Gary Lipham has carved just enough wooden duck decoys to understand how much skill and creativity the craft demands. “I wanted to have an appreciation for carving, so I carved a little bit,” said ...

NEOSHO, Wisconsin (WTMJ) -- On a quiet lake in rural Wisconsin, a duck sits serenely on the water. Just living a duck's best life. Except there is one problem. It's not actually a duck. I was fooled. ...

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," ...

EDINA, Minn. -- Doug Lodermeier was bursting with stories about Minnesota duck-decoy carvers. We were in Lodermeier's basement office in early December, thumbing through a computer copy of his new ...

George Kahl comes from a long line of duck decoy carvers. He always knew his uncles from New York were waterfowl hunters and carvers in the 1940s, but he didn’t know the true nature of their talents ...

Once seen as mere hunting tools, duck decoys have waddled their way into the world of collecting hobbies. It’s easy to see why: These handcrafted works of art are painted with intricate details and ...

ERIE — Frank Buchner made a living working on ships that traveled throughout the Great Lakes in the first half of the last century. He was a captain and engineer on what were then known as “sand ...

Event is fundraiser for community foundation By JEFF NEWMAN Staff writer To your average person, duck decoys might seem spectacularly unspectacular. Blocks of wood carved and painted to resemble ducks ...

In the Pacific Flyway, delicate wooden carvings with iridescent paint jobs now replace what was once a simple hunting tool. Mike Bisceglia of Flournoy began carving into a traditional American art ...

Duck hunters are cut from a rare cloth. The sport is expensive and time consuming, pushing marriages and work to their brink, and the birds we pursue move best in the very conditions that keep most ...

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