Ron is the author of Michigan’s Master Carver, Oscar W. Peterson. He was born in Cadillac, Michigan in 1947 and grew up in t Traverse City area. Ron now resides in Fife Lake, Michigan and stays involved in fishing, hunting …
Fritz, Ronald J – Northern Lower Peninsula – Zephyrhills, Florida Read More »
[gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”random” animation_effect=”” album_title=”false” album_id=”141″] Elwood Fries enjoyed painting and wood crafting during his free time. He carved and painted at least 100 fish decoys until his wife asked him to stop because she …
John Fonger is from Oscoda, Michigan. This is an email to me about Fish Decoys Net and a little bit of carver’s story: “I was looking at your web site last night and it has really improved so I thought …
James “Jim” Foote (1925-2004) formally of Gibraltar, Michigan. Jim was a world renowned wildlife artist. His wildlife paintings & carvings of waterfowl & fish decoys are prized worldwide. Jim was a co-founder along with myself of the Great Lakes Fish …
Foote, James E. “Jim”- Marco Island, FL or Gibraltar, Area 6, MI Read More »
[gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”random” animation_effect=”” album_title=”false” album_id=”138″] Ray Forner is of Rockville, Minnesota. Since 1938 “I was bidding on eBay for a lizard like this from Ray and at the last minute, I got sniped, so …
Forner, Raymond – Cold Springs or Rockville or Laporte, Minnesota Read More »
[gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”random” animation_effect=”” album_title=”false” album_id=”139″] Bob Foster is from West Des Moines, Iowa and styles after carvings from DFD. He signs Bob Foster on bottom of the decoys. Bob was born in late 1937 …
Foster, Robert Eugene ‘Bob’ – West Des Moines, Iowa Read More »
[gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”random” animation_effect=”” album_title=”false” album_id=”134″] Jim was born in 1954 and is from Algonac, Saint Clair County, Michigan Jim wrote the following “I got started carving decoys when I started spearing pike after inheriting …
Felgenauer, James ‘Jim’ G – Algonac, Saint Clair County, Michigan Read More »
[gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”random” animation_effect=”” album_title=”false” album_id=”131″] John Fairfield is from Marenisco, Michigan located in the central-western area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. One area that may help identify a John Fairfield decoy is his …
Fairfield, John – Marenisco, Area 1, Western, U.P. of Michigan Read More »
[gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”random” animation_effect=”” album_title=”false” album_id=”132″] Dominick Famiano was from Lake Ann, Michigan. Reprint permission by The Reader (Full Article from The Reader) Dominick passed away unexpectedly on Thursday Jan. 31, 2008 at Munson Medical …
[gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”random” animation_effect=”” album_title=”false” album_id=”128″] Double H Decoys Meyre’s Lures Harold Henry Eyre (1932-2012) Michael Harold Eyre (1956-Present) Harold Henry Eyre was born in 1932 and his son who was born in 1956 both …
