10-11-2015 06:47 PM
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.
10-11-2015 07:23 PM
It's so dehydrated looking that it's a little hard to tell.
And no body to see either.
Might be a Northern Pike.
10-11-2015 07:35 PM
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.
10-11-2015 07:36 PM
Looks like somebody caught and mounted the front of the head of.. the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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.....
10-11-2015 07:39 PM
10-11-2015 07:44 PM
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.
10-11-2015 07:46 PM
Coelacanth?
10-11-2015 07:50 PM
@amidoingthisright wrote:Coelacanth?
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winner!
10-11-2015 07:52 PM
Not a bass. Lower jaws are extended on largemouth and smallmouth; hence the opening wide thing.
10-11-2015 08:06 PM
looks like a snapping turtle 🙂
10-11-2015 08:12 PM
Its either a Jellyfish or a Walleye fish. That is like a 2 on the fun meter.
10-11-2015 08:24 PM
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.
10-11-2015 08:36 PM
Mummy fish on toasted bark
10-11-2015 08:38 PM
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.
10-11-2015 08:42 PM
@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.