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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. — Eric Wallace loves carving fish decoys so much he has decided to put his college education on hold to focus on it. For the foreseeable future, the 22-year-old Maple Grove resident ...

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 ...

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 ...