Fish taxidermy has fascinated me from an early age.\nSeeing a huge fish mounted at a tackle shop or lodge always fills me with\nquestions. Who caught that fish? What must it have been like to fight and land\nsuch a monster? How many anglers\u2019 hearts did it break over the years? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My family recently gifted me a mount of my all-time favorite catch<\/a>\u2014a 24-inch largemouth bass I landed in 2014. My research led me to Tall Tale Taxidermy, a Meridian shop run by Dave Danner. Dave did an incredible job capturing the magic of my trophy catch (which I released) with a replica mount. All he needed were measurements and a photo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As I wrote this post, I looked up at the monster bass atop my desk and vividly remembered the thrilling take, the head-shaking fight, her unbelievable size, and watching her swim off with a sweep of her massive tail. It just might be the best Christmas gift I\u2019ve ever been given. Read more about the experience in this Idaho Statesman column<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re interested in having a fish mount made, contact Tall Tale Taxidermy at (208) 888-2827. Tell him I sent you! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fish taxidermy has fascinated me from an early age. Seeing a huge fish mounted at a tackle shop or lodge always fills me with questions. Who caught that fish? What must it have been like to fight and land such a monster? How many anglers\u2019 hearts did it break over the years? My family recently…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}