The Modern Way to Mount a Fish, Taxidermy

By Bud Louis

Taxidermy can be performed in a wide variety of ways either as a hobby or bought as taxidermy for sale. The Greek word taxidermy literally means arrangement of skin. Animal Taxidermy is most commonly performed on vertebrate animals which include: mammals, fish, reptiles, birds, and amphibians.

Some people have the misconception that animal taxidermy is bloody and is very difficult to stomach. Although the killing of the animal is necessary the animal usually is skinned first. A chemical is then rubbed on the skin in order to preserve the animal. It is then mounted to a mannequin which usually consists of wood, wire or foam.

One of the more important qualities of a good taxidermist is the careful precision that it takes to accurately measure an animal. There are also many major differences between yesterdays taxidermy and the modern technology of todays taxidermy animals. Some interesting taxidermy include lifelike fish mounts. Other great taxidermist have many exotic creatures in there collections such as: artic foxes, bears, cats, deer, coyote, turkey, and even jungle creatures. This precision and improvement in technology allows for great works of art that end up as taxidermy for sale.

Modern taxidermists use technology to their advantage by constructing their taxidermy animals from new materials such as silicones and fibre glass. This allows for more lifelike animals that appear to still be alive. Taxidermy for sale is perfect for the enthusist who would like to keep a trophy of their hunting and fishing expedition as a wall mount or on a stand.

Good taxidermists must be very careful and good in their work due to some of the sentimental attachment of some of the customers to their recently departed pet or hunting trophy. This is mainly due to the fact that you can only mount an animal once and you only get one opportunity to do it right or you will ruin the animal.

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Information about Fishing Knives

By Kate Bass

Various tools are all in a fisherman's tackle box.You can bet one of them is a fishing knife. How is it so? Fishing knives can make or break a fisherman's preparedness. When looking for fishing knives, here are some of the things you need to remember.

When choosing a fishing knife, the size of the fish that you are trying to catch should be considered. A small fish will be damaged with a large fishing knife. On the other hand, small fishing knives used on medium to large fishes such as a catfish or grouper may be time consuming next to impossible.

Various types of fishing knives should be considered when you want to catch various fished.You can find fishing knives sold solo or in sets.

The quality of the blade plays an important role in the knife you select.Stainless steel blades that can preserve their sharpness in the long run is the best there is. Stainless steel comes highly recommended because of its strong resistance to rust as fishing knives get into a lot of contact with water. A fishing knife must be as sturdy as a hunting knife. It is used to cut through bread to make a cleaner cut.A cleaver is a large knife commonly known as a chopper. Cleavers are sued to cut through bones and crushing garlic. The cleaver has a very extra thick and tough edge so that the knife can withstand the repeated pressure of chopping bones and meat.

Style could be another thing you should consider when choosing a fish knife.Think about how much time you will spend with the fishing knife. Foldable ones are safer especially if your tackle box is unorganized. This is so that you won't injure yourself while fiddling your tackle box looking for your fishing knife.

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Baits for Catfishing.

By Dr. Phil Hariram

Experienced anglers will tell you that you can catch catfish with any bait because these fish are greedy scavengers and predators. If, however, you use the right catfishing bait and rig and find the right spot, you significantly improve your success rate.

There are several types of catfishing bait. These include natural bait, dead bait, live bait and static bait.

Natural Baits: The best natural bait for catfishing are worms. There is, however, one problem with this bait. Pest fish also love them and will be attracted to your bait. Use lobworm and put as much as you can fit onto your hook. Free line rig, pop-up or leger are good choice when using worms. Another good live bait is freshwater mussels but like worms, they also atracts other fish especially carp and tench.

Maggots can be used as catfishing bait but they are more effective in attracting catfish to your swim if they are used as loose feed. You can also use leeches as natural bait. They do not attract pest fish and a bite is very likely to be from a catfish. Leeches are mainly used as blood suckers in medicine and the type available to you as catfishing bait are usually larger.

