Main photo: The fly line silhouette and coral rocks adds to the texture. Completed with a Lamson Speedster and #10 Ross Flystik.
Ever since the first time I laid eyes on the Orvis stripping basket, I have felt they looked terribly boring. Unsightly even.
Before I took up fly fishing, a basket belongs either in front of a shopping cart or a bicycle. Yes, they look silly hanging from a person’s hip. But they serve a function and in some conditions, they are a necessity. So we learn to live with the embarrassment!
So finally before the upcoming flats fishing trip to the Maldives, I decided to do some pimping on my stripping basket. Something which I have wanted to do for some time.
I toyed with different ideas but eventually decided to re-draw the image of a bonefish on it as what I had recently sketched for a t-shirt design for Nick’s shop, Tacklebox Adventures.
Turned out pretty well. The sharpie marker pretty much stayed-on after one whole week of trashing. I have received requests to do drawings on other stripping baskets from friends and so on.
It is not finished yet as I plan to add more drawings on it. Though I have not really decided what is to be added. More underwater environment? Other fish species? Permit, Tarpon, Trevally? Any suggestions?
The initial drawing.
Completed the bonefish drawing.
very nice, any chance can get a copy of this fish you have drawn?.