Jeff Samsel Fishing

Nathaniel, Asher and I had a big time catching trout in the North Carolina mountains last week. With photos being our main objective, we w...

Flowers pictured on a fishing blog mean exactly what you might guess: I haven't been fishing enough. The blooms that are getting ever ...

Rain is falling steadily outside my North Georgia home, as it did most of yesterday and is forecast to do all of today and part of tomorrow....

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...

I've been completely happy with my Subaru Outback since I got it in June and have traveled enough to give its ride and useful space a ...

Snowy bank of Big Wilson Creek in Western North Carolina. Photo by Tim Mead I guess I can't say the snow was a total surprise. The f...

It had been far too long since Nathanial, Asher and I had spent a full day together trout fishing, so our recent day of work and play on N...

I tried to pick a single favorite fish from 2015, but the best I could do was to narrow it to two. Each had unique appeals, and I can...

I'm no more fond of delays than the next guy, but when you're talking about delaying the harvest of trout for half a year, I'm...

Having noticed that I'd let a broad-shouldered trout get the best of me and break off my dropper fly, Chetola Lodge guide Dustin Coff...

If you target trout in a place where the fish sometimes gain some measure of maturity, I'm guessing you can relate. There's just s...

Despite MANY big trout in the Boone Fork run where I enjoyed the opportunity to fish yesterday, including a few browns and rainbows that I...

Today's High Country fishing plan had been to float the South Fork of the New River and flyfish for smallmouth bass. Then came the ra...

I'll admit it. I mostly stopped at the Linville River to look at the falls, with thought that I might hike down into the gorge to fish ...

National Boating & Fishing Week is going on right now. It began with the weekend and continues through next weekend. With that I mind,...

Catching fish is a primary objective on any fishing trip, but when it's a trout trip, for me at least, the day can be as much about wh...

Asher and I ended up fishing a split shift on the pond yesterday. We originally only planned to fish a couple of hours because of a mid-af...

Yesterday's biggest trout, a pretty Wilson Creek rainbow. Photo by Asher Samsel Exploration often involves more than wading up a new...

Asher and I getting rigged on a trout outing a couple of months ago. I suppose you could call Monday a practice day. Asher and I have...

December fishing on the Nantahala River. Photo by Asher Samsel. Duluth Trading Company proposed a Chill Challenge -- a test of one of t...