So late in May, James, Simon and I hit the road on an awesome winter fishing trip with the aim of making pop-up studios to print all along the way. Well that was my mission, they were just into the fishing! Our first stop was Koensrust Sea Farm just outside Vermaaklikheid, near Puntjie, on the southern cape coast.
Not for the faint-hearted! We stayed right on the ocean and the weather was pretty hectic, luckily we could make a fire every night and I caught my first "'Dassie" Blacktail. (Diplodus sargus) The fish with the blue eye is locally called a "Jan Bruin" (Gymnocrotaphus curvidens) I was thinking of using a bit of colour in the eye of the print of this one.
Then we travelled up the coast past Cintza towards the wild coast and the old Transkei.By now the water is a lot warmer, no longer the cold Benguela influence but the warm Mozambique current with a whole lot of new species for printing. We headed past Port St. John's to Msikaba and a friends house with crazy sculptures in the garden.
The bronze bream (Pachymetopon grande),was the first specie of the day and after that the guys caught Kob (Argyrosomus hololepidotus), Queenfish (Scomberoides commersonianus), Yellow-belly rock-cod (Epinephelus guaza), River snapper (Lutjanus argentimaculatus). There were some that were also released such as Stone bream (Neoscorpis lithophilus) and a Cave Bass (Dinoperca petersi). An awesome 4 days of wild coast fishing!
THE PRINTS
