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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you want to make money by hunting, you have a couple of choices. One -- get yourself a TV hunting show. Two -- shoot a bunch of squirrels and send them to the Mepps fishing lure company in Antigo, ...

Jerry Riccio, of Washington’s Crossing, earned a special fishing honor recently. By using Mepps spinners to catch fish that met certain size requirements, Riccio was awarded a Mepps Master Angler ...

As we pushed off from the boat ramp, my competitive fishing partner had a suggestion. “How about a dollar on the first fish, another on the largest and a third dollar on the most fish?” Not being one ...

As I have detailed in this column over the past two weeks, my wife and I recently spent a week out of state on a business trip to Wisconsin. Along the way we visited with the good people at both the ...