The only burbot mount I have ever seen was in the our provincial fish culture station.WW
It's EXTREMELY difficult to get a nice mount from any smooth skinned fish like burbot, catfish/ bullhead etc. because of necessary detail in the form, wrinkling of the skin, and grease issues. Typically anything that is real will look like garbage, and anything that looks good is most likely a repro. If you were to have one mounted, I would suggest a repro, either using your own fish or a commercial blank. Randy
one question. why???
My wife has a 29", 9 pounder on the wall in our living room. It is not a repro. The paint job does not reflect as much green as the fish actually had, but does represent pictures of Burbot that show more of a brownish olive color. The wife caught this feller out of the Black river in Michigans Northern lower penninsula. She was about 400 yards from Lake Huron, fishing for Salmon. She found a dead minnow on shore, replaced her spawn with the minnow. It was at night, under a street light, she spotted the Burbot hangin around in the river hole. Played around a bit, and coaxed him into eating the minnow. The fish kinda stunk. Mike Wagner in Watewrford Michigan is the Taxidermist who mounted this fish. He has mounted nearly 30 mounts for the wife and I.I highly suggest getting one mounted if you can. Nice conversation piece, and it looks cool on the wall. Although the finished product does not look 9 pounds.
