In the following thread Dlowrance caught a big bass from his pond and released it. He has me doing a replica of it. (One of the thing's I do for a living.) He and I thought it would be cool to chronicle the process of doing the replica.

http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=420775&page=1

The way fish replica's typically work is if the original fish is not available, the angler gives me a length and girth and/or weight and I order a blank from a supplier that is as close to the original fish as possible. The suppliers usually have thousands of casts of fish of numerous species and sizes listed to choose from.

Here the box of the cast has arrived:



Here is it pulled out of the peanuts:



Here it is showing the approximate length:


Here it is showing the girth:



Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 09/17/15 09:01 PM.
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