Permit Fish And Fishing Fly
by Don Balke
Title
Permit Fish And Fishing Fly
Artist
Don Balke
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Cold Press Illustration Board
Description
Although artificial flies for fishing have been with us since about 200 A.D., they were used until relatively recently for food gathering only. But in the last half of the 19th Century, knickered, top-hatted gentlemen and their gillies raised the craft of fly tying to an art form, making it "respectable" to catch fish merely for sport or leisure. Since then, artificial flies have seen tremendous evolution in popularity, resulting in literally tens of thousands of designs. Once used almost exclusively for Trout and Atlantic Salmon, flies have now been tied and used successfully for almost all sporting species. The painting depicts a fishing "fly" which is actually meant to look like a small fish being used to lure the most elusive of saltwater quarries -- the Permit.
Permit (Family Carangidae) are gray in color with dark or iridescent blue above and have shading to silvery sides. In dark waters they show golden tints around the breast. Small permit have teeth on their tongue (none on pompano) but no scutes. Their dorsal fin is inserted directly above that of the anal fin. A similar fish is the pompano, T. carolinus. The permit is deeper bodied, its dorsal body profile forms an angle at the insertion of second dorsal fin and the pompano rarely grow larger than 6 pounds, whereas the permit commonly grows to 40 pounds. The permit fish is typically found offshore on wrecks and debris or inshore on grass flats, sand flats, and in channels.
Please note the "Fine Art America" watermark will not appear on the painting or any print reproduction.
Artwork Copyright © 1991 Wind River Studios Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved under United States and international copyright laws. You may not reproduce, distribute, transmit, or otherwise exploit the Artwork in any way. Any sale of the physical original does not include or convey the Copyright or any right comprised in the Copyright. WRSH Stock Number XB13040
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July 19th, 2022
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