In the past thirty years, Kotts has fished from Seattle to Nome, AK and back numerous times, stopping in virtually every bay and backwater along the way. Always observing and photographing the boats that he saw, to be painted later, he developed a large following among the fishermen. A successful business followed, as they were always anxious to have portraits of their boats painted and they appreciated Kotts’ firsthand knowledge of their boats, their rigging and the conditions in which they worked.
