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Winning Trout Stamp Contest Entries



The winning entries for the 2025 edition of the Delaware Trout Stamp Contest were chosen by a panel of five judges who evaluated and scored the contest entries in person.

The 2025 Delaware Trout Stamp will feature a painting of a brook trout by Dennis Arp of Edison, Nebraska. Mr. Arp received $250 for Best in Show and retains artist’s rights for reproduction and sales of prints of the stamp.

Best in Show

A painting of a brook trout, a brown fish with yellow speckles, rising out of the water to bike a fly.
Dennis Arp (Brook Trout)

Second place went to Eric Jablonowski of Suwanee, Georgia with a brown trout. Third place was George Bradford of Georgetown, Delaware, with a rainbow trout.

Second Place

Painting of a brown trout swimming along the stony bottom of a creek.
Eric Jablonski (Brown Trout)

Third Place

Painting of a rainbow trout about to bite a lure disguised as a fly.
George Bradford (Rainbow Trout)

Honorable mentions went (left to right) to Tory Farris of Foxcroft, Maine, for a brook trout; Charles Wurst, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a brook trout; and (a second honorable mention) to Tory Farris for a brown trout.

Honorable Mentions




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