Jeff Samsel Fishing

The final morning of my recent Florida trip brought tough fishing in a place where the bass action can be very good. After a couple of hour...

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...

For starters I must acknowledge that the pond trip I'm reporting was more than a week ago. I've fallen woefully behind with postin...

I awoke a little later than normal this morning, and Nathaniel's truck was already gone. He had left just before daylight to meet a fr...

I'm out of sequence with reports from recent fishing days because I got behind on blog posts, but a few days ago, Asher and I enjoyed ...

I'm not sure what Nathaniel and Caleb did with the first 8 1/2 hours of this year, but sometime around 8:30 this morning, they tallied...

Birthdays and fishing often go together around my house, as I fairly commonly take my children to a nearby pond for a while on their birth...

Nathaniel's johnboat needed to get back to the side of the pond, where it would be handy for quick outings, and he and I both had time...

Today I'm trading 12-inch worms for 1/32-ounce hair jigs, 50-pound braid for 4-pound Nanofil, and a Revo Beast and heavy baitcaster...

OK. We're not in Ohio to fish. We're here so Nathaniel can teach and perform at a dulcimer festival. But, hey, it never hurts to t...

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...

Well, I guess need to work on my tying mechanics. The fish made pretty quick work of an Ugly Bug yesterday. The good news is that the dam...

The primary purpose of today's pond visit was to slide out in the canoe and grab a few jigs and bobbers we left hanging in trees and b...

TJ Stallings with a Rollin' Runner slab. I thought I was casting for bass when I picked up my baitcaster and made a long cast with a...

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 ...

Looking at photos from my last few days in the creek, I can barely tell one day from another. It hasn't been intentional, but it seems...

Nathaniel says he got the present when he took his younger brother Asher on a bass fishing outing for Asher's birthday. In truth the o...

"See, Roscoe. That's why we want you to stay in the boat," Nathaniel said in a parent-like tone to the lizard that had opted...

Fall is a transition time. How many times have you heard that? It gets said a lot because for many kinds of fish it is true. But what ex...

The beaver pond bass left Nathaniel and me baffled today. We don't know where they went. I'm never that amazed to not catch fish -...