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About the Artist

So I'm at work on a Saturday in December 2002, waiting to do my part of a system upgrade, when I type 'Fish Print' into Google.  I was looking to buy fish art for my office.  I ran across a web site for Gyotaku and take an immediate interest in the subject.  I spend the next few months researching everything I can about gyotaku, practicing in my mind how I'm going to make my own fish prints.  I even bought a few through the internet.

It finally gets warm enough the following March to catch a few bluegill in a local pond.  Armed with red acrylic paint, news print and my then 8 year old daughter as my assistant, we make some prints which look like fish shaped blobs of ink.  Not discouraged, I practice and practice until I feel comfortable enough to use rice paper, rather than news print and block printing ink, rather than acrylic paint.

Fast forward several month to the point where I liked them enough to start framing them and hanging them in my office.  Friends of my wife ask if they can buy some as gifts for their husbands and I think hmm......

The following fall, I signed up for my first art show.  Since then, I've joined the Nature Printing Society http://www.natureprintingsociety.info/ , the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen http://www.pennsylvaniacrafts.com/ and the Greater Norristown Art League http://www.gnal.org/. 

In February of 2008, I became a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen.  Juried status in the PGC is an honor awarded to work deemed to show excellence in craftmanship, resolved design and unique voice or style.  I am honored to be a juried member.

All of my art work is hanging up in my office between shows.  The only prints that I mat and/or frame are one's that I'd keep as my own if I never sold another.  Since I catch the fish (or in some cases, was with a friend who caught a fish), I have a connection to each print.  I do most of my fishing in Montgomery County, Chester County and Berks County PA.

I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed making them.

Michael Reimer

Fishing Album
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2008 Fishing Log
January 3 - Schuylkill River - nothing
January 5 - Pickering Creek, 1 Brown Trout, 1 Rainbow Trout
January 6 - Valley Creek, 3 Brown Trout
January 11 - Valley Creek, 15+ Brown Trout, 1 sucker
February 3 - Valley Creek, 3 Brown Trout
February 19 - Valley Creek, 5 Brown Trout
February 22 - Tarkill Creek, 3 native Brook Trout
February 23 - Ice Fishing on Peck's Pond, nothing
February 23 - Tarkill Creek, 3 native Brook Trout
April 4 - French Creek, 4 Brown Trout, 3 Rainbow Trout
April 12 - Unnamed pond, Chester County, 8 Bluegill, 2 Largemouth Bass
April 13 - Hay Creek, 8 Brown Trout
April 18 - Perkiomen Creek - nothing
April 18 - Local pond - 5 bluegill, 2 largemouth
April 23 - Delaware River - 6 Striped Bass, 6 Channel Catfish, 2 White Perch
May 2 - Tulpehocken Creek - 2 rainbow trout, 1 brown trout

2007 Fishing Log
January 6 - Tulpehocken Creek, 1 Brown Trout
January 21 - Valley Creek, 8 Brown Trout
February 17 - Hay Creek, nothing
February 23 - Tarkill Creek, 2 native Brook Trout
February 24 - Ice Fishing on Peck's Pond, nothing
March 31 - Schuylkill River below Fairmount Dam - fished for shad, caught nothing
March 31 - French Creek, 1 Brown Trout, 2 Rainbow Trout
April 3 - Local Pond, 6 Bluegill
April 29 - Pickering Creek, Brook Trout
May 4 - Clark Creek, 6+ Brown Trout, 20+ Brook Trout
May 7 - Delaware River, 5 American Shad
May 23 - Delaware River, 2 Rainbow Trout, 1 Walleye
May 24 - Delaware River, 1 Rainbow Trout
May 24 - Starrucca Creek, 6 Brook Trout
May 24 - Lackawanna River, 10 Rainbow Trout, 2 Brook Trout
May 25 - ? Creek, 2 Rainbow Trout
May 25 - Harvey's Creek, 2 Brown Trout, Numerous Rainbow Trout and Brook Trout
May 26 - Nescopeck Creek, 1 Brown Trout, 12+ Brook Trout
May 28 - Manatawny Creek, 1 Brown Trout, 1 Rainbow Trout, 3 Rock Bass, 2 Smallmouth Bass
June 6 - Creek, 6 Rainbow Trout, 1 Tiger Trout, 7 Rock Bass, 1 Sunfish
June 22 - Pickering Creek, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, 3 Bluegill
July 1 - Mingo Creek, 15 or so Rock Bass, Bluegill, Pumpkinseed Sunfish and Red Breasted Sunfish
July 20 - Marsh Creek Lake, 1 Largemouth Bass, numerous Black Crappie and Bluegil
August 10 - Pickering Creek - 1 Smallmouth Bass, 2 Red Breasted Sunfish
August 10 - Perkiomen Creek - Numerous Smallmouth Bass, Rock Bass, Sunfish
August 11 - Perkiomen Creek - Numerous Smallmouth Bass, Sunfish
August 12 - Perkiomen Creek - Numerous Smallmouth Bass
August 16 - Perkiomen Creek - 8 Smallmouth Bass
August 23 - Tulpehocken Creek - 4 Smallmouth Bass, 4 Rainbow Trout, 1 Brown Trout, 1 Rock Bass
August 31 - Perkiomen Creek - 1 Smallmouth Bass
September 1 - Greenlane Reservior - Numerous Bluegill, Sunfish and Largemouth Bass
September 1 - Perkiomen Creek - 1 Smallmouth Bass
September 3 - Tulpehocken Creek - 5 Smallmouth Bass, 5 Rainbow Trout, 1 Brown Trout, numerous Rock Bass and Sunfish
September 7 - Perkiomen Creek - 3 Smallmouth Bass
November 7 - Schuylkill River - 2 Smallmouth Bass
November 11 - Schuylkill River - 1 Smallmouth Bass
November 15 - Marsh Creek - Yellow Perch
November 25 - Manatawny Creek, 10 Brown Trout
December 2 - Blue Marsh spillway - nothing
December 7 - Schuylkill River - nothing
December 9 - Schuylkill Rilver - nothing
December 20, 27, 28 - Schuylkill River - nothing
December 29 - Valley Creek - 20+ brown trout