With no offense to the practitioners of the culinary arts, you just can’t beat the taste of a freshly caught trout, skillet fried on an open fire a hundred miles from the nearest gas-range stove. Need we mention the view? It was designed and built by Mother Nature herself. As for Beaver Camp, well, you can find it anywhere you can land a de Havilland (DHC-2) Beaver, the work-horse float plane of the North Country. As for the fish tales themselves, a great deal of that depends of the company and the day. But as a rule of thumb, consider this: the wider the arms are spread, the greater the tale. – WP

Fish Tales at Beaver Camp and Bill Phillips were featured in the August 2009 issue of Western Art Collector. As they say in the story, “Bill produces a sensitive and wonderfully composed landscape, and the depth and perspective of these paintings are outstanding.”