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Title: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: Selfbowman on July 27, 2020, 06:22:39 pm

What is required to prepare the fish skins to back a bow? Arvin

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: loefflerchuck on July 27, 2020, 10:36:13 pm

Scrape flesh off. Same as snakeskin. They shrink if you cut them on wet and should never come off if your glue is good

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: sleek on July 28, 2020, 12:54:19 am

Its my understanding from talking to a taxidermist that fish skins turn grey with age. Just an fyi.

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: GlisGlis on July 28, 2020, 03:37:10 am

do you need to degrease before drying or applying?

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: WhistlingBadger on July 28, 2020, 07:44:34 am

Quote from: GlisGlis on July 28, 2020, 03:37:10 am

do you need to degrease before drying or applying?

I was wondering that too.  I'm thinking maybe I should start saving some carp skins for trading.

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: Pat B on July 28, 2020, 08:17:08 am

I've only done carp skins and snake shins but I always wash with warm water and Dawn detergent and rinse well with warm water. I do the same with the bow but rinse it with boiling water. After that both glue surfaces are clean, hydrated and prepped for gluing.

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: HH~ on July 28, 2020, 08:45:16 am

Skin em flesh em secure em dry em.

Arvin my buddy Bart shot you bow. Shot a great score for first SB Shoot!!

Thanks
Shawn~

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: Selfbowman on July 28, 2020, 09:40:15 am

Man there was a lingcod that was about2” short. That would have made a beauty. Arvin

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: sleek on July 28, 2020, 09:44:23 am

Gadda buy you a fish stretcher. Or give their back a good massage and try yo pop their spine to make em longer.

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: Selfbowman on July 28, 2020, 12:22:15 pm

No sleek they where legal length just not quite long enough. Needed a 55” or over and was told those are pretty rare. We had a 43” that we caught. Slot 30-45 and then over 55”.

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: willie on July 28, 2020, 01:11:57 pm

Pics, or it didn't happen  >:D

around the campfire maybe? we want to hear about all the fish killin

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: HH~ on July 28, 2020, 06:34:10 pm

Halibut skins are nice, small long skinny eels are nice. Saw many nice Morrays i would have loved to have but skin is more like rawhide when there big.

Some Halibut has great stars on back!

HH~

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: Selfbowman on July 30, 2020, 07:00:18 am

Short story 3 men 150# of filets. Two pics.

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: Selfbowman on July 30, 2020, 07:02:23 am

Lots of pinks.

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: HH~ on July 30, 2020, 07:52:04 am

I love ground fishing. You can get into some tremendous fish of all kinds. No Silvers yet?

Shawn~

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: WhistlingBadger on July 30, 2020, 09:39:30 am

That's a great-looking catch!  I did my first deep-sea fishing trip last summer off Crescent City, Ca.  Caught four different kinds of rock-fish and ling cod.  Got sick as a dog in the big swells but didn't care.  I can put up with a LOT when the fishing's good!

Title: Re: Preparing halibut skins for bow backing?
Post by: willie on July 30, 2020, 11:35:17 am

I see smiles all round, and a nice catch too.
those ling cod don't look very bad with their mouths closed.