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 ...

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 ...

Like any fisherman, I have favorite lures. Mine include the Jitterbug, Mepps spinners, Rapalas and the lowly jig. They worked in the 1940s when I starting fishing, and they work today. The Jitterbug ...

Deer season is over, and the holiday season is upon us. Ice fishing seems one of the few remaining pursuits for the outdoorsman or woman. But squirrel hunting in Wisconsin continues until January 31.

Colin Butler, of Fulton, shares this picture of a 15-pound northern pike he said he caught May 2 on Ox Creek, a tributary off the Oswego River, south of Fulton. He said he landed him on a Mepps No. 5 ...

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 ...