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 ...

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 ...

A couple of my hunting buddies enjoy hunting small game once deer season winds down. But in the past we always discarded squirrel hides. While reading a fur buyer’s guide recently, I was surprised to ...

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 ...