FISH PAINTING

LIKE ALL FISH, striped bass have different color variations. The "original" stripers are saltwater fish and normally are more silvery in color than freshwater or landlocked stripers, often called rockfish. Freshwater stripers will exhibit a greenish tint and slightly less grey or silvery colorations. Male stripers have straight rows of spots, or "lines," that run the length of the body. Females also have lines, but these lines will often be broken and not run straight.

Another fish you can use this schedule for are freshwater hybrid stripers. Hybrids are a cross between saltwater stripers and freshwater white bass, and are also called "wiper bass." Hybrids exhibit a slightly greenish tone at times and always have broken lines instead of the straight rows of spots. Physically, their tail fins are deeply forked and their mouths are smaller than those of freshwater stripers. Their bodies are deeper from back to belly and are not as long.

This schedule is formulated for using Polytranspar Paints. When painting fish I normally try to find a "happy medium" instead of varying colors on each individual fish. This is an important factor for...

...Continued in the Spring 2003 Issue of Breakthrough.

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