Odd art, fleshing out combinations, and dinosaur sharks

 Odd art, fleshing out combinations, and dinosaur sharks

Redid my older drawing of the Megalodon, especially considering it is no longer considered just a large great white shark.  Megalodons now have their own family which means 'megateeth'. As a result I redrew the monster shark, taking a guess at coloration, and guessing a few other details, given teeth and latest research. That reseign shows here:

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/13246411-megalodon-v22-by-combatfish

and here

https://www.cafepress.com/clownfishbutton/11854772

among other spots.

I also drew up an ancient freshwater shark, a true river monster of the distant past, the Xenacanthus. This beast was only around 4 feet or so, but had a giant spike on its head, and prowled through the Devonian to Triassic times.  I again took some liberty with coloration, guessing that a swamp or river shark would likely be colored much like a bowfin or gar. 

https://www.cafepress.com/clownfishbutton/17327440

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/13234248-xenacanthus-ancient-freshwater-shark-by-combatfish

then made some interesting combo patterns for the paleontologist or dino lover at home:

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/13311629-10-extinct-sea-monsters-scatter-4in-on-cyan-by-combatfish

the added several more snappers and the like, including Emperor snappers (juvenille):

https://www.cafepress.com/combatfishingdeepseafishesshop/17333061

Then a combo like so:

https://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/t-shirt/men/3-indo-pacific-snappers/1843851/ 

note that I also put all my combat-fishing gear on the design by humans site also:

https://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/CombatFish/

Enjoy,

Bryce

Gobies, and Chum Salmon

 (FYI..all my single fish and other drawings (minus patterns) are here: https://www.combat-fishing.com/DesignFishCafeCatalog.html though patterns with the same fishes mostly go here: http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/combatfish )

Drew up a few interesting gobies:

The Pinkbar Goby is another Indo-Pacific goby that is reef and rock oriented,

though 

Bluebanded Gobies are a cold water fish found in the Pacific off California, especially near urchins and kelp forests. 

I also drew up the last of my Pacific Salmons....the Chum or Dog Salmon.  It is often considered lessor behind King (Chinook) or Coho (Silver) or Sockeye (Kokanee) salmon, though it is bigger then the Pink Salmon. Since my skill has improved over time it is the most real-looking salmon of the bunch.  Note that Rainbow Trout (Steelhead), Cutthroat Trout (and Sea-Run variant), Golden Trout, Masu Salmon (Cherry Trout), Gila Trout, and Apache Trout all part of the Pacific Salmon and Trout Complex (i.e. Oncorhynchus). 

tight lines,

Bryce

Fishes and Fishes

 Have been pretty busy with my day job, but I have also been drawing many patterns and fishes.

Everything pops up here (my Master Site) and on my Spoonflower Site.

First, I answered several requests in spoonflower for peacock bass, marlin and tuna patterns.  All posted on spoonflower.

Then I add some odd abstract patterns of loops and tuna and trevally, the kind that look good on shirts, curtains, and sheets. 

As far as new fish, I have been looking for the interesting and fishes that I have yet to draw so drew up:

Lookdowns, which have an interesting profile, and like to hang around reefs, bridges, and piers. A jack family fish.

Kob, which are huge saltwater gamefish of bays and estuaries from South Africa related to White Sea Bass, Weakfish,  Blackspot Croaker, and Spotted Seatrout.

Scrawled Butterflyfish, which are pretty reef fish just like the other butterflyfish.

Leaping Bonito, a colorful fast saltwater fish between tuna and mackerel, found around Australia.

More oddities

Oddities out finally...

In addition to lots of plankton and turtles hitting the Spoonflower side, I have started adding some fish I wanted to draw for a long time, because I catch them.
Goldeyes are a member of the Mooneye family, and are all over the northern half of North America, in the Mississippi river basin and Great Lakes drainages.  Canadians like to smoke them into a fish dish, I just like to catch them on the fly, as they are a great 2wgt flyrod fish that is a jumper. They have a close relative that I have yet to draw, the mooneye.  I also dropped in an Australian fishing fish, the Talang Queenfish ( a jack), and a fish I caught lots in the Florida Panhandle (especially Pensacola Bay), the White (Sand) Seatrout.  The White Seatrout is oft confused with both the silver seatrout, and silver perch, and is a croaker, of the weakfish branch (as is the White Seabass in California, and the Tortuaba from the Sea of Cortez).   There is some argument that the white seatrout is really a subspecies of weakfish that is minus spots. Whatever you call them, they are a fun fish that is roughly a pound and likes to bite at night. 
I also updated the Master Catalog to make is load far faster.

Enjoy, tight lines, and be safe,
Bryce

Cute little ignored fishy: Salema

The Salema grunt(Xenistius californiensis)

(for a real picture: http://www.combat-fishing.com/Salema1BelomntShoresPierPacificOceanCA06Nov2019wra.jpg )

In addition to my continuing shark updates for the deep sea sharks (updated the frilled shark...what an odd beastie to be sure! and added the smoothhound shark too, and fixed the sixgill shark and sevengill shark) I added a cute little fish that one sees when fishing light under the lights of SoCal bay piers (Belmont Veterans pier is a perfect example) : the Salema (grunt) (Xenistius californiensis). It is a yellow-orange striped fish that looks like a white bass, yellow bass (which is of the same size range too) or baby striped bass that got dipped in colorful paints.  Like many cases in nature its looks are due to convergent evolution, i.e. even though the Salema is a grunt, and the yellow bass is a temperate bass, they are both schooling fish that eat small invertebrates and small fishes.  Not to be confused with the Mediterranean Salema (a porgy, that looks like a pinfish which is also a porgy). Interesting ly enough, you could theoretically catch the deep sea sharks mentioned above and the little Salema on the same pier, but likely not on the same tackle!

Tight lines and calm seas,
Bryce