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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 ...

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 ...

EASTON — The Buy, Swap and Sell show at the Waterfowl Festival had many exhibitors showcasing their best hunting and show decoys. Some of the exhibitors have been at the same show for decades. You ...

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, ...

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 ...

EASTON — Decoys have long been used in hunting communities, but to the crowd at the Waterfowl Festival, the wood carvings serve more than just a utilitarian purpose. According to Cooper Rossner, a ...

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 ...

POINT PLEASANT - Arthur "Artie" Birdsall's life is devoted to carving duck decoys, a tradition that goes back generations in his family and a vocation to which he has committed 50 years of his life.

Corey Lawrence is from Harkers Island and carves duck decoys as his well-known father did. For reasons that will become apparent, the eight decoys he is making now are the most important he has ever ...

“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 ...