big a name that guide has established for himself. I don't care if he has a TV show and I don't care about his rules. When I hire a guide, I'm not hiring someone to dictate to me what to do with the legal fish I catch. A guide is paid to put you on fish; not to dictate what you can or cannot do with your legal fish. You are paying them your own hard-earned money to put you on fish not to be a dictator; unless you want to go along with that rule that's up to you. If you folks reading this article want to mount a 45-or48-inch musky, I strongly suggest you talk with your guide ahead of time and get it straight, that if you get a legal fish you want to keep, you will keep it. If the guide does not agree with your wishes, I would suggest you find a guide who will allow you to keep a legal fish if you so choose. There are still a lot of good guides working today that will agree to keep a legal fish. In my opinion, a client is a fool to allow a guide to dictate the terms of what to do with a legal fish. If you catch a fish of a lifetime that is 40 or 50 pounds, no one has the right to demand that you released that fish. Let it go they will tell you; you can always get a graphite replica. Now what I am going to say next may be offensive to some people reading this, but I don't care, I'm being honest. A graphite mount is a liar's mount; plain and simple. Once you released a fish you can make it anything you want it to be. You call it a 46inch fish or 48 inch fish or a 50 inch fish. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying all graphite mounts are lies; he'll no. There are a lot of honest respectable fishermen out there, but there are a lot of liars out there also. This is a cutthroat sport and business. A real fish mount is the real thing. In my opinion, it's the honest way to mount a caught fish.
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