Jeff Samsel Fishing

My fishing year is off to a very spotty start in a couple of different ways. First, I simply haven't fished that much. I've made...

Jimmy Mason with a couple of Guntersville chunks during my most recent Tennessee River outing. I'm not going to narrow it that muc...

With two months having already passed, my 2018 fish species list remains sadly sparse. I did add a two bass species a couple of weeks ago,...

Last week I spent a few hours kayak fishing in a small lake near Selma, Alabama. After I had finished fishing, had loaded the kayak back o...

Recent mail delivered the hard copy of a North Carolina fishing license and trout permit that I'd bought online a week or so earlier...

There's just something about those classic fishing destinations. I leave tomorrow for one such place, Lake Eufuala, Alabama, where I w...

While bass fishing in a small Alabama lake last week, I was certainly surprised to catch a big carp on a crankbait, with the fish hooked i...

   After two productive days of bass fishing in a small lakes (more on that in a later post), the folks from Hobie-Fishing changed t...

When I planned mid-November travels to Alabama, I envisioned a late autumn sort of trip. I anticipated cold mornings, but it looks like I...

My 2014 fish list got a nice kick start during last week's ice fishing adventures in Pennsylvania, with five species tallied. The brig...

All the big bass pictures I've been seeing and sometimes sharing on my facebook fishing page have me really looking forward to a few ...

It should come as no surprise that the mayor of Eufaula, Alabama is a serious bass fisherman. Lake Eufaula, after is, is often dubbed ...

Word has it that the ledge bite is going strong on Pickwick , so I'm Alabama bound this afternoon to see for myself. I'll be divid...

In just a couple of hours I'll be hopping in my truck and heading back toward Alabama to spend a couple of days fishing and doing phot...

We got the week of North Alabama fishing started with blue cats on Wilson Lake. Less water was running through Wilson Dam than guide Brian...

Most autumn travelers associate October with fall color, but in North Alabama , the prettiest color hangs on for a week or two into Novembe...