LA CONNER — Master decoy carver Tom Newell is getting ready to bring it. And if you’re entering Saturday’s 2018 Washington Brant Foundation Puget Sound Open decoy carving contest, you had better be ...

MOUNT VERNON — The Washington Brant Foundation’s Puget Sound Open Decoy Carving Competition returns Saturday to Burlington’s Maiben Park. The foundation’s annual fundraiser will include carving ...

J.P. HAND sits at his workbench placing a freshly painted rig of 10 brant decoys into a slot bag while we get ready to hunt in the morning. He constructed each brant from three pieces of Atlantic ...

In a long career as an outdoor journalist, one of the few things in the hook-‘n-bullet world I’ve never had the opportunity to try is brant hunting. Always wanted to, because the small, dark, sea ...

TILGHMAN — A rare Brant decoy, carved by Ira Hudson, Chincoteague, circa 1920-30 will be a live auction item at the Tilghman Watermen’s Museum’s sixth annual fundraiser, Splendor, to be held from 5 to ...

MOUNT VERNON — Marty Hanson began carving decoys when he was 10 years old. Some 41 years later, the Hayward, Minnesota, resident is a world-class carver whose decoys are highly sought by collectors ...

Artist Kevin McBride's booth at the 37th Annual Chincoteague Island Easter Decoy and Art Festival on March 25 and 26 will feature his recently completed painting honoring five of the island's most ...