When he was a kid, Dave Perkins and his friends speared northern pike on cold Minnesota days. Perkins made all of his own spearing decoys, the wooden fish designed to lure pike close enough for ...

CROSSLAKE, Minn. – Once Kirk Schnitker settled into his fish house on Cross Lake, he opened a large, multilayered toolbox that contained dozens of hand-carved fish decoys, including some that looked ...

WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) - A Lidgerwood man’s passion for woodworking has developed into a successful business. Whittier Spear Fishing Decoys, owned by Rick Whittier, sells beautifully painted, carved wood ...

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 ...

KALAMAZOO --Craig "Curly" Spink swirls a handmade jig above a water-filled 15-Gallon galvanized steel tub in his Kalamazoo back yard, tugging and relaxing the line attached to a wooden fish decoy he ...

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 ...

LIDGERWOOD, N.D. - Rick Whittier's business keeps him so busy making fish, he barely has time to catch them anymore. "We even got a brand new spear this year, and we never even got to use it," he said ...

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 ...

Perkins’ Duluth Fish Decoys find their way to the coffee tables, fireplace mantels and display cases of well-heeled collectors, especially on the East and West coasts, dealers say. His decoys are ...