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 ...

An inside-joke among trout fisherman for decades has been the idea that most trout fishing lures are designed more to attract anglers, and their dollars, than to attract fish. Here are 10 popular ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every now and then, a buddy and I will go Zen on a fishing trip and confine ourselves to 10 lures each. No exceptions. It’s a brutal task, winnowing down an entire shelving unit full of lures. But ...

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 ...