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Widely recognized as the world’s finest freshwater fish and wildlife artist, Al Agnew has created artwork of popular freshwater game fish and North American wildlife. Now that artwork is available on a variety of apparel items including T-shirts, Sweatshirts/Fleecewear,Technical Fishing Shirts, Hats, Jackets, Towels, Belts and more.

Agnew was raised in the rural Ozarks of southern Missouri where, from an early age, his father and grandfather took him fishing every weekend — unless they went hunting. By the time he was nine, Al was riding his bike a mile to the river to catch smallmouth bass, and was floating the river in a small johnboat by the time he was 14. He hunted the woods and, while in high school, won local bass tournaments and purchased his first canoe and bass boat. Not surprising, art was Al’s other love, and his skill was such that he even sold some paintings before he enrolled at Southeast Missouri State University. There, he chose to work toward a teaching degree, with a major in art, and after graduating, taught art at a small school in southern Missouri, all the while painting in his spare time. Having sold a few pieces and then winning the first conservation stamp contest he’d entered (the Missouri trout stamp), Al made the decision in 1983, with encouragement from his wife, to pursue his passion for painting wildlife on a full-time basis. He immediately began selling paintings and has never looked back.

An avid angler who has fished in 30 states, Canada and Africa, Al Agnew has landed almost 80 species of North American fish on hook and line, as well as five African species. He has flyfished much of the West for trout and steelhead, and nearly a dozen rivers in Alaska for salmon. Though he’s caught trophy bass in Texas and Florida, and landed big muskie, pike, and walleye in Minnesota and Ontario, his first love is smallmouth bass fishing. Al is well-known as an expert on river smallmouth, and his river fishing tactics and adventures have been featured in national outdoor magazines. He is a popular speaker at fishing seminars throughout the Midwest, and is an acknowledged master of stream fishing from a canoe.

Al is also an avid bowhunter who has sought elk in Idaho, mule deer in Colorado, and caribou in Alaska, besides the whitetails and wild turkeys in his native Ozarks. He also enjoys shotgunning for cottontails, quail, and doves. He grew up squirrel hunting with a .22 rifle, and still prides himself on his expertise in rifle shooting with open sights.

Al Agnew’s artwork is also in much demand among conservation organizations, where it has helped in raising millions of dollars to benefit wildlife through organizations such as Ducks Unlimited, the National Wild Turkey Federation, the Black Bass Foundation, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the Wolf Recovery Project, and on an international level, the Cullman and Hurt Community Wildlife Project in Africa’s Tanzania. Al is also active in working with national, state and local fisheries and conservation organizations supporting bass, trout and river protection.