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 ...

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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 ...

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 made ...