Jeff Samsel Fishing

  When the Bassmaster Elite Series kicks off the 2026 season at Lake Guntersville later this week I’ll be tuned in — eager to see which patt...

  I mentioned over the weekend that I was Alabama bound to do some fishing and photo work from my job. I also mentioned hope that something ...

Lake Guntersville is an iconic bass fishing destination, and the same is true about Weiss Lake for crappie. Fortunate for me, my first fishi...

  Angling adventures during 2025 generally kept me closer to home than normal, with no fishing trips outside the Southeast. Typically I find...

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...

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

I just realized I never reported back about this week's fishing at Lake Guntersville. I posted a few photos on Instagram (jeffsamsel) ...

When Jimmy Mason sends word that the bass are biting at Guntersville and suggests we get together to do some story and photo work, I don...

Although my current writing priorities don't include much coverage of tour-level professional bass fishing, I'm still a fan of the s...

I haven't fished an enormous amount over the past few weeks, but that's about to change in a large way. Plans for the next month o...

The first official days of autumn typically don't seem much different from the final days of summer in North Georgia. September normal...

Apparently, Guntersville schools took an in-service day yesterday. Administrators knew that everyone (including themselves) would want to ...

Rick Morris thinks this year's Classic will be all about making good adjustments to the changing weather and covering water. With t...

Bassmaster Classic competition begins Friday morning. Final practice day for the pros begins about now. If you're even sort of semi-clos...

How will Guntersville bass adjust to major changes in the weather? That question certainly weighs heavily on the minds of Georgia's ...

You can trust that 2008 Bassmaster Classic Champion Alton  Jones is prepared for whatever the weather delivers for this year's Class...

Seems I'll be driving in the rain tomorrow morning. Forecast calls for a 70 percent chance of rain here and a 70 percent chance of rain ...

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 ...

When you do something well enough, it's hard to NOT take it to the next level. Just ask Kay Donaldson, program director of the Alaba...

Chris Lane, B.A.S.S. Photo by Seigo Saito Watching the Bassmaster Classic played out on his adopted home waters of Lake Guntersville  wo...