I go camping in norcal each year with college buddies. A good friend of the group passed away three years ago, so I started making trout out of plywood. I put his initials and year, we hang it in camp and decorate with his picture, beer cans n such (he woulda done the same for us)

, then on a tree to watch over the lake before we leave.
This years, brown trout, these trout are more yellow than other browns I have caught elsewhere. Kinda cartoony looking, but helps us think of him as part of the trip.