The Week in Fish Pictures~ Year 2# Week#27

[Rick Krane]

The Week in Fish Pictures~ Year 2# Week#27

Greetings from Hinsdale New Hampshire!!! Over a half a year in to the second year and we all have benefited from this string! I want to say thank you personally to all of you for participating and making this a great place to share and appreciate each others work and efforts!

WOW what a great week we all shared in this past week in fish pictures! There was some really inspirational fish work last week I hope you all had a great week my friends and family of Fishheads!!! Lets start off with some Big time thanks to our great contributors this past week!

Great work last week by Fishstuffer, Aaron Stehling, John C, Brian Watson, Jimmy Lawrence, Jeff Sonner,  FENCEROW, Wild Bill, Doug Petrousek, Jeff Lumsden, Marc, taflinger, Mike D, and Doc Esox!!!!!

Super work and Big thanks for sharing and aspiring all of us!

From beginner's to the best in the world we all join in every week in a critique free and hassle free string with nothing more then great artist and inspiring fish taxidermist and carves get together to share with one another their praise and inspiration of good will and friendship to one another.

This week I am especially proud! From time to time I show a fish or two that I finish but never am I more proud then when I get share the work of some one I had the opportunity and pleasure to work with and teach. Each and every day I thank God for my gifts and my blessings as a taxidermist and a teacher of taxidermy. This past week was very special for me and for a few very fine taxidermist who I had the pleasure to spend time with. Mr. Bill Willis of MI won his first Blue ribbon and best Professional fish! Mr. Paul Czarnecki won several awards with his Brown trout in Ohio! We all have goals and strive for them and when we meet them it is a great day to know that hard work and lots of time can be rewarding!

I want to share with you a very special day for a gentleman I’m proud to call a friend! Mr. Cory Foth Of Dole Creek Taxidermy Studios of PEABODY, Kansas!
Cory has been a dedicated Stuart of good taxidermy and a helping friend to many of us here who know him! Cory reached a goal and surpassed his own dream! Cory won Best of show and the Breakthrough Award at the Kansas State show!  Here is some of the work of Mr. Cory Foth!

I hope you enjoy the week!
So with out further ado lets get week #27 under way.

So here we go and here is to a great week in fish pictures!!!! #27! Enjoy!

Uncle Dave I Still hope your wrist gets better!

My Best!
Your friend
Rick Krane

Cory’s Award winning Bullhead!

Cory’s Bass with a unique concept!

[Trashfish]

Hey Rick,
  It's not Friday yet. Anyhow ,glad you are on the ball as usual with" The week in fish". Congrats Cory and Bill W. for your winning entry's. Looking forward to seeing more of you guys.

Terry

[Terry]

Cory... Nice looking fish! My grandmother would have liked that bullhead; she delighted in fishing for and eating the pesky little things. Congrats on the KS convention... it's nice to see the work of a fellow Kansan featured by Rick to begin a week.

I finished a fish tonight, so I get to share this week. Customer mount for a gentleman from Minnesota, 29 inch chum salmon, skin mount, artificial head. This is the first skin mount chum I have had the opportunity to do and new is always fun. Two photos, different angles/lighting.

I very much look forward to seeing this week's offerings unfold.

To one and all... Have a terrific Friday.

[Jknuth]

Nice looking Chum Terry!!

And I LOVE the Bullhead! I cant wait until Iceout to go chase the slimy buggers
Congrats

[Dave Smith]

I swear I have a cut-throat ALMOST done! Until then, all I got is birds- he he. Here is that turkey sculpture all cast and painted- next week: fish, FISH! FISH! Beautiful cat and bass- AWESOME chum- I love chums- that one is a beauty.

[crankin]

Dave awesome job on that hen!

Terry very nice chum

congrats Cory nice fish!

[Wild Bill]

Congrats Cory !! Terry love the Chum. Here's a 17 Ib. Lake Trout skin mount.

[John C]

Here is my catfish I molded and cast, later sold it to another taxidermist.


Heres a Brown trout about 10lbs skin mount.



Heres a pic from 35 years ago.

[DougP]

Congratulations Cory! Beautiful pieces...!!

Terry....great job on the chum. I'm envious! I've never done a chum in that color phase. Looks like fun, eh?

Dave....that turkey is terrific....wish I had the ability to do that!! Very cool !!

Wild Bill .....lakers are tough to pull off, at least for me. You did a really great job, looks very natural. Nice job on the spotting.

 JohnC...cool catfish and brown!!  I assume that's a White river brown. WOW! 35yrs ago! John...we're gettin' old!!

Here's two customer skin mounts w/custom cast heads I just finished.

Lookin' forward to seeing this week's pics!!

[Cory]

Thanks to all!!  There are a lot of people to thank, and a lot of the help comes from here.  First I would need to thank the Kansas Association of Taxidermist.  With their guidance and the strong desire to educate young taxidermists and show the public that what can be done is artful, not just "stuffed", inspired me from my first competition.  Rick sure sent me through boot camp and taught me that learning fish is anatomy, anatomy and anatomy! (And I'm almost sure I'll never get it perfect!) LOL   Gary Bruch wrote the article in Breakthrough that helped me cast the bullhead, fins also.  I've never felt my work compared to the best on here, as I see most of you guys seem untouchable.  But I keep trying.  Without you guys posting pics, showing different ideas and answering questions, I have no idea where I would be right now.  It sure seems unreal, but thanks again to everyone.

[HOLMES]

Great fish so far, and that hen is amazing Dave! Really like the brown to John.

[Travis]

Wow! What a great start.  Great looking fish! Always a true inspiration! Terry, Love the Dog, one of my all time favorite fish, great job! Dougp, Breathtaking as always! Thanks for sharing! Nothing from me this week. I hope to have something done soon.

[Wild Bill]

Thanks Dougp your work is always an inspiration to me. Someday I'll figure out how to improve the lighting while taking Pics.

[Terry]

Nice work everyone! Wild Bill... that's a really nice laker; it's spot for many that I have seen. I have yet to be able to do one, but hope to someday (maybe when Josh offers his blank available to the public).

Dave, thanks for the painful reminder that I live in the only state in the union withOUT turkeys.   And my internal clock tells me that season is starting very soon in KS....

Doug... WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! to both of those. It takes me soooo long to take in all the detail you are able to impart to your fish... and then to consider how you probably did some of the stuff you do. One of the true- for me- of this thread is viewing the work of those individuals on here who show us how high the bar can be raised.

[Marc]

Everything is KILLER!! Gorgeous work. Cory...your stuff is awesome.
 Doug, Your fish rock!...May I ask...did you use a frisket for the gold tipping on the back of that Brown?  It looks great! I sometimes use a plastic type screen to get a result (though not as nice) something like that.