The fish are real. I got one of them done last year and had it mounted on the same piece of driftwood. It was 3 lbs 1 oz. I pulled it off and mounted it up top. The other two I caught this year a 3 lbs 6 oz and a 3 lbs 2 oz.
It cost me 200 per fish, but I found the driftwood along old #8 hwy in Grenada lake bottom.
Arnold at Stanford taxidermy mounted the fish. It was a team effort to attach the ones with the wire, but we got it.