The Week in Fish Pictures~ Week #43 July 27th 2007- Aug 2nd 2007

Absolutely Awesome!! I'm just getting started, so i hope to have some pictures to show soon!

Jason

 

Nice. Like the carp, Bruch bass, and Katula Brown the best....

All I have are two commercial, wholesale fish.

Repro Mahi Mahi..sorry for the background, no time to "cut"



Walleye skin mount. The flash really intensified the white....

 

Here's a replica I posted before but I'll post it again. And a skin brown

 

VERY nice bluegill. Not an easy fish to pull off with convincing results.

 

Here's a lake trout from a lake in Canada's Yukon Territory. The customer 'gutted' it before delivery but made a mold and cast anyway.



Thanks for all the great postings!
jerry

 

Rick, Thanks for posting the pic.s. Inspiring to say the least. That bluegill blows me away. Did you get any other pic.s of it (angles, close-ups)? I would love to add those to my reference porfolio. Thanks.

 

Love the Bass by Kenneth Bauman.
Oh and that Atlantic is insane!

30" Brown Trout custom mold/cast

 

My fourth attempt at a Brown Trout. This one is a reproduction. Excuse the base, not sure how I want to finish it yet.

 

Wow...those browns are great. Very beautiful work! You guys with your coldwater posts make me wish I had more trout work around here...Texas.
I absolutely love to paint trout, and truly enjoy seeing the many variations in color and shape on those buggers! Great eye candy, or "fish porn" as they called it in the last fly fishing magazine I read. LOL

The pics from the show are outstanding for sure. Both of the bass were sweet....the Brownies, the bluegill, all works of fine art.

Ive been skinning and mounting for 2 weeks, so I should have some wholesale stuff to post soon. :

Really outstanding stuff everyone!!!

 

Rick,
Thanks for the post of the winners. My carp is a tough item to photo. And a huge thanks for your informative seminars. For the ones that have never sat thru a Rick Krane Seminar , you are missing out.The information anyone gets is way beyond what the seminar is about!!! During the slow times Rick is exploding with more knowledge ,that most people can take notes. Many Taxidermist can produce great mounts but few can produce and teach then keep the intrest of the crowd like Rick.
THANKS SO MUCH!!

THE TRASHFISH
Terry Weick

 

Thanks for the plug Rick. Only one problem, you have moved me about 90 miles to the South. I am actually an Okie. Anyway, here is the shot Ken Edwards did at nationals of my bass, it is a little better photo. And thanks for all the great seminar tips. I enjoyed meeting you and look forward to seeing you in the future. Congratulations to Frank, Tim and all the other winners. The carp was very eye catching.

 

Wish I could have made it to the NTA show. Those are some really great looking fish. Congratulations to the winners.

 

Absolutely, an outstanding bluegill...

 

GREAT LOOKING FISH! AA love that brown, that is one color phase that i have the hardset time getting to look right and you nailed it!

 

I should if all goes well have a few fish in here this week.
Here is the first.
A replica of a 10" Inland Redband trout
This was a chore to work up.
It is a wall piece and is attached through the base of the tail via a brass rod, that is soldered to the copper leaf and is attached to the base of the rock.
Not only that, scale tipping is a pain in the rear on a 10" fish LOL

 

What absolute gems have been posted this week! Kudos to everyone creating and sharing such incredibly beautiful work. I wouldn’t even know where to begin on trying to pick my favorites, and most certainly there is no shortage of talent in the fish taxidermy world! I’d love to be able to chat with each of you about your fish projects, because the enthusiasm you are obviously putting into your projects would be very contagious.

Well, freshly finished from me this week is a 22 lb. Steelhead (38.5x21) from an Olympic Peninsula river. It’s a skin mount with a cast head, but the natural fins. I know I have said it before, but I think these large salmonids will look more proportionate, realistic, and attractive if cast fins are used on a skin mount. One of these days I will take my own advice, even when it requires twisting my client’s arm.

I find doing a realistic darker salmonid much more difficult than doing a realistic bright salmonid. I have yet to find that desirable combination of color balance so that all areas of the fish appear in comparative and/or complementing hues to each other as on the real fish. I just can’t be thankful enough that there are people that will actually come and pay me for my mistakes and take the offending critter away with them to haunt me no more, and so that I can try to get the next one hopefully just a little closer.