Wooden fish spearing decoys hand carved by Kimmel www.wooden-fish.com

At first glance this 7.5 inch white sucker by Craig Kimmel looks rather comical.  I got the idea to carve this decoy, with feeding mouth, from antique sucker decoys that I see with the mouth somewhat extended.  The decoy is carved from tupelo gum and has copper fins.  We had a sucker this size in one of our  reference aquariums, which I caught in the White River.  Though it looks odd, this is actually how these interesting fish appear when they feed.

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