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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mepps currently receives about 2,000 to 3,000 Angler Award applications per year. “We give out about 250 Master Angler Awards per year,” said Golbach, who noted an angler receives a Trophy Fish Award ...

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 ...

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 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 ...