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 ...

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 ...

From an art studio and workshop in a Cleveland Heights home are born many of the hottest lure colors ever to dangle from anglers’ fishing lines. Many of the beautiful hues that lure anglers to spend ...

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 ...

We weren’t on the water long before fishing guide “Big Ed” Franko pulled out his hand-painted fishing lures. He’s proud of them and probably should be. The plastic square bills, deep divers and jerk ...

As a youngster, Jared DuCote spent a lot of time drawing and painting at his father’s sign shop. He eventually developed a knack for finely detailed portraits that almost look like photographs. In ...

OSHKOSH, Wis. -- Long before Wisconsin became a state, its lakes and rivers were a source of sustenance, Native American tribes mastered fishing techniques, employing everything from spears to nets, ...

What’s a fisherman to do during the long winter months when it’s too cold to fish open water, but not cold enough to ice fish? For David Jorgensen of Central City, the answer is simple – paint lures.

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We weren’t on the water long before fishing guide “Big Ed” Franko pulled out his hand-painted fishing lures. He’s proud of them and probably should be. The plastic square bills, deep divers and jerk ...