HOT SPRINGS — Gather ’round. Cotton Cordell’s going to tell you about one that got away. “Had a friend of mine, Glen Owens. He’d had some regular customers. Well, it was him and one of his old ...

Carl Richey "Cotton" Cordell, one of the biggest names in fishing, died Tuesday in Hot Springs. His obituary listed some of his life's highlights and honors, such as enshrinement in the National ...

Paul Wesley “Cotton” Cordell, 89, of Hixson, passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 4, 2025. Born to Smith and Geneva ...

Bobby Murray has brought the Big O full circle. In the spring of 1973, Murray, then an employee of Cotton Cordell Lure Co., was fishing a B.A.S.S. Tournament on Beaver Lake in Ark.. He called Cotton ...

The man who introduced "alphabet" lures to the world of bass fishing passed away Thrusday in Hot Spring, Ark. Carl "Cotton" Cordell, who manufactured the "Big O" plastic crankbait among many other now ...

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