When you are down south fishing, or even off in Alaska on a fine fishing vacation, you are going to encounter some huge trophies that you may want to take home with you. So what exactly do you do with the massive trophy fish you just caught, and don't intend to eat? You get it stuffed of course! Fish taxidermy is available at just about every fishing destination that you can visit, and keeping your trophies to have them stuffed has never been easier. Usually, if you are involved in a vacation or trip package, you are going to be able to just tell the captain or guide that you want to keep a large fish you catch for the fish taxidermist, and they will line everything up for you.
If this hasn't been included into your fishing package, you can usually have the service performed for a couple hundred bucks, depending on the size of your catch. Fish taxidermy supplies don't often cost much, but the trade itself is a very lucrative business. For people who are in remote locations, such as Costa Rica, Mexico, Alaska, and some farther reaches of Canada, this is a healthy business model for natives that provides them with a steady income, usually regardless of the seasons.
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A few of the major species of fish that are being stuffed range from smallmouth and largemouth bass, to brook and brown trout, steelhead salmon, bluefin and yellowfin tuna, swordfish, and especially sailfish taxidermy. Wherever you are able to catch sailfish, you can bet that there is going to be a taxidermist available to help you keep your catch fresh. These fish grow to massive sizes, and put on extremely intense battles, so having the trophy mounted is something that is practiced quite often.
As stated, fish taxidermists usually don't charge too much for their services. It is typically a base rate of the amount of supplies that they used up on your fish, as well as a base hourly rate that they figure up. These hourly rates tend to range from $10 at some of your lower cost of living fishing destinations, while others range up to $40 or $50 per hour, because of the sheer size of the fish, and the volume of traffic these taxidermists see. In the tropics, the fishing is good all year round, for very large trophy fish, so fish taxidermy is an incredibly business, that for them, rarely has any valleys as they are called in business.
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