The Process

While there are other ways to mount your fish, this method gets the best result, preserving the size, shape and lifelike look of your great catch.

1. A body form for your fish is carefully and accurately hand carved from a block of white foam to its exact shape.
2.  With meticulous care your fish is completely skinned from lips to tail. The skin is tanned and wet-fitted to the body form and the fins are extended and pinned. Your fish is then left to set.
3. The throat is filled, glass eyes are fitted, the body is colour toned and varnished.
4.  The fish is then screwed to a board for display.

This is traditional museum taxidermy. It is skilled, concentrated and very slow, but well worth it. The finished result is three-dimensional and looks ready to swim!

The only maintenance your trophy requires is to remove the dust with a damp cloth if required.

I received many enquiries from people wanting to buy mounted fish, usually looking to decorate a business premises. They presume I fibreglass fish. The examples of these moulded fish I have seen look good, but you could never mistake them for the real thing. They merely look ‘decorative’.

I stuff real fish, your fish, a one off, one that can’t be duplicated. It's a memory preserved by reality.