An essential piece of equipment for the early American ice fisherman was the fish decoy. A fish decoy was a crudely fashioned enticement made of horn, bone or weighted wood. It was lowered by a string ...

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 ...

“Hard to tell this thing from a real crappie,” said my friend Dan Scherer, as we passed around the glistening decoy. “Except for we can’t clean and fry it.” In my hands, the crappie was solid, but its ...

Ely, Minn. – Fish decoys are the embodiment of functional art. In water, they attract fish. On display, they lure people. According to fish decoy-carver and appraiser Tim Stouffer of Ely, Minn., a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Carved wooden ice fishing decoy in ...

Ice fishing decoys boast one of the oldest pedigrees of contemporary collectibles. And, compared with its more widely collected cousin, the duck decoy, the fish decoy market still has room to grow, ...

BELGRADE, Minn. - Dennis Bertram worked the curved blade in an unhurried rhythm, releasing thin curls of redwood. The emerging decoy lost its band-saw edges while old-time country played on the radio.

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 ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Carved, wooden ice fishing decoy in ...