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Zebco fishing reels are the most popular reels in history. They are also the most neglected. Granted, they are relatively cheap by today's standards for reels, but they are by no means disposable.

Spincast reels—also known as “push button” or “closed face” reels—get a bad rap. That’s largely the result of the fact that, unlike most “serious” tackle like spinning reels or baitcasting reels, many ...

Zebco fishing rod and reel in package. The rod is black with silver and orange detailing marked "Centennial TM No. 6100". The Zebco company began as the Zero Hour Bomb Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma in ...

Every summer, throngs of children line the banks at area ponds on Take Me Fishing Day in hopes of catching their first fish. Many of the fishing novices use Zebco rods and reels, made by the event’s ...

TULSA, Okla. -- The manufacturing plant that provided generations of Americans with their first fishing reels shut down Friday after 52 years because the company has shifted production to Asia.

Almost every angler will agree there’s a learning curve to using standard spinning and baitcasting setups. Dealing with a tangled bird’s nest of lines is basically inevitable for new fishermen.

Birmingham's Lawson Richards, a friend for 25 years, showed up at my Springville restaurant the other day to announce he had brought me "a little something." I don't know if it was Richards' ...

Roy Hull (left) and his brother Jerry Hull hold some of the Zebco items they recently donated to the Tulsa Historical Society. Their father, R.D. Hull, invented the closed-case fishing reel, produced ...

Zebco completes its layoff of 200 worker in Tulsa. The last 90 said their good-byes at the plant on East Apache. Is it a sign of an economy on the downside? As KOTV's Donn Robertson reports, local ...