Each year, while pursuing bass in Central Illinois waters, I find myself tangling with the lake's apex predators – magnificent muskies that demand to be painted in all their fierce glory. The spark for this piece came, ironically, from a modest pound-and-a-half Northern caught on a bitter post-front day – my lone catch but one that offered the perfect reference pose. That small pike's dramatic position inspired dozens of careful studies until I could transform it into a musky, each drawing refining the precise anatomy and positioning until the predator's power emerged true on canvas.

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