My son Ben has gotten into pike spearing and carving the spearing decoys to go with those pursuits. He has enjoyed making them, and challenged me to come up with one to try out. I chose a tullibee or cisco decoy since they are an important food resource for northerns on Lake of the Woods.

This decoy is carved from northern white cedar, with fins cut from copper sheet. Painting was done with acrylics, and it has a topcoat of Envirotex. I followed some weighting instructions when pouring lead for internal weights to get the balance right.  When jigged, the decoy swims in a 5-6' diameter right hand circle.  No northerns came in to the decoy the one afternoon I tried it.