The Electro fish : the Trip :

This fantastic retro fish is one of the most popular designs I have ever shaped. It is ‘the’ super alternative to your other short boards and its increased surface area powers through dead sections on even the smallest waves.

The outline of the ELC utilizes all my classic single fin and twin fin templates from the 70s and 80s.

Ed Sketching a custom fish for a team rider.

The deep fish combined with a slight single to double ‘vee’ concave will have you making sections you never thought possible. Super roundhouse cutbacks and giant floaters are the norm for this incredible design. The ELC can be ridden as a twin keel, 4 finner, thruster or classic twin fin.

You wont look back after riding The Trip .

Jake Spooner on one of Ed Sinnotts Fishes in a ASP heat where he defeated Tom Curren And Rob Machado.

The Inferno fish : double flyer fish :

This board is on the high performance end of the evolution of the fish. Its pulled in nose and double flyers through the tail combine to give this board a definite edge in the high performance range. The flatter entry flows through a single concave that splits into a double barrel tail vee that gives the Infernofish explosive acceleration and planning capacity.

Matt Douglas ripping on his Quad/Fish at Kirra Point.

You can ride these little beauties in big and small waves as they hang in because of the reduced tail area. Just have a look at Matt Douglas in the picture above pulling in at Kirra on his Quad/Fish. Don’t be afraid to order these models with a little extra volume because that gives you a definite edge in your surfing.

Eds Fishes combine his original design knowledge of the 70s with the refinement of modern contours.

The Hipfish : The Vortex :

This model has a pulled in tail via a hip/flyer at the fins which allow you to turn a lot faster than a conventional retro fish. The Hipfish/Vortex also allows you to ride the pocket more and get a lot more vertical than old school style fishes.

Its shallow concave and tail vee give you all the speed and manoeuvrability you will ever need. This model has been proven in all conditions.It can be ridden as a Quad/thruster/twin.

Designer & Photographer Simon Guthrie having fun on a Infernofish at the Pass on a tiny day. Without a Fish, you would consider only a Longboard, or go for a swim.

The Fish Revolution

In the early 1970s the surfboard evolution had progressed to a point where designs became a lot smaller. This was because surfers at the time were experimenting to find just how radical they could be on a wave.

Back in the Days when Surfing was an Underground Alternative.

Fishes and swallows were nothing new either was the use of twin-fins. Bob Simmons' and Tom Blake's two shaping pioneers had tried these in balsa boards many years earlier. Ultra-small twinnies were being surfed in the very early '70s, as well as some other radical designs. It wasn’t until the American shaper Steve Lis combined the swallow tail and the twin-fin that the “fish” emerged.

The Fish was essentially a design of the underground and was never conventional. It was always a part of the “cool soul collective” that shunned contests and the mainstream/it still is.........

Ed remembers going to the Coke Surfabout Contest in Sydney in 1976,

Reno Abellira on one of the revolutionary Fishes

“I remember watching Reno Abellira at the Coke Contest in Sydney in 1976 riding a 5’3’’ x 20’’ small fish style board and tearing up the waves. Everyone else was riding singles and having trouble in smaller waves.

Reno was gliding in multi-directional tangents. Mark Richards was a big guy so I think he took a lot of notice at that contest.. I know Geoff McCoy influenced MR in a big way as well because he was shaping little twinnies as early as 1970.

In fact I think Reno's fishes began the Mark Richards twin-fin era and three world titles. The MR retro twin fin manufactured by Madog is still one of the highest sellers in the modern market place".

The modern fishes we are seeing world wide today are very different to the originals. There are some shapers doing the real retro versions but everyone’s just applying their own individual touch to this wonderful design. My versions are been continually refined so I can come up with the best surfboards possible. I’m using my old templates with new technology and all my experience to get it right.

Go the fish