Picking your favorite fish replica is kind of like picking your favorite child – they all have different pros and cons. Of the eight mounts we have, my cutthroat is the smallest, but it provides a disproportionate amount of joy. I caught it on our 10^th anniversary trip to Triple Creek Ranch in Montana in 2015.

From Biggie to the Stones to Britney, these songs spark adrenaline, nostalgia, and epic fishing vibes across all of our global fishing adventures.

Mahi Mahi make great tattoo subjects. One thing that often makes them even better is addition of flying fish. While we’ve seen plenty of both in the wild, we’ve yet to see this precise scene. We’ll have to keep on looking. In the meantime, here are some artists’ renditions.

Discover the incredible arapaima (pirarucu) scales, their evolutionary armor, stylish jewelry and apparel, and how to experience these giants on an amazing fishing trip in the Bolivian Amazon.

We’ve made argument that mahi mahi are potentially the world’s greatest gamefish, and we’ve shown you a mailbox manufactured to look like one. They’re also on plenty of stamps — here are some that we found.

Which is harder to understand: An Upper Midwest accent or one from South Louisiana? We put them to the test to find out during a recent swamp photography workshop.

Catching a marlin is arguably the pinnacle experience for a sportfisherman. Whether it’s your first or your 500th, it’s an achievement that merits a drink or two. No beverage contained by a screw top will suffice. Here are tools that’ll help you access your elixir of choice:

Explore stunning golden dorado tattoos inspired by Argentina’s river kings. Get ink inspiration and plan your golden dorado fishing adventure on a Half Past First Cast hosted trip at Don Joaquin River Lodge.

I expect that we’ll visit Australia sometime in the next decade. While we’re there, I want to fish for all sorts of exotic species, but I’ll probably be most disappointed if we don’t tangle with barramundi. In the meantime, I’m exploring some different barra art, including tattoos.

Sheefish are really just big whitefish, but they do grow big and more importantly they’re sufficiently rare and isolated that even many of my most globetrotting angling friends have yet to catch one. That might merit a replica. There aren’t that many out there.

You can certainly catch billfish in easily-accessible places but there’s something special about chasing them in exotic. We’ve loved our trips to Central America and look forward to branching out to places like French Polynesia. Maybe that’ll inspire us to get a tribal marlin or sailfish tattoo.

Fugu is the Japanese name for pufferfish. In Japanese cuisine they’re a delicacy which require careful preparation to avoid the poison known as tetrodotoxin. There are a number of beers named after this legendary and photogenic fish, none of which are known to be poison.

As much as I’d like a replica mount of a striped marlin, our little house just won’t support it. Accordingly, I’ve let my mind drift to the idea of a striped marlin painting. It doesn’t necessarily fix our problem of not having much wall space to spare, but it still allows me to daydream in advance of the real deal.

Last year a group of anglers caught a leucistic Pacific sailfish in Guatemala. I thought that leucistic was just another word for albino, but it turns out they’re not quite the same. I’ve never seen an albino fish in the wild but after a bit of exploring, it turns out there have been a number of leucistic and albino fish caught around the globe in recent years.

Some people love to fish in silence but I think that music makes the experience better — especially if it’s somehow related to the locale or the species you’re chasing. Here are four favorite fishing songs plus a bonus track.

I purchased waterproof cards from Rainforest Publications and Franko Maps to identify the marine life in Panama. They fit in my boat bag and have already come in handy a few times. With that in mind, I purchased Rainforest’s “Mexico Marine Guide: Pacific Coast, Sea of Cortez” for our upcoming trip.

Five-time New York Yankees manager Billy Martin had a bit of a fishing pedigree, but I’m not sure his lure endorsement meant a lot — nevertheless, his Sneaky Snake jointed lure occupies a prime space in my office.

When you’re using one of the various finesse techniques popularized in the age of forward facing sonar, it pays to learn a loop knot. They provide the extra action trigger strikes from wary bass. Here are the experts’ tutorials on how to get it done.

I can’t decide if barracuda are underrated as a species. They’re often seen as a nuisance fish, but they’re strong, aggressive and prolific. Often they’ll bite when no other fish will. So perhaps we should celebrate them a bit more. The following six brewers have already done so.

When we go back to Brazil I’m going to make it a point to capture some whiskered giants. In fact, I might choose our next location based on the opportunity to catch some big cats – with the intent of getting redtail catfish replica. They’re super-cool looking and would be a nice river monster trophy.