Decided to revamp my sharks...they looked caartoony and needed some upgrades (and less marky signage), so I redrew the tiger shark and shortfin mako shark. This allowed bigger versions in spoonflower and cafepress that actually look ok. Next will likely upgrade lemon, blue, and several others to make them look more dangerous.
Tight lines,
Bryce
Adding sunfish!
Finally starting to sweep through the Sunfish/Black bass family of temperate freshwater fish!
Many are very colorful, and I have good pictures of most. Started with the redbreast sunfish (a sunfish with little teeth and a mean disposition), now out.
Will next add a few I forgot in the past, like Pumpkinseeds, Warmouth, and the like. Then redo bluegill, redears, and greenies.
For anyone with broad experience in fishes, note that the panfish shape is common, and some look alike fish to the sunfishes include blue tilapia (and many cichlids), some characins, porgies like pinfish and sheepshead, and some snappers like gray snapper.
Tight lines and calm seas,
Bryce
If you are interesting in seeing a set of space presentations by astronauts, space experts, and other space enthusiasts like your truly,
the National Space Society International Space Development Conference (NSS ISDC) 2021 is FREE and On-line :
Schedule is here:
https://isdc2021.nss.org/home/schedule/schedule-at-a-glance/
My two presos (yes, pre-recorded) are at 10:50 AM PDT and 1:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
Enjoy the Day!
Bryce
Bullhead catfish, aka, mudcats, or yellow catfish are an interesting set of smaller catfishes, that are related to channel catfish, blue catfish, flathead catfish, and madtoms, and can live in the worst fish habitats just fine.
Drew up biologically accurate version of white bullhead..an eastern USA catfish often confused with channel catfish, and then brown bullheads which are in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins, and then black bullheads, found in the same spots as the brown bullhead and often confused with them.
When I was a kids I caught these fish in creeks fed by raw sewer output, but these medium sized catfish had no issues. They were also stocked in city lakes in KC and STL before these ponds were cleaned up in the 1980-1990s. They inhabit backwater sloughs and marshes, and can be caught in very shallow water. They are also quite edible, having eaten many over the years, even if maligned. They are also a forage fish for flathead catfish that love to snap them up, and largemouth bass that can't resist them, spines or no. A very kid-friendly fish that bites the bobber and worm (or hot dog piece) even on very hot days!
Look for my bullhead designs in cafepress here: https://www.cafepress.com/combatfishingmidwestrivertown
and soon in spoonflower here:
https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/combatfish?sort=new
tight lines,
Bryce
Mosaic Stained Glass Style Art
I went a bit more abstract lately and started drawing various fish as if I was an ancient Roman or middle ages artist either putting the deign in a floor (like I saw in 2019 in Pompeii) or in a church window.
So taking the basic fish shape, I collected dozens of sample surfaces (mostly marble, some melted glass, and shells) and used them as the elements in the designs.
SO I did up some Cafepress designs for Mahis, Tuna, clownfish, and Rainbow Trout:
Mahi: https://www.cafepress.com/CombatFishingOffshoreFish/17241130
Tuna: https://www.cafepress.com/CombatFishingOffshoreFish/17240535
Clownfish: https://www.cafepress.com/CombatFishingDeepSeaFishesShop/17247139
Rainbow Trout: https://www.cafepress.com/CombatFishingGreatLakesFishshop/17245170
There are also some new Spoonflower designs as a result, tuna and mahi for now, rainbow trout and clownfish soon:
https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/combatfish?sort=new
like so:
https://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/11398228
Tight Lines and Fair Seas,
Bryce
