The goal was simple: build a functioning fish trap using only palm tree materials and set it in a tide pool to catch whatever exotic fish and crabs happened to be living there. The execution is ...

Can a simple plastic bottle beat a professional fish trap? We put DIY creativity to the test in this head-to-head fish-catching showdown. Watch as both traps hit the water—only one comes out on top.

He might not have known it at the time, but Dave Genz was making ice fishing history in 1980 when he built the first flip-top portable ice fishing shelter in the garage of his Twin Cities-area home.