Jeff Samsel Fishing

"That's what we want!" Capt. Brett Mitchell said as one of his catfish rods bowed hard. I scrambled to the rod and pried it ou...

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...

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

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 ...

Between living in Georgia and being a big catfish fan, it would seem like I should have some experience fishing jugs for catfish. Nope. Un...

  Tennessee River Monsters has been on a great bite this week, with 10 cats over 40 pounds in four days. Photo courtesy of Tennessee R...

My next two fishing adventures will take me in totally different directions, but neither is terribly far from home. The biggest common den...

We got the week of North Alabama fishing started with blue cats on Wilson Lake. Less water was running through Wilson Dam than guide Brian...

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...

When I finished 2011 with a little largemouth from a pond near home, I sort of wondered what my first fish 0f 2012 would be. Turns out it wa...