After spending a good part of my young adult life fishing northern Minnesota - mostly the Alexandria and Perham areas - I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to show with my tables. The hard part was how to make them look as real as possible. 

    After going over multiple scenarios, I decided to go back to the beginning and try to kick start my artistic vision. On the crappie table (which features a one and a half pound crappie in the table that i caught in Perham) the ideas were flow...

Hello, My name is Don Erickson and I started www.dderickson.com to bring a little nature inside through art.

Just to give you a little background on me, I am 47 years old and live with my wife  of 25 years in Lakeville Minn. We have 2 boys, 24 and 21 years old. I am a avid fisherman and fishing collector. I have a room in my home that is dedicated to my years of fishing and fishing antiques. I have 113 antique fishing reels, around 100 lures, couple old boat motors and other odds and ends. ...