A great fish is more than something you bring home. It is a memory, a place, a season, and usually a story that gets told more than once.

 

Hanes creates custom copper sculptures that capture those fish in remarkable detail, from familiar freshwater species to offshore game fish. Each piece is made by hand and built to reflect the fish, and the experience, that made it worth remembering.

Bluewater Copper Works can create a sculpture from a photograph of your catch or work from the species and details you provide. Typically a piece can be made to the actual size of the fish or scaled to suit the space where it will be displayed.

 

Whether it's a personal catch, a favorite species, or a fish that has special meaning to your family, the finished sculpture is made specifically for you.  Don’t see your species here? Ask Hanes. There’s a good chance he’s made it.

These are pieces meant to stay with you long after the fishing trip is over. Hanes works the copper by hand to get the shape, proportions, markings and nuances of species correct. In Hanes' words, "Each piece comes alive in my mind as it is slowly born in my hands."

 

The result is a permanent reminder of something that would otherwise exist only in photographs and memories.