Needing a redear sunfish blank

A bit of creative Apoxie work on the "ear" tab will make any bluegill blank look like a redear.

 

I have a few molds in the 12" range. And no George a bluegill and a redear have totally different anatomy.

 

George, don't let us down. Tell Randy how he is wrong and your advice is correct.. :-X

 

No, I'm not going to tell Randy he's wrong. I'm going to tell him that fishheads are much worse than bird brains in their exactness of a species. The working public, of which 99.9% are our customers tend to be never look at a deer other than the antlers and would never take a second look at a fish other than the color and the defining feature. I know of no one that's ever counted the dorsal fin rays to insure that it was a white crappie replica I'd used instead of a black. Few would know a bluegill from a longear, a redear, a pumpkinseed. or a green sunfish. In the south, many farm ponds are randomly stocked with several species for largemouth food and their interbreeding often ends up confusing even for those "in the know". Last year I repainted a 14 foot white marlin. Now any fishhead worth his salt is going to tell you that there's no way on God's green earth that a white marlin is going to get that big. HOWEVER, it came in painted as a white marlin and the customer wanted it to be a white marlin, so it was damned well painted to be a white marlin. He said his friends all loved it and each of them remarked that they'd never seen a white marlin that big. (Do tell.)

And Brian, you need to work on that burr you have under your saddle. It gets a bit monotonous.

 

Yep totally different species too.

 

Well, for those of you who aren't fishheads and do actual taxidermy work, here's a link that normal people would look for:

http://www.angelfire.com/ia3/fishing/redearsunfish.htm

 

Someone artistic impression? Oh boy what is that saying. It is an artistic impression and may have artistic influence. or just be wrong.

 

I saw what you did there!

 

Blah blah George! Keep promoting hack jobs since you don't care about actual anatomy of a particular fish.. my customers want the real deal.

 

Brian, if I could buy you for what you're really worth and sell you for half what you think you're worth, I'd still outpace the stock market.