Expect The Unexpected

Fly fishing has an incredible way of completely smashing all your expectations.

SBS: The Mighty Ugandan

One of the patterns, since nicknamed ” The Mighty Ugandan” stood out in particular for a number of reasons

Grunter Premonition

Grunter are like people with rhetorical habits

A Growing Addiction

Fast forward to 2016; almost four years after leaving I bump into Daniel. Daniel had just returned from a day’s fishing and I was too curious about what he had caught to not grab his gunwale and start a conversation.

Meet the Tuscan bunny's nasty african cousin

A brief history of the Gas Hed Mullet

Grunter Gyotaku

Posted on November 11, 2013by Peter Coetzee

Complete!

The art of fish rubbing, and smelly fingers.

Gyotakyu Prep — The hard part. Gills out, paper towel up every orifice, dry, spray with isopropyl alcohol, dry again, repeat until no slime.

Gyotaku Prep — Block placement for pinning fins

Gyotaku Prep — Inking up. I find a sponge works better than a brush.

My four favourites

Still contemplating whether or not to do spots at this stage

Complete!

Props to Ray Montoya for the tips! I actually preferred the quality of the other final one, but this one was truer to the actual fish so I decided to go with it instead.

One thought on “Grunter Gyotaku”

fdavis says:
I want one 🙂
November 11, 2013 at 8:08 am
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