Gone Fishing Beach Painting 16x20 Canvas Commissions: Custom Original Painting Order Accepted BUY : Visit Original Paintings Shop BUY : Canvas, Wood and Metal Prints, Pillows, Totes and More! This painting is based on childhood memories of fishing on a pier in the Gulf of Mexico on Padre Island, Texas. My mother and I loved to go fishing on this pier at Andie Bowie Park which is no longer there. I caught lots of whiting, croakers, sheepshead and a prized flounder or two. A dreaded catching catfish because I was afraid of getting stuck with their fin so my Mom would take those off the hook for me. We could even drive under the pier and that was considered a prime location to set up for the day. You can not drive down to the beach in this area now. That driving access has been closed and a park and picnic area put up. From the time I was about four years old I played with sand buckets by the pier and when fishing on the pier as soon as I co