Cecil,
Three things come to mind:
1. Small mouth green carp?
They are a lesser evil than bigmouth green carp.
And I have a customer that will pay well for large live specimens. My market for largemouths was not cost effective as the customer that wants large smallmouths can easily get big largemouths. My fast growing largemouths with small heads and fins were not a big hit with other taxidermists. Just didn't look right to them. Plus they wanted really big specimens like over 7 lbs., which even though the heads and fins look more normal on large older fish like that it, takes too long to grow them that size even if they are faster growing than their wild counterparts. Additionally the smallmouth are not as aggressive at feeding time as was my experience with the other green carp. The other green carp were such bullies the yellow perch and bluegills didn't feed as well as they could of, even the yellow perch and bluegills were large enough not be a prey item.
2. I'd hate to see what your BISA dues are going to be.
3. You never cease to amaze me at what you accomplish. You have more experience in raising different species of fish than 94.2% of the membership of this forum. And the HUGE difference for you is that this is your vocation so you have so much more at stake. I realize that this is all obvious but I excel at pointing out the obvious.
In summation I'd like to say....
"We're not worthy!!!!"
I wish!
