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......
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 LogJanuary 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
