Part 1: Mounting a Rainbow Trout

by Don Frank
 

The specimen for this project is a plump, 16-inch rainbow trout from Lake Taneycomo in southern Missouri. The fish is a nice specimen, however, not a perfect one. The trailing edge of the gill covers on both sides are deformed and do not lie properly on the body. The branchiostegal rays are also misshapen and will have to be corrected on the cast head. Both defects could have been from the dynamite I used in order to collect the fish.....

 

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

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