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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The explosion in synthetic materials in the tackle business hasn't diminished the demand for a key ingredient in one of Mepps' most popular offerings -- natural squirrel fur used to dress the ...

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 ...

“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 ...