here is my bluegill mount restored

[cal okeefe]

since i joined this forum i remembered how happy i was to get this bluegill mounted so i did some restoration on it.. put some clear on it to get it shiny again and took off the old wood plaque and put the fish on a piece of wood that came off the old beaver hut that i caught this fish off.. what u think..

before

[cal okeefe]

[Slip Sinker]

beautiful!

[James Micheal Landrum]

You did a great job, and I bet you made the Memories FRESH one again too !!!!!

[Gerome Hilliard]

Beautiful fish! What was length and weight?

[cal okeefe]

after

[Jeff Soto]

Fish looks the same, except it's on a branch instead of a panel.  I guess it is shinier.  Do you have a photo of the live actual fish?  

[cal okeefe]

ya i guess your right.. that panel looked like s##t i always thought.. ya i got a pic somewhere ..

[Jeff Soto]

No Cal...  it's a well done skin mount, but when you said restored, I thought you meant it was repainted.  I'm going to post a mount I made of a big Bluegill here in a few minutes...

[cal okeefe]

ok look forward to seeing it..

[Bruce Condello]

Huge fish. This forum has really attracted the best of the best.

[cal okeefe]

well thanks bruce.. im hardly a pro or anything like that .. but when you fish as much as i do your bound to catch a biggun here and there..LOL

[DUANE SCHULTZ]

Cal, that is a nice Gill, I like the drift wood better too.