Sea Mount — hand-painted fibreglass fish mounts, shipped Australia-wide

Yes. Every mount is packed and freighted anywhere in Australia — Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the ACT. Metro, regional and remote addresses are all covered, and freight is quoted with your order once we know the species, the size and the delivery postcode.

No. This is not taxidermy. Every mount is cast from an existing mould taken off a true trophy specimen, so your fish can go back in the water or in the esky. All we need is the species, the length in millimetres, and photos if you want the paint matched to your exact fish.

A skin mount uses the animal itself, so it can shrink, split, oil through the paint and fade over the years. A fibreglass replica is a sculpted, hand-painted shell — lightweight, dimensionally stable, and it does not decay. It hangs on standard wall fixings and looks the same in twenty years as it does on delivery.

Listed prices run from about A$85 for a baitfish mount up to A$5,930 for the largest billfish, and every price on the site is for a mount hand-painted on one side. Painting both sides is available at additional cost and is quoted on enquiry, as is custom paint-matching to your own catch. See the full collection and pricing.

One side is hand-painted as standard, and every price listed on the site is for a single painted side. That is the finish most mounts are hung with, since the mount sits against a wall. Painting both sides is available at additional cost and is quoted on enquiry.

Yes — send photos of your catch and we paint the mould to that fish: the bar pattern it carried, the flush in the gill plate, the fade it had when it came over the side. Custom paint-matching is quoted on enquiry. Without photos, the mount is painted in the species' true reference colours as standard. More on custom painting.

Yes — and more often than people expect. Fish in the same family are built to the same shape, so once the colour is off, the bare fibreglass body of one is the body of the other: a lot of the demersal and reef species are impossible to tell apart in the unpainted glass. A mould therefore does not have to stay the fish it is listed as. Where the body form matches, we hand-paint it in a completely different species' colours — different markings, different pattern, a different fish on the wall — so plenty of Australian species that are not listed for sale can still be made. Tell us the fish you are after and the length, and we will tell you which mould it comes off. Quoted on enquiry. More on custom painting.

We work from existing moulds only — we do not make new moulds. The collection covers 114 mounts across billfish, sharks and rays, tuna and pelagics, reef and bottom fish, inshore, freshwater and baitfish. If you cannot find your species, ask: there is often a very close body form in the range, and it can be painted as the fish you want. Browse every species A–Z.

No. The finish is UV-stable, so it will not oil through, split or fade the way a skin mount can, and it needs no climate control and no conditioning. Keep it out of direct weather and dust it the way you would anything else on the wall.

Because it is fibreglass rather than a skin mount, it is light enough for standard wall fixings — no reinforced mounting and no backing board. Hangers are fitted before it ships, so hanging it is a matter of finding your fixing points and lifting it into place.

Each mount is painted by hand to order, so lead time depends on the species, the size and whether you have asked for a custom paint-match. We confirm the current build window and the freight time to your postcode in writing when we quote, before anything is paid.

Fibreglass is light, but the bill, the fins and the tail are the fragile parts, so each mount is braced and boxed to survive a cross-country truck rather than a short courier run. Longer billfish ship in a purpose-built crate. Freight is door to door and tracked, and remote and island addresses are no problem — they simply take longer, and we tell you how much longer before you commit.

Yes. Mounts are photographed before delivery, so you see the real mount and the real paint — not a catalogue render — before it goes on the truck. See the gallery.

Start with an enquiry: the species, the length in millimetres, your suburb, state and postcode, and photos if you want a custom paint-match. We come back with a delivered price — the mount, the paint and the freight, in one number — before anything is paid.