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 ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

Mepps has field-tested nearly every natural and synthetic hair to replace the squirrel-tail hair it uses to make its hand-tied fishing lures. Bear, fox, coyote, badger, deer and cow hair have been ...

Today’s crappie lures come in a vast array of sizes, colors, patterns and actions. And that’s a good thing, because you never know where you’ll find these nomadic fish and what will trip their trigger ...

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 ...

As we pushed off from the boat ramp, my competitive fishing partner had a suggestion. “How about a dollar on the first fish, another on the largest and a third dollar on the most fish?” Not being one ...