On a hot day in August two years ago, I was throwing everything I had in my tackle box to what I thought was a nice fishy looking area on Cook Pond. It was the perfect setup except for the air temp.

As a result of a declining union workforce, bankruptcies of employers contributing to multiemployer pension plans (MEPPs), and tax rules that prevented MEPPs from developing sufficient reserves, many ...

If you visit with any number of anglers, many will mention cutting their teeth with some type of Mepps lure. The versatile inline spinner is ideal for species of game fish ranging in size from ...

While the country has been focused on the many social, economic, and political impacts of the coronavirus pandemic over the last year, one of the less-discussed crises was the impending collapse of ...

As snow flurries quietly danced from overcast skies on a cold Saturday morning, the sharp rapport of a Marlin .22-caliber rifle pierced the eerie January silence. Joining the snow in its downward ...

ANTIGO – Mepps makes about 8,000 spinning-lure combinations at its 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, but if you buy one of its storied spinners with hooks dressed in squirrel-tail, you can ...

Arkansas’ squirrel season runs through Feb. 28, and the world-famous Mepps Lure Co. reminds hunters they can make money by saving and selling the tails of the squirrels they kill to eat. The tails can ...

Thank God they flick their tails. I’d been hearing one bark for five minutes, but it’s only that ­visual cue that reveals the rodent, flattened and frozen against a hickory 30 yards away. I brace the ...

My wife and I awoke at 2 a.m. on Tuesday to leave ample time for our 6 a.m. departure from the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. After conducting my one and only fishing trip for the week on ...

Pennsylvania hunters: Don't just throw away your squirrel tails this hunting season. Mepps, an iconic lure shop located in Wisconsin, is offering money for squirrel tails. Mepps has a storied ...