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  • The Drake

    Ellen McCaleb’s Journey

    Jun 16, 2022 3 minutes
    BY BEN CARMICHAEL

    WHAT IS A “TROPHY-FISH CARVING” and how are they made? For Ellen McCaleb, widely considered one of best trophy-fish carvers of the past fifty years, her craft began with an unlikely source: two-by-fours—notoriously crooked and knotty—from Home Depot.

    Over Zoom, with the waters of Chesapeake Bay outside her window, McCaleb holds up her first-ever carving: a small brook trout, mounted on a little round stone that looks, in her words, like a three-dimensional James Prosek painting. Her favorite

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