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 ...

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 ...

BELGRADE, Minn. (AP) - 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 ...