by Warren Young

OCCASIONALLY SOMEONE OPENS THE DOOR to my studio shouldering a mounted fish that looks like it'd been the object of a dart competition. Until recently I thought all these old off-the-wall relics had served their time and should be tossed out. About three months ago, a fellow stumbled into my shop and placed a beautiful, fresh, twenty-eight-inch rainbow trout on the admitting table. But before I could say it was Friday, he spun around and trotted back outside to his truck and returned with a forty-three inch mounted northern pike--or what was left of it--and asked me whether I thought it'd be worth restoring. Evidently, this one was enshrined in sentiment.

Ed Thompson of the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, Georgia, and his wife paid me a welcomed visit here earlier last year while staying with his son and daughter-in-law and a new little grandson. Ed noticed a similar old northern pike mount leaning against the wall at the end of the bookcase in my...

...Continued in the Fall 2002 Issue of Breakthrough.

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