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 ...

The expert anglers at Milliken Fishing demonstrate step-by-step how to custom paint crankbaits effectively, turning ordinary lures into irresistible killers.

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 ...

The little red boat hadn’t seen water in three years before last weekend. Not since that Saturday afternoon the 15-horse outboard that powered it decided to conk out. Braden Durick was with me that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fishing lures come in so many colors, it's hard to imagine there's not one to satisfy everybody. But fishermen can be downright particular Tony Rogers is counting on counting on anglers like that for ...

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 ...