Jeff Samsel Fishing

A few taps of my jig and a snap of my wrist connected me with a solid bluegill, which had a bit of a surprise element. Catching a bluegill i...

It's hard for me to not get excited about Lake Pymatuning as I write this because I'll be visiting there in a little more than a ...

With no late-winter ice trips or spring headstart trips to the coast having occurred through March, my fish species catch list for this year...

Two species on the catch list two days from the end of January is just plain pitiful and means that I haven't been fishing nearly enou...

If you glance at this page from time to time, you likely know that last summer I spent most of a month on the road with one of my sons, As...

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...

Most fishermen know that it happens from time to time. A little mess spills out of the wrong end of the fish, and when the fish flops, the...

Yesterday's plan included probing deep-water brush for crappie and bluegills and drifting the canal with cut bait for blue cats in the c...

When asked what I like to fish for or the fish species I write about, my normal answer is that I fish for everything that swims. I suppose...

Even when it's 5 degrees, the wind is blowing 20 miles per hour and the fish are doing a lot of pondering before deciding to bite, I lov...

Birthdays often are fishing days in Samsel-land, and today was no exception. Time didn't allow for a very long outing, but in truth a ...

Summer has been slow to fully set in this year, and we've enjoyed quite a bit of surprisingly spring-like weather for this late in Jun...