Taxidermy Gone Bad: The Steelhead of Pompeii Edition

by JD on August 16, 2010


It’s been awhile since I stumbled onto some Taxidermy Gone Bad, but I found this gem a few days back. It seems that rainbow trout and steelies, two of the world’s most vibrant creatures, are particularly vulnerable to bad mount jobs…it’s just not that easy to recreate the color schemes these fish sport when alive. Mix that with a few decades up on the wall, plenty of exposure to fluorescent lighting and a 1/4-inch of dust …and PRESTO!…you’ve got a trout that is either coming down with the flu or looks like he was maybe swallowed up and cast solid in the ash flowing down from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

To see more bad taxidermy, click HERE

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Roy Gray August 16, 2010 at 8:18 pm

Looks like peg board ‘merchandising gone bad’ as well…….

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