When I was a kid, my dad and I would fish for trout in the lakes and ponds around Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Most of our fishing trips involved sitting on a bank watching a bobber. Below the surface was a ball of Velveeta cheese gently formed around a hook. I have caught many a trout on Velveeta cheese. However, as I got older, I got restless sitting and waiting on a bobber to go under and started trying my luck casting and retrieving a fishing lure. It seems every tackle box I’ve looked in as I’ve grown older has a Mepps rooster tail lure in it, and I had one in mine as a kid. I have fished them and seen them fished in ponds, lakes, rivers, ponds, and creeks and they always seem to catch fish.
The history of the Mepp’s lure is an interesting read. First designed by French engineer Andrew Meulnart, the word Mepps is a French acronym -Â Manufacturier D’Engins De Precision Pour Peches Sportives. Translated, Mepps means Precision Equipment for Sport Fishing. From the first lure develop by Meulnart in 1938, the Mepps brand now consists of more than four-thousand different spinners and spoons. The French company was purchased by Todd Sheldon in the 1950’s which was one of the largest sellers of Mepps in the US at the time. All Mepps spinners and spoons that are sold in the US are hand assembled by the fine people of Antigo, Wisconsin. When you are fishing a Mepps lure, you can be confident that they will catch fish in any condition on every continent. The Sheldon family have caught fish on their lure all over the world to include catching fish in the Arctic Circle!
We put a black Mepps style rooster tail to work at a local pond recently. Check it out on our YouTube channel and see the results!
