WAUSAU - Growing up near the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois, Mike Pierce of Wausau developed a deep and abiding fondness for duck hunting. First, it was calling that struck his fancy. His ...

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Recently, Grant McOmie of KGW’s “Grant’s Getaways” interviewed retired educator Astorian Rick Pass (pictured), well known for ...

Decoy carving is a quintessential American art form. Native Americans were creating hunting decoys for centuries before white man came to our shores. Today, decoy carving is big business. Hunters use ...

Don't be misled by the modest moniker. Curt Soine, this year's featured artist for the Meander, creates works of art and sells them under the brand Curt's Decoys. Many also happen to be ...

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 ...

The imitation waterfowl, made to resemble their living counterparts, have been used for centuries to lure birds from the sky to within shooting range for waiting hunters. The first decoys, made from ...

OCONOMOWOC - The world is seemingly spinning faster than ever these days. As normalcy is pierced by the coronavirus pandemic, some would argue it's also out of control. The unsettling times have many ...

The increasingly rare art of duck decoy carving is celebrated at The Louisiana Wildfowl Festival this weekend in Mandeville (Photo by Liz Artists from across the country, as well as England and Canada ...

There's something almost ethereal about the humble duck, says Eliot, Maine, resident Jim Higgins — its beauty, its wanderlust, its calls, its many hues. From the time he was a young man, he has been ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - Duck hunters in Missouri will have to wait a few more months to hit the blinds, but anyone is welcome to attend the Cape Nature Center’s duck decoy carving workshop in ...

MIDDLE RIVER, Minn.-Joel Huener says he's always been "kind of a rabid do-it-yourselfer," a trait that also rubbed off on his hunting and fishing. "I tie flies, I make rods and I load my own ammo," ...