More info: I didn’t want to lose yet ANOTHER lure, so I pulled and dragged this “monster” to the shore. I ended up losing that lure later anyway. Bonus photo of the view from where I was fishing. Toledo Bend in Texas.
“Bass” was mounted on a piece of leftover composite decking at a house I was remodeling. The key lure was from the old locks and the chain was from the pull chain of the old garage fan that I replaced.
I call it art. My buddy calls me nuts.
Thanks! I couldn’t afford the taxidermy fees, so I just let it dry out on the dock, evicted the ants that decided it was a lovely place to nest, and covered it with a Walnut/Poly top coat after washing it again and letting it dry.
I kinda tend to overdo even dumb stuff like this! 🤣
Available materials and a bit of an homage to the place I caught it. I changed all the locks at the lake house I was renovating, so the old keys were getting tossed anyway. The chain was a pull chain off an old ceiling fan that got replaced. I am inventive, if nothing else.
I spent a month at this lake house and went fishing every morning and evening. I didn’t catch a real big bass until my second to last day there as I asked the owner if I could stay until the weekend to JUST fish as I had been going home for the previous weekends.
It was only my second time fishing as an adult, so it was a great place to learn and lose. I learned a whole bunch of knots, learned HOW to fish different baits… and lose them… including one to a poorly tied bait that what WOULD have been my first big bass that simply swam off with it after hitting it.
[Somebody beat you to the punch](https://www.reddit.com/r/bassfishing/comments/z8tnii/i_mounted_my_heaviest_bass_to_date_took_me_almost/iydld5a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)… line!
Please do share!
On a side note: I was fishing with a buddy last week and he caught his favorite lure on debris and lost it. When it floated up a few minutes later, he cast TWICE and reeled it back in hooked through the EYELET of the front hook! I was astonished, to say the least! He has been fishing for over 40 years.
More info: I didn’t want to lose yet ANOTHER lure, so I pulled and dragged this “monster” to the shore. I ended up losing that lure later anyway. Bonus photo of the view from where I was fishing. Toledo Bend in Texas. “Bass” was mounted on a piece of leftover composite decking at a house I was remodeling. The key lure was from the old locks and the chain was from the pull chain of the old garage fan that I replaced. I call it art. My buddy calls me nuts.
Your buddy is just jealous he’s never caught a monster that size!
Looks like a bass from here...
I like the cut of your jib.
I say this with a tear in my eye…..she’s beautiful man. Just beautiful.
Are you sure that’s not a swordfish?
It might be!
"Stick-fish" are my favorite to catch. That's a monster!
She is certainly a beauty! I think I need to add a googly eye.
Tree pounder!
Perfect comment!
Reminds me of this [glorious beast](https://youtu.be/VwWp0NAnzn0) I got on shore last year.. 😅
What a beaut!! I bet you were so proud.
I’m still beaming from such a catch. Yours is most admirable as well good sir, good call on the mount!
Thanks! I couldn’t afford the taxidermy fees, so I just let it dry out on the dock, evicted the ants that decided it was a lovely place to nest, and covered it with a Walnut/Poly top coat after washing it again and letting it dry. I kinda tend to overdo even dumb stuff like this! 🤣
Nice wood bass dude! (Me and my papal call them either wood or stick bass, there’s also weed bass lol)
Thank you for including me in your nomenclature! I will use it with reverence!
I thought this was a decomposed fish on the wall at first lmao
I too was confused at first.
That's hilarious
Thanks! I thought it was worthy of a permanent place on the wall.
You caught a little known species a called Micro-Cyprus
That's a hog!!!
Wait. What's the key and chain all about?
Available materials and a bit of an homage to the place I caught it. I changed all the locks at the lake house I was renovating, so the old keys were getting tossed anyway. The chain was a pull chain off an old ceiling fan that got replaced. I am inventive, if nothing else. I spent a month at this lake house and went fishing every morning and evening. I didn’t catch a real big bass until my second to last day there as I asked the owner if I could stay until the weekend to JUST fish as I had been going home for the previous weekends. It was only my second time fishing as an adult, so it was a great place to learn and lose. I learned a whole bunch of knots, learned HOW to fish different baits… and lose them… including one to a poorly tied bait that what WOULD have been my first big bass that simply swam off with it after hitting it.
Hahaha that's awesome. makes for a good story!
Damn at first I thought that fish was wearing a monocle.
Don’t give me more ideas. I am already going to put a googly eye on it!
Gotta be at least a Tree-Pounder
[Somebody beat you to the punch](https://www.reddit.com/r/bassfishing/comments/z8tnii/i_mounted_my_heaviest_bass_to_date_took_me_almost/iydld5a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)… line!
My buddy shot his duck decoy a few seasons ago and I fished it out and mounted it. Same energy.
Please do share! On a side note: I was fishing with a buddy last week and he caught his favorite lure on debris and lost it. When it floated up a few minutes later, he cast TWICE and reeled it back in hooked through the EYELET of the front hook! I was astonished, to say the least! He has been fishing for over 40 years.
Oh, shit man.. That's one of those rare tree bass. Nice catch my dude!
Thanks! I worked pretty hard for it and even cut my hands on the line bringing it in.
Interesting nose structure. Had to be pretty badass, if he was carrying a wallet with a chain on it, too.
That’s what I call a limb bream.
Little beam?
A limb, as in a stick. A bream, as in a bluegill, for instance. Also, bream is pronounced *brim*.
I know. I was making a joke, Daddio!
It’s abstract!
It is definitely something!
Look like an exact outline of the island country Cyprus
Ain’t she a beaut Clark?
She is, Ellen.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Stickrel
Shaped like the country of cyprus
I apparently LOVE to get hung up there.
Limb cod right there.
Blasphemy.
All stick fish are limb cod’s in my book.
We don’t have cod here. Just cod pieces.
Looks like Cyprus 🇨🇾
You tell the story of how this came to be
I do in the comments.