Live baits: This is a great choice when catfishing. This fish is very greedy and although it will eat anything, they prefer live baits. If you choose to use live baits, then limit the size to not less than two ounces and a maximum of twelve ounces and make sure you have the right rig in relation to the bait size especially if you are trying to land the big one.

You have a large choice of live baits but the popular ones are bream, carp, roach, tench, rudd, perch and eels. Use two to three live baits on your hook if you can only catch small fish to use. Bigger fish will need to be cut into smaller chunks. Use live baits in near features and open waters. Live baits give you greater rig choice and fishing variations.

Dead bait: Most anglers have dead bait in their bag. The catfish is reknown for it's strong sense of smell. Even if a catfish is very far away, it will recognise the smell of your dead bait and will swin towards it. The fresher the bait, the better it is for catfishing.

The recommended freshwater dead baits are perch, rudd, salmon sections, pike sections and roach. You can also use carp, tench and bream. Alternatively from your local tackle shop, you can get blast frozen bait such as eels and lampreys. For sea fishing, use sections such as heads and chunks. Here you can also use mackerel, sprats and sardines.

Additional dead bait that you can use are shellfish and squid and, from your tackle shop or local fishmonger, frozen calamari. Depending on the size, you can use the whole squid or fish with the body. If you fish with just the body, then the recommended rig is a pop-up. For the whole squid, use a leger or free line.

Another dead catfishing bait are chicks. Before you use chicks remove the feathers or they are likely to float. You also need to remove the head and cut the dead chick up into smaller bits. A good tip is to use one or two swan shots and place them roughly four inches from the hook. Yoou can buy frozen chicks from pet shops.

Static bait: Liver, heart and kidney are excellent static catfishing bait. These organs have a very good circulatory system and when placed in the water, will leak blood. The catfish has a very powerful sense iof smell and will pick up the scent of your bait very quickly. This makes these organs not just good baits but they can be used as pre bait to draw the catfish to your swim. Liver from any animal will work but the most available ones are from ox, pigs, lamb and chicken.

Catfish have a powerful sense of smell and you can use this knowledge to your advantage. You can make pellets mixing paste that combines several taste and smells. Boilies are also used by a few anglers but this bait is boiled and therefore is not as strong smelling as other static baits. You can also use spam, luncheon meat, and sausage as static bait. They are most effective in spring and autumn when the water is cooler.

Other baits used for catfishing are cheese based and soap. Cheese based baits are used frequently in USA. The cheese is left to decompose and then used. The strong smell is like a powerful magnet to the catfish. Animal fat based soaps are used more commonly in Africa.

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Catfishing In Ponds

By Doug Taylor

There are three main kinds of catfish that you can find in pools. The tiniest of the 3, and most likely the ones that you are going to spend the most time catching, are the Channel Catfish. The 2 other larger species of cats are the Flathead and the Blue catfish. These last 2 can grow to incredible sizes.

Channel catfish generally eat a trash diet -- picking off bugs on the water's surface and eating dead forage fish -- which explains why they're superb for managed ponds. They are also easy to catch, and usually, the populations have no problems surviving after a catch and release. Flathead catfish are renowned for their voracious appetite which makes them incredibly straightforward to catch also. Blue catfish, on the other hand, are tougher to find due to their dieting habits.

There are 2 advised types of tackle that you can use for catfishing in ponds. If you will be fishing in a pool which has the larger assortment of moggies like blues and flatheads, then think about taking a medium action rod, with either a spinning or baitcasting reel.

Use treble hooks because these fish will easily suckle the bait off a single point hook. With the way that catfish treble hooks are designed, moggies are unable to get the bait off, and when they have the hook in their mouths, they're caught.

For smaller catfish, you may use ultra light fishing tackle. You must think about taking one or two rods with you. Having a couple of lines soaking at the very same time will raise your chances of having a bigger catch. Allow your lines to soak, but ensure the drags are set loose on the reels.

With loose reels, the fish can swim off with the bait hooking themselves in the procedure. As fast as you hear the drag hollering, tighten the rod down till you feel pressure, and start fighting the fish. This is typically enough pressure to keep the fish hooked.

