2018 Minnesota Spearing Season

This orange and white McEvers decoy is still bringing them in after five years.

Most of my fish houses are small. 

           

    

Crappie Time!

Angling for sunfish and crappies is picking up in the Vergas Minnesota area.  Picked up this nice 13 incher the other day after test swimming a small cedar decoy.

Listing decoys on Ebay

In 2000, I  entered the computer age with a digital camera, and an Ebay address called Hollowtop.    Over the next fourteen years,  over a thousand  photos were stored in Cyberspace.  Over 700 of the decoy photos  were downloaded and put into this book in 2014.   It is a record of my work during that time.   

Decoy picture taken at the bird feeder.

Unshelled sunflower seeds for the birds.
 Cracking them open  gives them something to do.

Fish Decoys on display 

at the Milwaukee Art Museum

Penguin Carving

Winter is here.  Ice!  Ice!  Walk like a penguin.  

Took a break from fish decoys,  and carved a penguin for my wife.  

6" H  X 7" W 

Traditional Working Decoys

     Old fashioned working decoys were often made from a pine board salvaged from  an  apple box.  Lead was melted over an old wood stove in a tin can,  and their metal fins were often tweeked to swim.  

     Shown here are decoys made from a dense Ponderas pine. It was originally purchased  in high mountain Montana when I lived there, and rediscovered  recently while cleaning out the corners of my wood shed.  

     The old timers used a little  red paint to make their decoys  look like a wounded fish. Or maybe the red was the only color they had left after painting  the barn!  

Classic working decoys in three styles by McEvers:
  Forktail, The Two Fourteen Special, and the Baker.  

Roam'n in the Gloam'n

There's a fox!

 A fox roam'n in the gloam'n  

HUNTING & FISHING COLLECTIBLES MAGAZINE March-April 2006

Click on each photo to enlarge.  Overcast and rainy - good duck hunting weather out here in the hinterlands.  

Jay McEvers Totem Fish Decoy

 featured in Hunting & Fishing Collectibles Magazine in March-April 2006

The deer have taken a bite out of the pumpkin. Can ice fishing season be far behind?

                        Here's a 2-1/4 inch Mini made of Pine and sold to a Minnesota collector.

Grape Stain Decoy

Wild grapes were used to stain this 6" pine decoy 

Sold  on Ebay, August 21, 2018

Ducks Unlimited Decoy

Ducks Unlimited Special.  Cedar Forktail.  Burn lines on the top of the decoy show the DU logo and 2018.  Sold on Ebay.  

Lake Superior Agate First in a Series

Lake Superior Agate Design on Jay's "2014 Special" Decoy.

This was a "buy it now" folks that  sold on Ebay.  

Sunfish Summer and Winter

Driving Slow

Driving slow through Roosevelt National Park on the western border of North Dakota, where there are  buffalo and  prairie dog  towns.

Happenings at the Muskrat Lodge

Lakes, woodlands, and deer in the field.

                             

  Custom Jay McEvers Knife.
6-1/2 inches long with a 3-1/2 inch blade
Red Elm Handle with  2 burn outlined Northern.
elk Antler stand. Sold.

                                     

Here's one of the Largest Totems I've made. 18-1/2 inches long. Traded for a large bag of Marbles.