Fish in the boat cake

Apparently a fish (claimed to be IDed as a shad) jumped into Tom's single one day while he was out on the water.  After providing evidence of a fish smudge and scale on the deck of the shell, I made a cake to commemorate the event.

The boat was made of chocolate melted onto parchment paper and shaped to resemble a shell.  The oars were pretzel rods with white chocolate melted to make the blades (blue food coloring was added to the lower half of the blade before piping it onto parchment paper).  The fish were Sweedish fish and the bow-ball was a white pearl candy.