These kinds of catfish are typically straightforward to catch so long as you give your bait time to soak. You may mate the water to bring the fish to you. You can toss dog food, sweet corn, or broken up corn flakes into the water to bring the catfish to your location, making them simpler to catch.

You can also try catfishing in ponds at night for the best chances at catching plenty of the bigger monsters. The large fish go roaming at night so, if you want to catch them, your surest chance is to go fishing after dark with bigger, stinkier baits.

Noodling for catfish in pools has also become extremely well-liked. The basic concept behind noodling sounds simple enough at first. It basically calls for you sticking your hand in a hole, run it into a fish mouth, grab the fish, and pull it out of the water. It is actually much more complicated than that and is essentially quite an involved process.

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Selecting The Right Rod And Reel For Salt Water Fishing

By John Drake

There are literally thousands of choices when it comes to selecting your fishing gear. There are many manufacturers of both rods and reels, many different combinations you can use and many possible outcomes. It all depends on finding the reel and rod that is right for what you intend to do with it. You need to know what you will want to do whether that is fresh water or salt water fishing, light tackle, medium tackle, heavy tackle and even fly-fishing.

In order to be able to select the best tools for the job you need to narrow the job down even more. If it is salt water fishing that you will be doing then you should decide if you will be fishing in shallow or deep waters.

In order to get the best results when out fishing you should consider getting specific equipment for the job. For instance, if you are going after Spanish Mackerel, King Mackerel, and Cobia in the gulf of Mexico then you should be looking for specific kinds of gear.

What reel you will be selecting is important when salt water fishing in order to get the best results. For example if Spanish Mackerel is what you will be going for you should get a light to medium weight reel to get the job done because this type of fish is not too heavy. Any reel from the from the abu garcia ambassadeur line should do the job.

Spinning reels should be selected if you intend to be fishing along the coast. For coastal fishing a reel that has about two hundred yards and 10 to 12 pounds of line. A good tip is to tie a steel leader perhaps 12-14 inches to prevent fish from biting the line.

When doing shallow water or pier fishing for King Mackerel, you will need considerably heavier fishing gear as these are considerably larger fish. The general rule is the heavier the fish the heavier the equipment you will need to do the job right. For King Mackerel on the Upper Gulf Coast will average around twenty pounds.

These fish will require way more than 200 yards of fishing line off your reel in seconds! When fishing for these monsters you want to have a medium heavy rod, seven to nine feet in length and preferably paired with a heavy salt water reel like the Abu Garcia Ambassadeur C4 reel.

Abu Garcia reels are good for salt water fishing just because of their durability and relatively low cost. Finding an Abu Garcia reel for salt water fishing at a good price is not a big deal. Just go online for all your fishing needs and you will be able to equip yourself for some great adventures of salt water fishing with the right rod, reel and line.

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The Quest For Hard To Find Antique Fishing Lures

By Chris Douglas

So what draws people toward wanting to collect antique fishing lures? People are surprised to find that fishing lures actually are even collected. In actuality, they are very popular and are one of the most commonly collected antiques. A lot of detail went into these old lures as they were hand made. Because each one was done individually and not off of an assembly line, they are each unique in their style and look.

They tend to be very colorful and detailed. Usually hand painted and made from wood or metal, and finely chiseled into the shapes that attract the fish for which they are made. Fish have a pretty big food chain so these lures can take on all kind of fancy shapes from the smallest flies up to bigger fish. Most lures today are mass produced and tend to look all alike, yet because of the fine detailing that went into these they are quite unique, which of course increases their value quite a bit.

These antique fishing lures can take quite some time to make, depending on the amount of detail that goes into them. For example, if they are made from wood they can by very detailed and finely carved. Sometimes days to make. Is it any wonder why master collectors seek some of these out? They are like little works of art.

You can find many old hand made lures at antique shops. Even some modern fish and tackle shops will carry antique lures. New England has a lot of shops that carry older hand made lures. Finding them depends on your area, but also using the internet as a resource can be helpful. Try doing searches on search engines for antique fishing lures and you should be able to find ones in your area.

