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.

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.

Months after Zebco closed its factory here in Tulsa, the company’s being sold. Illinois-based Brunswick Corporation says it’s selling the Zebco fishing reel division, headquartered in Tulsa to W-C ...

TULSA, Okla. — Jimmy Houston, angler by trade, can tell you a story or two about the big ones that got away. But it’s the reel that got away that gets him down. Houston can remember the first Zebco ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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' ...