Jeff Samsel Fishing

For starters I'll should acknowledge that another post about 2016 indeed means that I've not yet been fishing this year. Not good....

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...

North Carolina's Nantahala River accounted for rainbow, brown and brook trout on the list, with all three coming on a cold January d...

We mostly fished for largemouths earlier this week on Lake Eufaula , but I can't say I minded the school of white bass/striper hybrids...

Captain Bryan Branch of Calcasieu Charters felt like we really had to work for the fish we caught on Sunday, and he wasn't overly imp...

Since leaving home five days ago, Nathaniel and I have spent a tremendous amount of time watching other people fish, taking photos of fish...

Autumn on the beautiful Tennessee River in North Alabama . Not long ago, my fall calendar looked oddly barren, with only a couple of thi...

No, I don't intend to cook soft-plastic lures, and I'm not looking at vacuum sealing as the new key to compact lure storage. In tr...

Word I've heard from the Forrest Wood Cup practice field is that fishing on the Red River has been pretty good, in terms of overall bit...

Practice began this morning. Not long ago, in fact. Lots of questions and only a few days to find the best answers. The Forrest Wood Cup be...

Frosted Flakes pro Dave Lefebre doing a little final packing for the Forrest Wood Cup, adding some Terminator spinnerbaits he thinks he m...

The Outdoor Journalist Education Foundation of America recently announced  Nathaniel Samsel , my 15-year-old son, as recipient of the thir...

Nathaniel is still busy editing video clips from our recent trip to Louisiana. The second video from the trip, which you can view above, d...

You usually won't spend many days targeting redfish in the fertile waters around Venice, Louisiana without someone in your group hooki...

I've heard people joke about not hanging rods out of sides of the boat because the fishing was so good, but today that was played out -...

"That's why you come to Louisiana," David Iverson said with a grin as he, Nathaniel and I all battled redfish. We'd found...

The afternoon plan was to sight-fish in the marsh, but heavy winds and very dark skies said otherwise. Instead we fished blind in areas the...

The main course tonight was baked redfish topped with crab meat. Appetizers included fried shrimp and oysters, followed by a little gumbo. ...

Eleven or so hours after leaving Clarkesville we're settled in at Woodland Plantation, about a half hour south of New Orleans, and read...

I'm looking forward to an upcoming return to Cajun Country and a quest for jumbo redfish and speckled trout. It has been a couple of y...