#0399 "The Lakers"

A Lake Trout on another slab of black walnut. I like this picture. I carefully gessoed and sealed the area that would be painted after I completed the sketch. This would allow the colours to pop on the grain of the thick slab of wood. Good memories. Apparently some people believe that the Lakers is an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles but I much prefer the fish.

The large black walnut tree was on the front yard of my friend Jack Brydon on Church Street in Schomberg. Jack and I were great friends and did a lot of wood working together. I carved several paddles in his shop while listening to Jack tell stories. Anyway Jack cut the black walnut stem into slabs. We sanded those slabs which I then sealed.

Lake trout inhabit cold, oxygen-rich waters. The lake trout is a slow-growing fish that is also very late to mature. Populations are extremely susceptible to overfishing. Many native lake trout populations have been severely damaged through the combined effects of hatchery stocking and over harvest. Lake trout are the largest of the chars; the record weighed almost 102 pounds (46 kg) (netted) with a length of 50 inches (130 cm), and 15–40-pound (6.8–18.1-kilogram) fish are not uncommon. The average length is 24–36 inches (61–91 centimetres). The largest caught on a rod and reel according to the IGFA was 72 pounds (33 kg), caught in Great Bear Lake in 1995 with a length of 59 inches (150 cm).

Apparently some people believe that the Lakers is an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles but I much prefer the fish.

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