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 ...

FRAZEE, Minn. -- John Jensen used to have time to fish. Now he's too busy carving them. A self-taught folk artist, Jensen has become a master of fish decoys. Handcarved with a knife and hand-painted ...

It’s a cold, snowy day when I meet Linda Jones outside of Cranberry Lake. She shovels a path from her house to the workshop, the headquarters of St. Lawrence River Decoys. That's where Linda and her ...

Jake Sazama likes to keep a dead fish or two in his freezer so he can take one out whenever he wants and stare at it. Analyzing each color and texture, the 18-year-old Perham (Minn.) High School ...

Sometimes one’s passion for a hobby can turn into a lifelong venture. Bob Jones has carved and painted wooden duck decoys for more than 60... Oct 13, 2020 — Sometimes one’s passion for a hobby can ...

THOMPSONVILLE — Dave Kober got to the point where he was a year behind on orders. Tom Izzo knows him, but in case you didn’t, Kober makes wooden fish decoys.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- In the "Land of 10,000 Lakes," fishing is a big deal. And in some circles, so is fishing folk art. Not many people know that collecting spear fishing decoys is an actual thing.

Though Jefferson City borders the Missouri River, it is not, at least in this era, considered as a major site for waterfowl or duck hunting. Jefferson City was, however, a major center for wooden duck ...

SCOTT COUNTY, Minn. (WCCO) --Brian Shallbetter doesn't consider spearfishing an escape from reality, but rather a dive into it. "It's a neat, underwater world to watch," the Scott County man said.

EAST GRAND FORKS – “Making sawdust” has been a passion for John “Jack” Donelan for more than half of his 87 years. It all started back in the ’60s, when Donelan began carving “working birds” – wooden ...