When Rick Brouwer finishes an art project, sometimes he tosses it into the lake. Each custom-painted fishing lure he creates is a functional work of hand-crafted art. They're beautiful to look at, but ...

GRAND FORKS – Like so many good plans, it started with a few cold beverages and a discussion about fishing, Joel Holweger recalls. Holweger, of Grand Forks, says he and buddy Jamey Corbit were talking ...

A Mississippi teenager with a love of fishing combined that passion with his enjoyment of painting and the outcome was hand-painted fishing lures that are not only catching fish, they're catching ...

On a hot summer day, Matt Glover attracted a crowd when he pulled into a marina at Lake Jacomo in Missouri and lifted a big stringer of crappie out of his boat's live well. Fishermen who spent hours ...

I shouldn’t have been surprised. The East Tennessee region where he made his name is notoriously insular, with a history of bootlegging and moonshiners who took great pains to hide themselves from ...

DULUTH — In the dusky, dusty basement of his West Duluth home — don’t forget to duck going down the stairs — Ed Forrestal works his magic with plastic and metal, epoxy and paint. Forrestal is the ...

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