Sharks and Tuna Weeks

Sharks and Tuna Weeks~!
Answered a bunch of requests, including the very colorful laurel dace, and added several scatter patterns of plankton, tunas, offshore and reef fish, and of course, sharks, including offshore sharks, and deep sea sharks!

tight lines, calm seas, and BE SAFE!
Bryce

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

Odd fishes and Plankton

Odd fishes and Plankton

Plankton are microscopic organisms that form the base of the ocean, lake, and river food chains.  There are two big categories: Phytoplankton which are the photosynthetic things, and the zooplankton, which are the things that eat the light using phytoplankton.   I started drawing a few interesting types of zooplankton, and they are now in the pile (awaiting spoonflower push, but in cafepress, etc.):

• Two copepods so far.  Copepods are crustaceans related distantly to shrimp. 
• Calanus Copepod
•  a deep water copepod
• Cyclopoida Copepod
• This one is very common in pond or ocean water, easily visible in a home microscpe.
• Another odd crustacean: Cystisoma Hyperiid
• Giant eyes and looks more like a cross between a fly and a shrimp
• A microscopic deep worm: Tomopteris Polychaete
• A sea slug we saw on a research trip to Panama City Beach a decade ago: a Nudibranch  
• More will follow

Also added a fish that I like to catch in the Mississippi river on a fly rod: the Skipjack (Shad) Herring. Jumps like a tarpon, and is food for many large predatory fish.

Also will be adding more European saltwater fishes, and did add the John Dory (Zeus, St. Peters) Fish. It is definitely a time consuming draw, but worth it. 

Tight lines, calm seas, and be careful with your eyepieces!

Bryce