On a hot day in August two years ago, I was throwing everything I had in my tackle box to what I thought was a nice fishy looking area on Cook Pond. It was the perfect setup except for the air temp.

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 ...

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 ...