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, ...

(frogs chirp) Welcome to Michigan Out of Doors. We have an exciting show in store for you this week. We'll introduce you to a father and son team who is really into waterfall decoy carving. You will ...

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 ...

LIDGERWOOD, N.D. -- A North Dakota couple is frantically trying to fill the Christmas orders from hundreds who are dreaming of fish. A few years ago, the two left careers in law enforcement, picked up ...

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 ...

It’s never too late to start a new hobby. In Brian Shallbetter’s case, he started two around the age of 50. In 2008, he brought a flat, inexpensive spear out to Pelican Lake by Monticello, dropped ...

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 ...

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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 ...