The craft of making fishing lures is a surprisingly secretive one: Traditions are passed down through families, each tight-lipped about the methods of their art. So Ron Mirabile set out some years ago ...

Larry Welcome of Cutchogue has been hooked on fishing since his dad took him for the first time at age 5. Like most anglers, Welcome started fishing using bait and targeting smaller, readily available ...

It’s not everyone who gets mentioned by name in Carl F. Lucky’s authoritative fourth-edition guide to old fishing lures and tackle. Sure, the reference book might be a bit obscure for most people, but ...

A Mississippi teenager with a love of fishing combined that passion with his enjoyment of painting and the outcome was hand-painted fishing lures that are not only catching fish, they're catching ...

It isn’t often that a dream comes true. But such is the case for Hank Masson of Trader Bay Lures in Titusville. Masson started about four years ago with an idea that he could design and manufacture a ...