The Week in Fish Pictures~ Week #30 April 27 2007- May 3 2007

[Rick Krane]

The Week in Fish Pictures~ Week #30 April 27 2007- May 3 2007

Good Morning from New Hampshire! What a great week week in pictures this past week! I thank you for visiting and taking the time to share with us!!!
Week # 30 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 few more Breathtaking pieces serious fish art as well as a few of some friends we know here on this string! My other brothers from my mother via WA, and my other other brother from Norway just to mention a few! Later this week I will add more pictures of great fish work from the 2007 World show!!! So with out further ado!!!
Have a great week!!!

Rick Krane

Here is a really sweet Tiger trout from Our own Frank Kotula!


Here is our good friend Ollie with me after my seminar ( RED STAG ) also the best of show winner at the 2007 World Championships!


Here is a beautiful carving from a local New Englander! Carl Lewis from CT/NH


Very fishy crew here!!! Brother Dave Campbell and Brother Pete Harum keeping me from playing with the teeth on the Saber tooth tiger! LOL!


I wish I knew who's fish this was it was truly a wonderful Salmo Salzar!


Here is a Brookie from Dennis Nelson I loved this in person no picture does it Justis!


Have a great week I'll more later!!!

Rick

[Frank E. Kotula]

LOL Sure was a great week out there wasn't it Rick. Fishing was great along with all the new friends I made and fished with. Can't wait till the next show LOL.

[mrs.trout]

                  

                              Here is a brook trout replica I made and painted up this week. 22" with over a 15" girth, quite a chunk.
                                         

                                                                          Paul B AKA "Pescado"   (not Brenda)

                                                                                                         

[bdahyrt]

Here is a bluegill hybrid I finished up on thursday, pay no attention to the tail, I was experimenting with something, but it didn't turn out

[gorgo]

fantastic !

[Trashfish]

Well ,here is my contribution this week. I finished this beauty yesterday. I mounted the skin on a bowling pin and used a Horned Toad for the head. "lol"  Anyhow it was a fun skin mount to break up the week! This looks a great start for the week on those Fish photos, congrats everyone.

[Fish Whisperer]

Awesome brookie Pescado. Hope when I get to do one it turns out half as good as this one.

                  

                              Here is a brook trout replica I made and painted up this week. 22" with over a 15" girth, quite a chunk.
                                         

                                                                          Paul B AKA "Pescado"   (not Brenda)

                                                                                                         

[Dondi]

 Some Excellent fish this week from all....
Frank: Your Tiger trout looks great !  I don't see to many of them. Nice Job !
Dennis Nelson: Excellent Brook trout....great composition and color !
Brenda Sears: Very nice Brook trout ! I like the vermiculations you displayed on this Brookie !

 I have a West Slope Cutthroat this week....

[Dondi]

 Here is a close up of the head....

[FishArt]

Oh boy!!! I'm almost EMBARRASSED to post this one after all these colorful beauties - WOW! Oh well, here goes!

This is a 3.5# Black Crappie skin mount I recently finished for a customer along with my youngest boy BADLY in need of a haircut (Btw, he keeps asking to get an AFRO - what's with THAT???) Back to the mount. This fish took "Best in Show" here in Shorewood with me judging. (It was the only entry btw!)

[FishArt]

Some of the pinks and colors came out a tad goofy looking due to dropping the photo down in size I guess. Here's a close-up that was taken indoors that should show the colors closer to what they actually were. I DO like the previous photo though to gaina  perspective of how BIG that thing was!!!

Ahhhh, pinks still look goofy. (They aren't really there in some places - I'll bet you can guess where???) Oh well, good enough!!!

[Hawaiian Game Fish]

Just wanted to drop by and share a few that I was recently inspired to do after  talking to Mayhem. I really liked his bone fish so I did one mysefl and aslo a Pacific thread fin called a Moi here in Hawaii.
I molded a real reef and coral from silicone and casted my base in resin and fiberglass.

You guys have awesome work! Frank as usual masterful fish and basework, your my fish sensei!

Aloha
Layne

[Trashfish]

Hawaii game fish, it's great to see some odd fish, other than the everyday work load. But, those just might be your everyday work load. NOT MINE!

[Hawaiian Game Fish]

Yup, everyday fish for me.. I think we have similar types of fish in our waters like Florida.
But in Florida, they diffinitly got more awesome salt water game fish with those huge Tarpon, Snook, Permit, and red Fish.

I live on the Big Island and it is the youngest of all islands. We have very few fresh water ponds and most of them are brackish. So we do not have fresh water species here. The closest we have that I know of is  carp. Other than that, it's all marine fish.

There are freshwater species on the older islands like Oahu and Kauai. Large mouth bass, Rainbow trout, Tucanary.

[sparkyf]

WOW!!  Fantastic work everybody!!!!