French angler Andre Meulnart invented the inline spinner in 1938 while working for a company called Manufacturier d’Engins de Precision pour Peches Sportives. You probably know the brand by its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Northern, smallmouth and largemouth bass, and panfish putting on a good to excellent bite, with musky and walleye good; all in the Eagle River, Wisconsin area. Surface water temps in the Eagle River, ...