Start to my New England Surfcasting Fishing sleeve.
 

This is the start to my fishing sleeve. They will be more pictures to follow as more work gets done. Hope you guys like as much as I do.

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Looks good so far man.

who is doing the work?

is the rest planned out already or designing and adding as you go?

Ive wanted to do a ocean/fishing theme for a while but only my back is still open and my right rib cage, maybe down the road.

Neil England, Empire Tattoo, Most of the work is planned out, It will all be realism. I will keep you posted as it progresses.

Really nice work
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sick ink

To each, His own.

Looks like a great start. I'm a bit jealous honestly as my wife is strongly against me getting a sleeve even though I already have some ink. Looking forward to seeing your progress!
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Looks good man I work in the tattoo industry and I have to say it looks like solid work.,going to be interesting to see what else he plans on doing to bring the rest of it together, I have a surfcasting leg sleeve that was not planed out but it came out awesome as a collage.
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Awesome
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Very very nice... very tastefully done... keep us posted!

Looks great!

I've been wanting this down for a few years, I have many tattoos which all have meaning behind them. I can express my life threw art on my body. One thing is new England fishing it's in my blood. This being a few years in the works. My wife's just upset because I have so much on me from relatives who passed away, to my children and more.....but not her name....but that's another story. All my tattoos are easily covered my a button up shirt. I own a small coney island restaurant and deal with people on a day to day basis. But I wouldn't get anything visible ,hands,neck,face,head etc. I will keep you all posted more pictures to come dec. 19th. To follow will be a siloette surf caster with rod in hand line and hook connected to the eel standing on real rocks that I fish in little Compton with the moon and clouds behind while the surf is crashing. Underwater will be reefs with a tog tucked in, a blue fish chasing a school of bait, maybe a lobstah and a maybe few crustations. Well see where this brings us. Most photos and ideas came from mike laptews work. Which I chatted on Facebook with on multiple occasions.. And thanked him for his incredible work.
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Sorry about the #^&#^&#^&#^&ty cellphone pictures too....lol
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Very cool! I have several surfcasting-related tats in my mind that I just need to get around to having done.

I would probably get that thing reworked a little bit, the problem is the fish is attacking from the back and we all know that stripers attack the head, should be an easy fix. :rotf2:

Just messin' with you, looks cool man!!

explain the sand paper marks that drag down the back of the eel when you set the hook to early.....:fishin: lol
But we all know strippers take it head first... I mean stripers:rotf2:

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Very Very NICE!!

I just got a new one to honor my mom who died in March

Here are a few more to date pictures, The pictures might not look so clear seeing how I had it done less then 24 hours ago(shine redness and puffiness)

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Looking good! Nice detail!

Surf fishing under the full moon with a slight over cast, with a surf crashing.. The rest will be all under water with bait fish, bluefish, New england style reef.

Nice work!

That's sick chad.

The fisherman using conv gear?
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Spinning

ChefChris wasn't sure because he fishes his convech on the bottom of the rod.:rotf2:

lol..and the spinning on the top,,,:rotf2:

Looks really good, going to be interesting to see how he's going to bring the underwater / land prospective together. Most guys that work on sleeves will outline everything and lay it all out first bf going at it. Looks sick thou good work!
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And backwards reeling
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Looks good chad
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Very cool