Are antique fishing lures worth a lot of money? That of course depends on the maker and the buyer. If they are unique and hand made, the answer is usually yes, as these are considered to be works of art by many collectors. If you want to hold onto them for a while then they will undoubtedly go up in value over time. Since there will always be a demand for unique works of art by collectors around the world, it's a safe bet that by keeping them safe and in good condition, you will have an item the will be in demand by other collectors.

When you are looking for lures that are collectables, try checking around at meetings where people get together and trade goods that are hard to come by. A good example may be conventions where antique items are traded. This is also a great place to meet others that are avid collectors of hard to find hand made items. You will learn some great tips and techniques on finding very hard to find collectables from experts and pros in the area.

In closing, people collect antique fishing lures for various reasons ranging from the fact that they are unique pieces of art, colorful, and hard to come by. They are generally made from wood and metal and twine, hand crafted and hand colored. You can find them at antique shops, in the phone book, or online to name a few sources. They can be worth quite a bit of money because they are unique, and given their condition, can be worth quite a bit of money. To learn more, ask around and visit collector. Join online message boards that discuss them, and don't be afraid to ask questions and get involved.

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Lender Repo Bass Boats and Yachts Up For Liquidation

By Chester Gringham

What fisherman doesn't enjoy cruising the open water on their own boat or even a rented boat. Owning a boat is definitely a possibility not only for the well-to-do but also for anyone who's willing to check a few boat auctions in the region for repossessed boats. Repo boats are available for quiet a bit less than most realize but are often stereotyped for being trash or too beat up. Now a days that's not always the case. Repo boats are sometimes not worth inspecting since the owner didn't care..for a long time but many are steals. The key is to know where to look and how much to bid.

Purchasing a boat repo from a local auction house may be a tremendous feat for anyone who has never bought a repo unit in his life. Avoid buying in a rush. Always take the up front time to do research and study the available options in the market. Do this and you'll never experience buyers remorse.

Know what you and your families preferences are, and if possible list the things that you must have in your boat. This will determine the size and the features that you'll look for. This pre-conceived idea will eliminate all the rest of the market that doesn't fall into those specs.

Study the types of boats and their best uses based on you and your families needs and wants. Then decide on what kind of boat falls is most suitable. It will help you in your actual search to sit down and think this through.

Determine your budget, and to be afraid to ask about special bank loans so as to make some financial arrangements with your lender. Also, remember that a repo boat found at auction will typically cost more due to repairs and other maintenance. Be sure to factor this into the loan amount.

Also, decide what kind of engine you may need. Your needs may cause you to decide between a single or twin engines, gas or diesel. For boats, gas engines are cheaper, fast-running but are less durable. Diesel engines have more power and often amazingly affordable.

After deciding on the specs best for you, check the available repo boats on the market. There's more out there than most think. Some units may be found in places like government auction yards, but bank auctions or Boat Auctions Direct is going to give you more options. A marine broker can assist you for a percentage of the purchase price but can help you locate a great deal, and make necessary arrangements with the transport of the purchase.

It is important to survey and maybe even a sea trial of the boat prior to bidding. You really need to hear and feel how it runs and sounds. It helps to have a checklist of the items that need repaired or questionable. Make sure that the engine has not been warmed-up prior to starting, and listen to the sound when started. Notice if the meter gauges are working, and check the emission. When the unit is in the open water, get a feel for how it handles turns. Check if the temperature rises above normal when speeding.

Ask questions. It is helpful for the buyer to know the real condition of the unit, sometimes looks lies. Don't jump to conclusion, sometimes a simple replacement of parts may just be the answer to some serious problems that disqualifies a unit to be a good buy. The best priced boats may be offered for cheap because of some missing or malfunctioning parts. Be aware to what extent if this is the case to ascertain out of pocket expenses.

Finding a bargain, bank owned repo boats is just a click away, click here to see. Repos are definitely a steal if you know where and when these boat auctions exist.

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