Native Trout

New illustration for Floodplainsmag.com on what it means to be native.

Fly Fishing in Hell

“Out on the lake, fat predatory walleye prowled the nearshore for baitfish. Dozens of other anglers had come to the breakwall to cast glowing baits and rattling plugs, slowly retrieved in the hopes of hooking one of the year’s biggest walleye. Fish up to 30 inches and over ten pounds cruised the surface looking for shiners and shad in a vast food-web sprawling across this Great Lake.” – Matt Stansberry

New illustration for “Fly Fishing in Hell” by Matt Stansberry for Floodplains Magazine. You can read the entire article here.

Floodplains Process

With the recent launch of www.floodplainsmag.com I figured I would share some of the photos I took during the process of creating the illustrations.

Floodplains

I’ll be creating artwork for www.floodplainsmag.com. A blog with great fishing/nature writing by a few anglers in Ohio.

Grand River

Here are a few illustrations I did a while back for a visual essay about fishing on the Grand River in Painesville, Ohio.

Grand River

A few photos from a morning on the Grand River.

Fish Stomping

Headed up North to do some research for a project and some fishing for fun.

Hog Slam 2014

Eight of us headed North to fish on the Grand River for our first Hog Slam weekend looking for Steelhead but happy with anything that would bite. It’s a little early in the year for steelhead fishing so we were all pretty happy when we landed two of them. Total fish count for the weekend: 2 Steelhead, 1 Pike, 3 Bass, 1 carp (giant chub).

Portrait 11 – Out of Oregon

Illustration for an essay entitled “Out of Oregon”.

Curse of Canada

Illustration for an essay about a group of fisherman that go on a yearly fishing trip just to come home to terrible new.

On a illustrating note, I still am not sure about digital color. Guess you got to keep trying.