Today Antonio and I are out on the waters of Lake Erie. We're casting the Stingeye Spinners cranking for smallmouth bass.

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 ...

One thing I have learned this year is to not forget about classic lures or riggings that were considered “forgotten” or “abandoned” or thought of as “old school.” Back in the day, say 20 or 30 years ...

Thank God they flick their tails. I’d been hearing one bark for five minutes, but it’s only that ­visual cue that reveals the rodent, flattened and frozen against a hickory 30 yards away. I brace 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 ...