Thanks!
I started sketching again also (takes much less time than a painting...and much more flexiblity). Actually, I've never stopped sketching. Sometimes, I'll sketch someone on the subway on the way to work...but it's usually on scrap paper and I usually only have 20min on the train so most of them are not complete.
Now I started sketching pictures from newspaper. It gives me a little more time to work on the sketch. Maybe I'll put some of my recent ones up later as well.
I need a new sketch book since I lost my old one after I moved apartments
As for the life list...yes, it is fish only...and all of them have to be fair catches (no snagging) with hook and line only. Doesn't matter if it is handlines, trolled lines or fly lines. But it must be a legitimate bite (so if I ever snagged a paddlefish, it cannot count).
Actually, it is up to 120 now. I reaffirmed a couple of minnow species a few weeks ago. There are some fish species I've caught but they were not put on the list (mainly minnow species and invasive species like the round goby). But if I catch them again and I can take a picture of them, then I'll put them up onto the list.
Just an interesting tidbit. Small fish on my list is a 4" prickly sculpin from British Columbia...and the largest fish on my list is the 120lb ahi from Waianae side. I have actually caught an even smaller fish (2" emerald shiner on a #26 hook and a microscopic piece of worm...we were bait fishing at the time
). But since it was a bait species, I had not count it...and I don't have a picture either (not that every species on my list at the moment has a picture to go with it. At one point, I was debating whether to count only those with a clear picture...but then it would remove some interesting species on my list
)
I recently started counting all species since I counted quite a few reef species from Hawaii...and in your eyes, they are probably trash fish (mamo, kupipi, hinalea, lizardfish...etc). In my eyes, they are one of a kind rare catch. So to be fair to my local fish species, I have to keep to the same standard. Small or big, prized sportfish or bait species...as long as it is a hook and line catch, it will go on the list
