able, two sticks of equal length and 
slightly longer than your package, lay 
it upon them and wrap in more cloth 
or paper, tying all up securely. If 
you are in a country where birch 
abounds you can strip off a large 
enough roll of the bark to enclose your 
fish. Punch holes in the ends of the 
roll and sew it together securely. 
Your trophy can now be kept for a 
considerable time without fear of spoil- 
ing, but should be forwarded to the 
taxidermist at your earliest opportu- 
nity. 
A FEW cautions on handling fish for 
mounting may not come amiss. 
With some species the scales are not 
very firmly attached and so they must 
be handled with care. 
If you fold back the skin of a bass 
for instance too closely, it will loosen 
the scales, and it must be remembered 
that every injury, or loss of scales, is 
apt to show quite distinctly in the 
mounted specimen. The less injury, 
the less time needed to finish up the 
mounted specimen. 
In killing a fish which you may want 
mounted it is not a good practice to hit 
it on the head with some blunt instru- 
ment because this frequently breaks the 
skin, but it is much better to raise the 
gill flap and with a sharp narrow- 
bladed knife cut down into the heart 
which lies just between the pectoral 
fins of Trout, Salmon, Pike and Mas- 
calonge, and which in the Bass family 
lies just in front of the ventral fins, 
instead of between the pectorals. The 
cutting of the heart will of course cause 
the fish to bleed freely and conse- 
quently die quickly. 
Do not allow a good specimen to 
thrash and flop around to injure itself. 
Hold it firmly in your hands or press 
it down on the ground or bottom of the 
boat so that it cannot struggle. 
If a fish has been gaffed, do not 
despair of its being mounted nicely 
as in most cases the taxidermist can 
sew up the gaff holes and cover the 
injury entirely, although it takes more 
time and greater pains. A number of 
times the author has had large speci- 
mens which were badly mutilated in the 
catching, brought in for mounting and 
which when completed were perfect in 
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Also in the same way a fish which has 
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