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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 hunting companion is upset because he only has 16 squirrel tails to send to the Mepps lure company. Rich has sent as many as 120 squirrel tails to Mepps in years past. Most of them were squirrels ...

“Hey, Festus, there’s some stuff you don’t know and you might want to rethink your bad-mouthing me like that,” I said. The response, squirrel gibberish spewing from his mouth like the staccato rhythm ...