Here is an idea what the largemouth that is mounted in the following picture will be doing in the diorama. The stems of the pads will be bent steel, coated, and painted green with a flat metal tab welded onto the stems. The tabs will then be epoxied into the fish and should not be visible. A frog replica or frog lure will be epoxied to the top of another pad. My friend Josh Knuth in Oshkosh, Wisconsin who is an expert molder and gifted artist, is supplying the pads which are molded off of the real thing, and also the stems complete with the welded on tabs.
Mounted Bill Cody bass:
Live bass doing what I will attempt to duplicate:
