Butchering a Halibut
950 Edition 8 1/8 x 10

I had just finished a painting and wondered what next, when my son called on his cellular phone: "They're unloading halibut on the dock, and a whopper of 200 pounds or more has just come up out of the hold!" I drove right over and got lots of good sketches of the goings-on. Later, I went over to the cold storage for more sketching and saw an enormous one being cleaned.

Normally fish are cleaned on metal tables, but when it comes to an unwieldly giant like the one in the print, a frustrum shaped contraption topped by a pulley system takes over.