talking about, it just seems logical, and this advice should be taken with a grain of salt if you even read this