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...

I'm not sure which is worse: that I didn't catch my first fish of 2019 until the about the third week of January or that it took a...

One more update is due before I get back to the favorite fishing destinations countdown because just a few days after returning from Maine...

Well, I went back and updated my fish list, best I could. I could only think of seven additional species from the second half of the year...

The final morning of my recent Florida trip brought tough fishing in a place where the bass action can be very good. After a couple of hour...

There's no denying it. I've been woeful with this blog. The gap since the last post is the longest since I began the Jeff Samsel F...

I've shared in a couple of places that I caught the first snook of my life last week. Actually, I caught of a couple of snook while fi...

My most recent blog post spoke about ice fishing and my odd interest in traveling north to fish during the winter. Still no ice plans in p...

Twice in this year's travels I've gotten opportunities to target and catch localized black bass species that I had never caught (o...

When I spoke with Tim Mann and Chris Holleman about possibly getting together to fish later this spring and they both said they could make...

I've fished mostly on fresh water in recent years, but that's certainly not due to any lack of interest in saltwater fishing. In tru...

This page has been way too quiet, which I don't like. Days have been filled with catch-up efforts on magazine work from so many days on ...

As a boy growing up in Central Florida, I did quite a bit of shiner fishing, but maybe not the kind of fishing that comes to mind when you h...