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About
Trip Hunter spent the first ten years after college designing and building custom furniture for clients in the tri-state area. His first company, Hamilton Woodcrafts, specialized in the creation of custom dining room tables, coffee tables and mantles. Shortly after founding Hamilton Woodcrafts, Trip started Minor Miracles, which built a line of heirloom quality children's furniture designed to grow with your children and your children's children.
Realizing the role that marketing would play in his companies' success,
Trip began a career at New York based Renegade, a marketing agency that
specializes in both online and offline programs for a broad range of
clients. While Trip has spent the last ten years developing new clients and programs for Renegade, his
passion for woodworking and all things fish remains key to his generally rosy outlook on things. When not in his shop,
Trip can either be found spending time with his
wife Julie, daughter Lilah and son Miles, or stalking fish with a fly rod in his
hands. If he is not doing either of those things, he might be under the hood of his 1946 Chevy 1/2 ton pickup wondering what wire to pull on next.
Trip began fly fishing around the age of 8, and over the years has fished some of the most spectacular fresh and saltwater locations in the world. While he has lost more fish than he has caught, those fish that stand out he has caught over and over again in his one-track mind. The 50 pound king salmon on the Yakima River in Alaska, the 12.8 pound bonefish on a flat in South Andros, the 38 inch striper caught from his kayak off the shores of Long Island Sound, the land locked tarpon on Little Cayman Island, or the 17 inch brown trout caught right in his back yard while he was cooking pork chops for dinner. Trip's love for fish has manifested itself in the tin fish mobiles you see on these pages that he makes for equally passionate fisherman around the world.
Trip began fly fishing around the age of 8, and over the years has fished some of the most spectacular fresh and saltwater locations in the world. While he has lost more fish than he has caught, those fish that stand out he has caught over and over again in his one-track mind. The 50 pound king salmon on the Yakima River in Alaska, the 12.8 pound bonefish on a flat in South Andros, the 38 inch striper caught from his kayak off the shores of Long Island Sound, the land locked tarpon on Little Cayman Island, or the 17 inch brown trout caught right in his back yard while he was cooking pork chops for dinner. Trip's love for fish has manifested itself in the tin fish mobiles you see on these pages that he makes for equally passionate fisherman around the world.
Trout House
Trout House is a real place, otherwise known as Trip's home, and is located
on the Silvermine River in Connecticut. Every year Trip and his wife have a party for
the neighborhood and create a fun kid's game. Last year's theme was a fishing game. Trip cut sixty
trout out of stamped ceiling tin, hand painted them, attached them to bobbers, and threw them in the river.
When the kids arrived, they were given a bamboo fishing rod with which to catch three fish. Each fish was worth a certain number of points, and the child with the most points won a prize. While the kids got to keep the fish they caught as a gift, it turns out the parents wanted the fish too! A few weeks later, the calls started coming in from people asking if I could make them fish mobiles as gifts for their kids. And that is how Trout House, the business, not the home, got its start. So if you are looking for a fun and different kind of gift for the fisherman in your family, take a look at Trout House Mobiles. Give Trip a call and he'll make exactly what you want. Tight lines!
Check out my blog at www.triphunter.tumblr.com Trout House. All Things Fish.
