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Need a Fisherman's Help

I'm looking to ID the type of fish that is mounted here.  Also, is there a special name for this unusual (to me at least) mounting style?  Thanks for your help.

 

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It's so dehydrated looking that it's a little hard to tell.

 

And no body to see either.

 

Might be a Northern Pike.

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Oooh, icky weird mounting.  And I have no problem whatsoever with displaying fish I've caught - I'm looking at one right now, on the wall by my desk, the whole fish, not just the head on shellacked wood.  But to each ...

 

It's not a bass.

Sherry

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Looks like somebody caught and mounted the front of the head of.. the Creature from the Black Lagoon.  Smiley Surprised

 

Actually, sort of hard to tell what that once was.  I agree with holly.. pretty dried out head portion.  Could be a Large Mouth Bass.....

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Whatever it is it deserves to be put out of it's misery.

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Pike have teeth so I don't think it's one. You are right it's hard to tell but going by the size and shape of the mouth I'd say it's a smallmouth bass although the eyes are a little too close together for a bass. 



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Coelacanth?

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@amidoingthisright wrote:

Coelacanth?


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winner!  Smiley Very Happy

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Not a bass.  Lower jaws are extended on largemouth and smallmouth; hence the opening wide thing.

Sherry

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looks like a snapping turtle 🙂

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Its either a Jellyfish or a Walleye fish. That is like a 2 on the fun meter.

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The longer you look at it, the creepier it gets!

 

Definitely just the thing to list for the Halloween Season.. a true goulish freaky scary.. thing

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Mummy fish on toasted bark

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I am trying to find the photo, but I saw a photo of a carp's (they call them **bleep**, seriously) head mounted just like this that I saw somewhere in Eastern Europe on a cruise this spring.

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@tripp_the_lab wrote:

Pike have teeth so I don't think it's one. You are right it's hard to tell but going by the size and shape of the mouth I'd say it's a smallmouth bass although the eyes are a little too close together for a bass. 


I know they have teeth, I've caught them before, but

 

I thought maybe the teeth fell out of this thing, Lol.

 

 

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