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Hello to all 2coolers!! Just wanted to announce that starting now all 2cool members who purchase a fish from New Wave will receive a free baitfish with your order. For example, a seatrout will receive either a mullet, croaker, or pilchard. A sailfish will receive either a flying fish, pilchard or can choose to have a remora attached to their fish. Every order gets something free! All you have to do is mention 2cool. This offer is good till Nov. 1. and will periodically be re-instated. Also look out for a give away in the future. I will also be updating the pics when we finish something new. We are a family business that strives for excellence with 30 years of experience and 3 world championships. We are also a family of Fishermen. I myself am a bit of a seatrout freak.... I look forward to interacting with all of you and learning some new tricks.
If you are a New Wave customer please feel free to post a pic of your mount!!
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#223 ·
Great work. Some of the best I've seen. I just have a comment on the tails.... I can't tell from your pictures but do the tails haev any curve or waviness to them? My biggest gripe every mount I've ever seen is the tail. Every one of them, skin mount and replicas alike, have perfectly flat tails like they've been sandwiched in a Webster's Dictionary for 6 months. I think wavie fins and tails would make most mounts MUCH more life-like. That being said, y'all do some incredible work.
 
#224 ·
I'm at home now but I'll post a pic of the curvature of some fins and tails tomorrow.. There are some tails that are flat, but it is always specific to the pose of that fish.. For example, I posted a photo a little while back of a closed mouth snook. His pose is strait. With closed mouth and closed gills he was molded with the intent that he is laying in the current just waiting for something tasty to swim by. Most of our poses are of fish in a swim pose. Some tail curve is the norm. We never mold fins spread to their max.. Its not natural!
As for skin mounts..... The reason the ones you've seen have perfectly flat fins is they really are "sandwiched" between card stock and generally, some sort of mesh material. This allows them to dry.
 
#233 ·
Fish Specialist: I really like what you are doing with the fins on your mounts. I've got 4 different skin mounts done by 2 different taxidermists. The crappie below was the easiest mount to take down, and dust off, for a picture.

I think that all 4 of the mounts have exceptional paint jobs and very good work around their heads. The tail fins in particular just aren't at the same level as the work on the rest of the fish. But overall, they are pretty good.

 
#235 · (Edited)
I decided to include one more mount picture because of the story with it. I didn't dust off this Bonefish mount for the picture, so the colors don't show up as vibrant as they really are.

About 25 years ago, I caught this Bonefish @ Little Exuma island in the Bahamas. I had my girlfriend (wearing a bikini at the time) hold the fish so I could take a lot of pictures of the fish while it was still alive. I wanted good pictures so the taxidermist could get the colors correct. At that time, skin mounts were the only way to go, because molded mounts hadn't evolved to where they are today. The local taxidermists just weren't doing good work so I froze the fish to bring home. Rock hard, I slipped it into 2 sets of sweat pant legs and put it in a clothing suitcase for the return trip. I declared it, but the customs guys didn't even open to look at it.

It was still frozen when we arrive home. The next day I took it to the Taxidermist that had done my other fish. this in in northern Minnesota... he had never mounted a saltwater fish. I showed him all of the pictures of my girlfriend holding the fish. She looked pretty hot in her bikini. He looked at the pictures for quite awhile. Gradually, a big smile came across his face, and he said: "I think I can do it".

Bonefish aren't easy to paint because there are a lot subtle pastel colors involved. This picture doesn't do it justice. Anyway, when I picked it up, I was shock. It was the best paint job on a Bonefish that I had seen anywhere. I asked: "How in the H did you pull that off?" With a twinkle in his eyes "I studied the pictures for a long, long time!"

Before he started on the project he told me that he had been given about a year to live. He had heart failure and wasn't a candidate for a transplant. Besides be a good taxidermist, we had become good friends. Socialized together. I miss him a lot.



I am anticipating the following response: "This picture doesn't count unless you show the bikini pictures". I'm sorry, but those were with the old fashioned film and didn't get transferred.
 
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