mj0007/istockphotoOnce seen as mere hunting tools, duck decoys have waddled their way into the world of collecting hobbies. It’s easy to see why: These handcrafted works of art are painted with ...

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The most substantial decoy is a 40-pound cast iron canvasback duck created to stabilize a sink box, a sunken hunting blind once popular around the Sandusky Bay marshes.

Decoy carver Lee Dudley, who lived on Knotts Island, made the canvasback famous as he turned out rafts of the ducks for hunters to use in the water to lure in their prey. “He was the most famous ...

A painting depicting a pair of canvasback ducks by Elyria native Adam Grimm captured the 2014 Federal Duck Stamp Competition held last year at Maumee Bay State Park on the Lake Erie shoreline.