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.

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 ...

“That Zebco Guy” Dick Braun talks about a small portion of his collection, covering all the tables at left, during the Old Reel Collectors Association national convention in Tulsa on Thursday.” KELLY ...

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.

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 ...