The guide immediately asked me what I wanted to do with it. I said I guessed we should probably clean it and eat it with all the other stripers we'd taken. He looked at me like I was out of my mind and asked me if I realized that most people fish all their lives and never catch anything like that. Long story short, I let everyone talk me into mounting this fish. It took seven months to get it back and it has never been out of the shipping crate in over nine years. My wife would not have that bass on display in any of the three homes we've occupied since I caught it. I have finally given up ever displaying it and decided to see if anyone else has any desire for it. In retrospect, if I had it to do over again I would have taken a couple of pictures of it and let it go. I regret not coming to that decision then, but there was pressure from all sides to make a trophy out of it. It was mounted by Billy Moutaw of Hillman's Taxidermy Studio in Yukon, Oklahoma and I still have all the paperwork . The pictures are of the actual fish and there is basically only one angle since it is still mounted in the shipping framework of the box. Only my name on the plaque has been erased from the photos for privacy purposes.