It’s been awhile since I stumbled onto some Taxidermy Gone Bad, but I found this gem a few days back. It seems that rainbow trout and steelies, two of the world’s most vibrant creatures, are particularly vulnerable to bad mount jobs…it’s just not that easy to recreate the color schemes these fish sport when alive. Mix that with a few decades up on the wall, plenty of exposure to fluorescent lighting and a 1/4-inch of dust …and PRESTO!…you’ve got a trout that is either coming down with the flu or looks like he was maybe swallowed up and cast solid in the ash flowing down from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
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Trout...tastes just like cicken liver!
You know I love bad taxidermy, so I couldn’t resist snapping a quick pic of this dandy piece of craftsmanship hanging in the Tackle Box Cafe at Lake Amador in Northern California.
Well, at least we now know what’s killing the trout at Amador…
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Taxidermy Gone Bad
It’s been awhile since I’ve run into some really lousy taxidermy, but when I do it often comes in spurts. Such was the case in a little Nor Cal pizza joint the other night….when I lucked into these two fine specimen…on the same wall!
I was immediately torn as to which one to include in our always popular Taxidermy Gone Bad section, so I decided I’d let these two toads go at it in our first ever Steel Cage match. Check out the contenders and then vote for the winner below!
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You guys know by now that I’m always on the lookout for “Taxidermy Gone Bad” and, I’m pleased to announce, we’ve got a couple nice new additions to the collection here. I especially like this lingcod head…a wonderful blend of creepy, strange and more than a dash of disturbing.
But wait, there’s more!
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As you guys know, I’m a huge fan of really bad fish mounts and this one, sent in by regular FishwithJD reader Rod Vin Steel, is a dandy! I’m not sure what the skunk has to do with anything, but it certainly adds to the appeal here…
Apparently, there’s a lot more where this came from:
“Just in case you’ve haven’t been in to Fosters Bighorn in Rio Vista, CA, you can have a lot of eye balls watching you eat lunch,” says Vin Steel. Click here to see more Taxidermy Gone Bad!
by JD on February 25, 2008
My ol pal T-Man, who despite the fact he lives in Florida, still has an excellent eye for sad-looking salmonid mounts, sent in this dandy to be added to our ever-growing collection of Taxidermy Gone Bad.
He says the fish is a rare Christmas King of the Northeast, known not necessarily for the time of year in which they run, but instead for their tendency to bite anything that looks remotely like a Christmas ornament (I hear white is a hot color!).
This actually could be a historical moment here at fishwithjd.com. This fish may just be the first-ever Taxidermy Gone Bad/Smoker of the Year Contest entry!
by JD on February 20, 2008
Here’s the latest entry to one of my very favorite portions of this site, Taxidermy Gone Bad. This beauty (you can almost see the reflections of the headlights in her eyes, can’t ya?) was sent in by reader Luke Veldt who ran across the mount in Romania.
Guess they have oakies who “truck hunt” at night there, too…
Mad River Outfitters in Arcata, CA may just be one of the coolest tackle shops around, but even they have some skeletons in the closet…like this sorry excuse for a brown mount. To their credit, this nasty beast isn’t displayed on the wall (anymore) but is instead piled on a junk shelf in the back room. I have to assume that this fish actually looked better than this when it was pulled from the water…because now it’s so ugly that it kinda reminds me of a “brown trout” that I “released” into the porcelain pond earlier this morning…
Representatives from Mad River Outfitters declined to comment.
