Lax is one of a handful of places around the country doing this work, and the company professes to have the largest supply of sizes and molds in the world. People display their replicas anywhere from mantles to man-caves. The trophies can mount directly on the wall, sit on a base of driftwood or a plaque or even balance on a pedestal. The angler can choose if they want the trophy to replicate how the musky looks in the photo or if they want any other pose.
The company uses the photo and measurements to build your fish trophy, using two-part polymer plastic molds taken from muskies caught in days gone by. If you can, you measure the fish's length and girth and then release it back into the lake. About 30 musky replicas hang in the showroom in a variety of poses: teeth bared, chasing a school of perch, facing left or right. Lax has a combined studio and showroom in Conover, Wis. The company started transitioning to replicas in the '90s after amassing hundreds of molds of actual muskies. "We can do about anything," says Rick Lax, who took over Lax Reproductions from his father in 2003, referring to poses, patterns, and styles of musky reproductions. Fishing guide Colin Crawford explains the protocol. To protect the state's musky population from decline, like the extirpation of the Great Lakes muskies in Green Bay more than 30 years ago by commercial fishing, and to ensure the ecosystem of the thousands of lakes in Wisconsin's Northwoods, some fishermen practice catch and release. And basically, your job as a guide is to prepare the people for what might happen." "It's a challenge because it's a difficult fish to catch," Jackson says. Northwoods fishing guide Ken Jackson describes the adventure as "hours of boredom followed by seconds of panic." It's sometimes called " the fish of 10,000 casts," as it's so elusive.
The muskellunge long, more popularly called the musky, is Wisconsin's state fish and it's known as a freshwater equivalent of the barracuda. That's happening now in Wisconsin's Northwoods, a north central area of the state with more than 3200 lakes, streams and rivers, as anglers turn to replica trophies to celebrate snagging the notorious musky-a freshwater predator that can span up to 5 feet and weigh up to 70 lbs.
Imagine catching a trophy fish and celebrating with a mount of your big catch on the wall, but only after you actually released the fish back into the lake. Northwoods fishing guide Colin Crawford holds a Lax Reproductions musky replica he won in a musky league in 2019.
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