Jeff Samsel Fishing

While I was in South Carolina last week, I got a chance to sample the offerings of a new fishing club that is being developed on property ...

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 was mostly at the beach to capture coastal scenes and for the sake of finding proper backdrops for some needed lure photos, but of cour...

Time I've spent on the Santee Cooper Lakes spreads across three decades, going back to college days, and I've enjoyed dozens of m...

I'll just warn you up front that if someone who has visited Lake Jocassee tries to tell you about the lake, it's going to sound li...

Given yesterday's low of 9, a current temperature of 18 and more of the same forecast for the rest of this week, I can't help thin...

My first Santee Cooper Country adventure was nearly three decades ago with a college buddy, and I remember well my first Santee fish, a ...

Do you have favorite fish strikes etched in your mind - ones you remember as if they occurred 10 minutes ago? One of my favorites recently c...

Terry Madewell just held tight when I scurried to get the first catfish bite of the morning. Same as he did when he first introduced me ...

With plans to travel to Black's Camp on Lake Moultrie today, I can't help but think about the first cast I ever made into the Santee...

"I've never seen that before." I'm not sure how many times Bruce Stanton and I said that or something like it today, a...

Deadwood, South Dakota; Buffalo, New York; El Salto, Mexico, Bartow, Florida... OK. I haven't fished everywhere. It sort of feels l...

Yesterday's swing to the Chattooga National Wild & Scenic River yielded Nos. 19 and 20 for my 2014 Species List. No. 19 was a rede...

And so we begin anew. New friends, new places, new fishing adventures and almost certainly a nice dose of time enjoyed with old friends on...

The video below tells you all you need to know, so I won't waste words explaining, but I wanted to pass along word about improved trou...

From Ellicott Rock, where the Chattooga River exits North Carolina, to the mouth of the Savannah River, where the big river meets the Atla...