Selling Fish

A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach (1885) by the Irish painter Stanhope Alexander Forbes.

Nostalgic Fishing

An illustration by Frank Earle Schoonover done for Days Off by Henry Van Dyke first published in 1907

Net Fishing

Fishing with Nets. Cover Illustration from May 1949 by the American artist Mead Schaeffer.

Maybee a Fishing Goddess

Raquel Welch posing with fishing nets. Wet fishermen dreams.

Hooked

A pin up hooked herself while fly fishing. 1950s illustration by Peter Driben.

Cleaning Fish

Men cleaning fish. Painting by the American artist Howard Logan Hildebrandt.

Devon Aoki goes fishing

The American model and actress Devon Aoki posing with a fish by David LaChapelle.

True Action

True action with fly fishing. Cover illustration of Cavalier in march 1959.

Ava Gardner

Ava Gardner posing with fishing rod in the 1940s.

Tiny Catch

A real tiny catch by the pin up painter Bill Layne.

Tricky Ice Fishing

Even Donald Duck has his problems with ice fishing.

Art Deco Fishing

Sassy Art-Deco-Cover from the not so golden Thierties.

Treacherous Mermaids

The Mermaid Rock (1894), romantic painting by the English artist Edward Matthew Hale.

Lucky Fishing

Lucky fishing by smoking. Ad combining fly fishing with cigarettes, good old times.

Valencian Fisherman

Valencian Fishermen (1895) by the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla.

Golden Days

Taking a nap while fishing. Golden Days by Norman Rockwell 1930.

Hooked Pin Up

A pin up on the hook, illustration by Edward Runci.

Dramatic Big Game

Dramatic big game fishing on a magazine cover from 1935.

Cleaning the Catch

Fishermen are cleaning their catch. Painting by John George Brown (1887).

I think it's probably codfish.

Barracuda Fishing

Big action while fishing for barracuda. Fishing magazine cover from 1913.