Compare that to the cost of real-fish taxidermy, or graphite/fiberglass reproductions, which can cost from $10 to $15 per inch, making that 52-inch muskie a $500 to $750 fish.

CROSSLAKE, Minn. – Once Kirk Schnitker settled into his fish house on Cross Lake, he opened a large, multilayered toolbox that contained dozens of hand-carved fish decoys, including some that… ...

He’d spent 27 years in steel fabrication and started his own company, Ledco, in 1976. After Blake’s death, Ledbetter began creating art from metal and found objects, and the healing process began.