And the winner of our “Paint Matt’s Adventure Van” contest is Laurel G.!

Laurel’s design captured the raw emotion of catching a huge Driftless trout with a tenkara rod. It’s a perfect recreation of this EPIC battle!

With superior marker skills like that, it’s easy to see why she was the winner. Laurel has won a tenkara rod of her choice (from our stash of demo tenkara rods), a copy of the very soon to be released Tenkara Angler 2025 print magazine, and a piece of Tenkara Angler swag of her choice from our Spreadshirt shop. Congrats to Laurel!
Also, since Laurel was clearly a ringer, we’re going to toss our runner up Paul B. a little swag pack as well!

Laurel & Paul, we’ll be in touch with you shortly via email to arrange selection & delivery of the prizes. Thanks to everyone who participated in, or voted on our most recent art contest. Maybe we’ll do another one in the future, who knows…
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Sweet! Laurel is stoked!
We need a Go Fund Me to have that winner wrapped on Matt’s van.