Jeff Samsel Fishing

My phone tells me it's 21 degrees outside my house, and yesterday's rain knocked off many of our late-clinging leaves. Seemingly...

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...

Autumn's bedroom got some new décor yesterday. Not typical décor for an 8-year-old girl and her 2-year-old sister, but a style that su...

When I planned mid-November travels to Alabama, I envisioned a late autumn sort of trip. I anticipated cold mornings, but it looks like I...

It seems I might have told Autumn a story on her eighth birthday. You see, I told her she had caught a warmouth, a species she'd never...

A beautiful autumn morning on Big Snowbird Creek in North Carolina's Graham County. Having spent most of last week in the mountains...

A good thing happened while I was sleeping last night. October arrived. I guess there's nothing really that different about Sept. ...

Three of my children (Asher, 9; Autumn, 7 and Eli, 5) often go with my wife for an hour or two of afternoon pond play, usually with swimmi...

Rain is coming tomorrow, followed by more cold, but this afternoon warmed up nicely and we had a little time, so it was a good afternoon t...

When I consider some of my favorite fishing days from the year that's about to depart, they seem to have something in common. I just ...

"Can I make a bait, Dad?" My 7-year-old artist daughter Autumn keeps asking. I haven't let her loose with the vice and threa...

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

Autumn, 6, got called to camera duty yesterday evening when the fish that slurped down my Rebel Crickhopper Popper turned out to be far b...

The plan had been that Asher and I would make a lap or two around the pond in the canoe while Autumn and Eli played at the beach with my w...

October must be better than November at public relations campaigns. Most North Georgia travelers seemingly think that fall begins Oct. 1 a...

Finding a leaf-littering roof upon returning from the road and seeing a 10-day forecast with no highs over 80 both suggest that fall really ...