[gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”random” animation_effect=”” album_title=”false” album_id=”327″] James “Judd or Jim” Nelson Master Carver 1926-2013 As was typical of many who grew up in Northern Michigan during the Great Depression, Jim carved his first decoy in …
[gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”random” animation_effect=”” album_title=”false” album_id=”303″] Robert Mihaescu was born in 1967 and and grew up in Algonac, Michigan, which neighbors the nearby marshes, aka St. Clair Flats area and the Anchor Bay which draws …
[gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”random” animation_effect=”” album_title=”false” album_id=”295″] Tim Meidinger is from North Dakota and he started carving fish decoys in 2000 and had carved about 30 by the end of 2006. He began carving with North …
[gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”random” animation_effect=”” album_title=”false” album_id=”297″] Marcel Meloche is from Ontario, Canada. He was born in He is highly regarded as one of the best contemporary carvers and has won his 3rd World Championship at …
Marvin J. “Mase” Mason, Jr. Cheboygan Michigan 1941 – There is probably no family in Northern Michigan more devoted to the art of fish decoy carving than the Mason family and all it’s branches. In this family it seems as …
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Carl was born in 1939 and now hails from Cape haze Florida, but is formerly from Schenectady (Niskayuna) New York. Carl started doing ice fishing decoys in the late 80s along with shore bird decoys duck decoys, and fishing folk …
Albert Hoppe is from the Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota area and he passed on from Cancer in 1997. After his death his wife Arlene Hoppe gave all of his fish decoys away. Jan Winterhalter-McGough, Albert’s grandchild remembers going out in the …
[gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”random” animation_effect=”” album_title=”false” album_id=”186″] Jessie Harriger (by Glenn Harriger 2005) My dad was born in rural Luce County in 1929. His family lived on and operated a small farm of multiple mix (beef …
Carl Harris is from Northfield, New Jersey and he started making decoys in March 2010 and he loves wood working. He also makes hand carved lures and and with his love of woodworking and fishing and the great outdoors he …
Jeff Faigley was born in 1976 and is from Lancaster, Ohio and has been doing woodworking since he was 10 years old where he helped in his dad’s workshop. Jeff likes to do both Folk Art and Realistic Paint Jobs. …
