In Greek mythology, the Cyclops was a one eyed being.  The three sons of Uranus and Gaea were said to have been Cyclopes.  Each son was a titan, meaning that they were of phenomenal size and strength.  Their names were Brontes, which means thunderer; Arges, which means bright; and Steropes meaning lightner, which translates to lightning.  All together, they were the producers of Zeus’s thunderbolt and lightning.  Just like the Greek Cyclopes, the Mepps Syclops sports just one eye and produces bright light flashes and thunderous results.  Lure designer and outdoor writer, Andre Muelnart from France designed what today is the Mepps Syclops (www.mepps.com).  Much like the Cyclopes of Greek mythology, the Mepps Syclops has one eye.  The Mepps Syclops’ unique shape has 10 reflective surfaces on the spoon.  When any light strikes the spoon, numerous bright reflective beams of light flash everywhere.  The spoon also has a realistic fish scale pattern. 

Mepps Syclops come in a number of sizes and styles.  The Mepps Bantam Syclops and Syclops are perfect for trolled, cast, jigged, or on a controlled drift.  Both of them are available in the GLO series.  The GLO series features an exclusive paint finish that really GLO in the dark.  Bantam Syclopes are extremely light and come rigged with a single hook while the Syclops Lite is rigged with a treble hook with a bright strike attractor tube for maximum visibility. The Mepps Syclops comes in a variety of color patterns with either a single hook or treble hook and sizes range from a 1/8- to 1-ounce. The Mepps Saltwater Syclops in sizes ranging from 1/4- to 1-ounce in weight and four color patterns.

Every Mepps Syclops can be fished by trolling, cast, drifted, or jigged vertically.  Anglers from all over the world have caught a variety of fish using the Mepps Syclops.  Here are just a few examples of where Mepps Syclops are used to catch fish.  

In the Great Lakes, anglers trolling with the outboard engine catch rainbow trout, brown trout, Coho salmon, and Chinook salmon on Mepps Syclops.  Anglers will either rig them on downriggers at certain depths or highline them.  Highlining is when anglers take a long, limber rod and let it out 50- to 100-yards with no weight.  This technique keeps the spoon running close to the surface for shallow fish to strike.

In the Canadian reservoirs or streams, northern pike can be caught on spoons by simply casting out and steadily retrieving them.  Key areas to catching them are near rocks or aquatic vegetation.  A favorite lure among anglers fishing for northern pike is the #2 Mepps Syclops in a hot orange pattern.

In southern highland reservoirs like Beaver Lake in Arkansas or Table Rock in Missouri, white, hybrid, striped, largemouth, smallmouth, or spotted bass can all be caught on spoons.  Which technique an angler uses to catch them depends on the time of year and how active the bass are.  When bass are schooling on the surface, anglers can cast out past the schooling fish and rip it quickly back or jig it back on a pull and drop stroke.  If the bass are not schooling, anglers can catch them vertically jigging.  This technique requires anglers to find bass on sonar units located on submerged structure like humps, creek channels, ledges, river channel swings, points, flats, around sunken brush piles, or suspended near any submerged structure.  Once found, groups of bass can be caught by dropping the spoon vertically to whatever depth the bass are located at and jigging it up and down.

One of the unique aspects of fishing a spoon vertically is the strike.  Unlike the majority of other lures, the action of the spoon is dependent on the angler fishing it.  If not present correctly, fish will simply move away or refuse to strike it.  Almost every strike on a spoon happens when the angler allow it to have slack in the line, allowing the spoon to fall.  Fish love the wobbling, side to side, falling action spoon have when falling.  This falling action resumes a baitfish dying and an easy meal.  Some strikes are soft while others almost rip the rod out of your hands.

If any of the Cyclopses were alive today, they would be fishing with the Mepps Syclops.  It has the bright light flashes that Arges and Steropes love and Brontes would enjoy the thundering fish catching results.  Who knew that in Greek mythology, the Cyclops, a one eye being, could ended up resembling one of the most versatile fish catching spoons available to anglers.