The Week in Fish Pictures~ Week #27 April 2007- Aprill 12 2007

[Rick Krane]

The Week in Fish Pictures~ Week #27 April 2007- Aprill 12 2007

Good Morning from Elkins WV, The home of Chad See and Mount'n Critters taxidermy Studio. Yes I'm still in Beautiful WV doing a workingshop with Mr. See.It is truly a beautiful; state for sure!
Week # 27 is upon us. Thanks to everyone who has participated last week! Well Over few thousand hits!!! Huge!!!!!! This is one of the fastest growing if not the fastest growing strings on the forum! It is because you share your talent and knowledge with others in a positive friendly manner! Folks need to see that learning is not about any thing then having fun and appreciating great work! Here's to all of you!

Last week we had some Great Fish from a lot of giving folks who don't mind sharing and helping others with some inspiration and cool fish!

We had lots of new folks and some folks who haven't been with us for a while! Welcome and Welcome back! The work this past week was nothing short of breath taking and the artist who shared take a bow for your beautiful efforts!

Each week Pictures can be posted of recent work or work your proud of to show and share with your pears!
 
Everyone is welcome to post, from beginners to the advanced.

So here goes! I thought I would start out this week with a nice Dave Campbell Repro of a Steelhead. Chad Spent some time this week working on painting and finishing of a reproduction as well as some advance fish work for skin mounts. Here is a picture of Chads Steelie he finshed yesterday.   
Have a great week!!!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and Support!

Rick Krane

[JasonMoe]

25 inch walleye caught under 1-90 bridge, north side shopko, LaCrosse Wi...mounted by Moe's Taxidermy, caught by Vern Schermerhorn.  The head had bright blue highlights.  I used lifetone Iridescent blue on the head to bring it out. Even after 18 hours in liqua-cure, the blue stayed in the head.  I have pictures of the fresh fish too.  I luckily had great field care because the wife of the fisherman diddled around  with fish taxidermy 20 years ago. She said it was 21 inches.  It was a heck of alot bigger than that.  It was 25 inches.  She brought it in on ice, I wish half the fish people bring in are fresh. Oh well, I love monster walleye. I only use wayne cooper aqua eyes, they are them most realistic.  Dan Reinharts are crap.

[Perca]

Jason,
  Interesting you mentioned BLUE on the walleye. I've been to Canada and caught a very few walleyes and pike that were all blue. Very interesting...eh? The pike had absolutely NO light "bean" spots. They were just all blue.  Adding irridescent blue as the final color on the back(dorsal) is something I apply on almost all freshwater fish that I do. 

[joe simmons]

here is a hybrid striper  that i took to the wvta show nothing special , but i am still learning fish with under twenty to my credit and first striper.

[Cooter]

Hello Mr.krane
great thing you started with people with posting pic of there work,its like
i can not wait until Friday to see what fish will be posted,i know you have help
my brother mcole with his basses,so thanks again...

[Trashfish]

Here is a 27 lb Northern. This is a customer piece, I wish I could get one this size for myself.

[DougP]

Beeeauuutiiiifuuulll steelhead Chad....!!!! Kudos Rick Krane!! Jason & Joe....nice job!!
Here's a couple recent skin mounts. The pike was really beat up! Had what appeared to be a healed spear hole in the back. Sides were scraped badly....another funfish, eh? Perch were a "piece 'o cake"

Trashfish.....OUTSTANDING!! Did you do the case/table...?? Is that a skin mount or replica

[Jimmy Lawrence]

Great work everyone!!  Fish are truly amazing aren't they?

[thunder]

hey i have a great idea.why not post the picture of the fish then list the paint schedule under it.it would be great help to some of us.

[Glenn M.]

Sweeeeet steelhead Chad, looks like you just caught it out of that creek. Everyone else, thanks for sharing your pictures !

Thunder, I would like to help you, but I never write anything down. Like Marty said the other day sometimes I wish I would have. ...Here's a couple pictures of some of the work I got done this week. The one crappie dried so dark I had to do a complete white out ugh ! Everyone have a nice weekend 

[Glenn M.]

Here's the other one I hope

[John C]

Could like be me, I dont use paint schedules. There are a basic set of colors and from those its how the photos look and just matching them.

The basic colors are posted in previous post.

[FishArt]

Nothing from me this week. Had the boys off for Spring break the previous week and now they have a 4 day weekend, so not much getting done in the shop. Just some general comments:

Chad - WOW! That Steelie DOES look like it was just caught.

Jason - I've never had the pleasure of seeing any of these odd colored Walter's. Certainly pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

Joe - very nice job on the striper. I wish I had a few more customer's that requested closed mouth's. I think they look pretty neat! Is that a replica? Artificial head on a skin mount? Nice detail.

TF - incredible job on that pike!!! Love the (fish) positioning and the sense of movement you've created in both directions with the fish and the habitat.

Doug - I'm tired of praising your work - lol! As usual, nice crisp mounts with great artistic presentation!

Glen - nice crappies! The rebuilding you've done in the heads is simply incredible. Somebody has got some good close-up shots AND attention to detail!!!

Alright, back to the animals - gotta break up another fight!!!

[Pescado]

  Here was a work in progress, the polymer-trout. I cast the body with IE 3030 and the fins are IE 3025. I am in the process of casting up another one, maybe for next Friday's pictures.

 Paul B

[dbess]

Fine trout......