Pat Gregory is an award winning decoy carver. He carves both
duck and fish decoys but specializes in ducks. Pat has a long
standing history of decoy carving in his family. His great grandfather
George Barto was a famous Illinois River decoy carver.
Click here to read a Pantagraph
Newspaper article about Pat and his great grandfather.
Click here to read a magazine article about Pat published in Decoy
Magazine.
Pat carves in the neighborhood of two hundred ducks a year.
Most of his carvings are working decoys but Pat will on occasion carve a
decorative duck.
Pat
carved this decoy then donated it to the club for the raffle at the 2001
Club Show. The proceeds are to help pay for next years show.

Here's Pat at the 2001 Club Show displaying some of his
decoy carvings.
Below is Pat's donation to the 2002 Show raffle. It's
a Blue Winged Teal Hen.
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