MOUNT VERNON — Marty Hanson began carving decoys when he was 10 years old. Some 41 years later, the Hayward, Minnesota, resident is a world-class carver whose decoys are highly sought by collectors ...

Bill Sarni grew up next door to Joseph W. Lincoln, a famous decoy carver whose decoys are highly sought out by collectors today, both here and abroad. Bill spent much of his youth hunting and fishing ...

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," ...

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 ...

Bill Browne graduated from Lincoln Southeast High School in 1972 and he went on to go to get a degree from the UNL College of Law and after he graduated and shortly after he passed the bar, Bill had a ...

Tom Flemming grew up on a dairy farm in west-central Minnesota, where the great outdoors was just outside his door. "I'd go waterfowl and pheasant hunting with my dad and friends,'' Flemming said. "I ...

Until he carved his first decoys, Jerry Talton was, by his own description, a “wild-ass redneck surfer dude” from the North Carolina coast. His brother was actually the duck hunter, and one year, ...

HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. -- In an old, seemingly insignificant shed behind the Havre de Grace Decoy Museum sits the untouched workshop of R. Madison Mitchell, the most famous of this small riverfront ...

Chris Linn had been painting decorative waterfowl decoys for more than two decades when this winter she decided to try something a little different. Working from a studio in her home in the hills ...

It was an ordinary log from a paulownia tree, a seasoned slice of timber that, in another life, might have gone up in smoke in the fireplace of the Carson home in Havre de Grace. But Dan Carson had ...

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 ...

J.P. HAND sits at his workbench placing a freshly painted rig of 10 brant decoys into a slot bag while we get ready to hunt in the morning. He constructed each brant from three pieces of Atlantic ...