PARK RAPIDS, Minn. – As they sit side by side at their dining room table, whittling pieces of wood into fish, Mark and Cole Bethel are carrying on a family tradition and engaging in some ...

For the first time ever, the Great Lakes Fish Decoy Collecting and Carving Association brings the Fish Decoy Carving World Championship to Cadillac. Starting Friday, at the Lake Cadillac Resort, ...

They look real, but they are carved and painted wood. It’s the work of a very well known artist. got his start as a young farm boy sharing the hobby of his grand father. He loves to fish and he loves ...

Don't be misled by the modest moniker. Curt Soine, this year's featured artist for the Meander, creates works of art and sells them under the brand Curt's Decoys. Many also happen to be ...

Brainerd High School students completed a near sweep of junior division awards at the 2017 World's Largest Fish Decoy Show held April 22-23 in Perham. Ribbons and certificates were awarded to the Top ...

When most people think of decoys, their minds typically drift to fields and sloughs packed with lifelike replicas of mallards or Canada geese. For one entrepreneurial couple, decoys take on a much ...

Eric Wallace, 22, of Maple Grove loves making decoys so much he's put a pause on his college education to see if he can make a living doing it. These decoys are used in "darkhouse angling" to attract ...

Adviser nomination: “Elliott Nordin has proven to be an outstanding decoy design artist. His level of detail and quality surpasses even those that have been carving for years. This past weekend ...

Duane Steinkopf's motivation for carving his own spearing decoys was hardly storybook stuff, far less romantic than good old-fashioned German frugality would allow. "I started because I wasn't going ...

MIDDLE RIVER, Minn.-Joel Huener says he's always been "kind of a rabid do-it-yourselfer," a trait that also rubbed off on his hunting and fishing. "I tie flies, I make rods and I load my own ammo," ...

When most people see a cedar fence post or an old, broken cedar limb on the ground, Dave Kober sees a trout; or a perch; or maybe, a bluegill. Kober carves fish decoys. Decoys have long been used by ...