Remember The Catch
Preserve your most memorable catches with the Fishin' Prints DIY Gyotaku Fish Printing Kit. This unique kit allows you to create detailed, wall-worthy prints directly from your fish, providing a lasting keepsake of your fishing adventures.
What is Gyotaku Fish Printing?
Gyotaku is a traditional Japanese art form originating in the mid-19th century, used by fishermen to record their catches with stunning detail. This unique method involves applying ink to a real fish and pressing it onto rice paper or cloth, to create a precise, lifelike impression of the fish’s form, scales, and fins.
Anyone can do it with our kits!
After over two years and extensive prototyping, Fishin' Prints has developed the best and most user friendly process. With straightforward instructions and high-quality materials, our DIY kit streamlines the Gyotaku method, requiring no artistic background. Just clean and dry your fish, apply the provided food-safe ink, press it onto the fabric sheet, and lift to reveal a detailed print. This kit allows you to preserve your fishing accomplishments as distinctive, frameable artwork, combining tradition with modern ease.
The Finished Product
Everything You Need for Two Printing Sessions
Elevate your fishing experience with our premium Fish Print Kit, designed to capture the beauty of your catch with exceptional detail. This kit includes two 36x18-inch high-quality cloth sheets, capable of producing up to four 18-inch half-size prints, ideal for smaller freshwater or saltwater species such as bass, trout, bluegill, mangrove snapper, sea trout, and more. Alternatively, create two stunning 36-inch full-size prints, perfect for larger species like pike, walleye, redfish, red snapper, grouper, mahi, or snook. For added convenience, the kit includes two cuttlefish ink packets, allowing you to create one print now and save the second for later. Crafted for anglers who value quality and versatility, this kit ensures your memorable catches are preserved with professional-grade results.
Why Our Process is Better
Our process differs from Traditional Gyotaku in two ways:
- 1 We use high quality cloth while traditional Gyotaku uses rice paper.
- 2 We use Food-Grade Cuttlefish Ink (an ingredient often used in pasta) instead of Sumi ink.
Here is why it's better:
Rice paper is really hard to work with as it creases easily and has a tendency to rip when printing your amazing catches.
Our cloth canvases also create a more versatile print that can be displayed in many ways such as frames, stretching and stapling on a backing, a table runner in your home or on your boat, fold it up and put it in a scrap book for later, or just simply pinning it up on the wall. Our cloth gives you many more display options than paper.
Traditional Gyotaku uses Sumi ink which is made from burning oil and taking the ash created from the burn and mixing it with water. I'm not sure about y'all, but that'snot something I want to be spreading all over my dinner!
Meet the Proud Owner of Fishin' Prints!
Zach Coldsnow Is the owner behind Fishin' Prints which was founded in 2024 after 3 years of prototyping and playing ariound with the process. He is a lifelong angler and has had the opportunity to fish waters all over the world. From the Bahamas to the Kenai River up in Alaska, growing in a military family and moving all over has allowed him to experience waters all over the world.
His unique product takes the traditional art of gyotaku, which is difficult in nature due to the materials used in the process, and turns it into a printing press for the average person to be able to print the fish they catch. Using cloth specifically sourced for the process and food grade cuttlefish ink which is actually an ingredient in squid ink pasta (it is meant to be consumed!) so you are able to fillet and eat your fish after. By creating this unique ready-to-print kit accessible to all, Zach encourages conservation, creativity, and a deeper appreciation for fisheries around the world! #RememberTheCatch
