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.
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.
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.
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