Browse by species
Start with the fish they love. If you know the water they fish, that's often the best clue: a fast river means barbel or chub, and a weedy lake means tench. Carp prints cover mirrors, commons and leathers. Pike prints are for predator anglers, and coarse fish prints take in tench, barbel, perch and the rest. Fly anglers have trout and salmon prints, and shore anglers have sea fishing prints.
Love the bank more than the fish? Try our fishing scenes. They're the safe choice when you're buying for someone and don't know what they fish for.
What makes a good fishing print
An angler looks at the fish before anything else. The fins have to sit in the right places. The scales have to run the right way, and the eye has to be the right colour. A tench has red eyes. A pike's fins sit right back by the tail. Get those wrong and the print looks like a fish nobody's ever caught. Anglers notice.
So every plate here is checked fin by fin, against the species' fin count and scale rows, before it ever goes on sale. Where a fish's pattern varies, like a mirror carp's, the plate shows a believable pattern rather than anyone's known fish.
An old tradition
Fish plates have a long history in Britain. William Houghton's British Fresh-Water Fishes came out in 1879. It carried 41 chromolithographic plates, drawn from nature by A.F. Lydon and engraved by Benjamin Fawcett, according to the PBFA. Our field plate style borrows that look. It's the one to pick if the room already has old maps, books or prints on the walls.
A fishing print of your own catch
The best fishing picture is usually already on someone's phone. Upload a catch photo to print it as it is, or see it in a house style with a free preview first. Not sure? Compare the two routes.
You see what prints first. Our catch photo guide explains which shots print best, and why the original file beats a screenshot every time.
Poster, framed print or canvas
A poster is the cheapest way in, and you can frame it yourself. Framed posters arrive ready to hang. Black or natural wood. Canvas skips the glass altogether, which suits a bright room.
For fine scale detail, a framed poster shows the most, while on a big wall a canvas fills the space without glare from glass. Framed canvas, in black, dark wood or natural wood, gives you both. If you're not sure which to choose, start with a poster, live with it, and frame it later if it earns its place.
Choosing a size
Most fish plates are wide, because a fish is longer than it's tall. Measure twice. Then cut a sheet of paper to the size you're thinking of and tape it up for a day. Our print sizes guide gives every size we sell, from A4 up to 70x100 cm, with what each looks like on a wall.
As a rule of thumb, many people choose art about half to two thirds the width of the furniture below it. Trust your eye over the rule.
Fishing prints as gifts
A fishing print is a gift an angler won't have bought for themselves. No guesswork about tackle. See our fishing gifts for ideas by budget, or Christmas fishing gifts for order-by dates once they're set. For a smaller present, every plate also comes on a mug, and our gift guides for men and dads go further. So does the Christmas page.