This carving was inspired by a nice 18.5" brown trout that I caught on a dry fly on the Green River in Utah. Cindy and the kids and I were on a family camping trip over at Flaming Gorge, and stopped at the first access downstream from the dam. The fish came on a #16 elk hair caddis.

This fish is carved from basswood, and some of the fins are inserted. All of the scale detail is burned in, and painting was done in acrylics. The base is a piece of walnut, and the rocks are carved from basswood. The driftwood is modified from a piece of driftwood found downstream from the dam in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.