Jeff Samsel Fishing

Tumbleweed, to me, has always been restricted to cowboy music and Western movies. In Utah, tumbleweed is real, and at Lake Powell, it play...

Today's ice adventure on Presque Isle Bay allowed me to add two new 2015 species, bringing the tally seven. I actually caught four kin...

The sun hadn't fully broken the horizon on morning one of my recent Rend Lake trip when my species tally for 2014 grew. My first whit...

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

Nathaniel and I are not big fish counters, especially when the bite is good and our focus is simply on having fun catching the fish. Howev...

Yesterday was a travel day, with a big bird carrying me from Atlanta to Pittsburgh. This morning, I'm an hour and half north of Pittsbur...

For no reason other than fun and curiosity, I decided that this year I would keep try to keep track of all the different species of fish I c...