Brown Trout
Ellen McCaleb
Barrington, NH c. 2000
plaque is 37 1/2 in. long

McCaleb grew up fishing in Craddock Creek, Virginia, and her early carving and painting instruction was by decoy carver Mark McNair, from Craddockville, Virginia. She is one of the top fish carvers today.

This brown trout was carved in the tradition of historical English trophy fish carvers. The twenty-six-inch-long carved trout shows exacting attention to detail, especially the intricately carved wooden plaque that the fish is mounted on. The thirty-seven-and-one-half-inch plaque is signed on the back.

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