Jeff Samsel Fishing

Provo River brown trout In my most recent post, I looked back on a cross-country fishing/blogging trek I did with one of my boys 11 years ag...

Painting a pair of coasters was part of an evening event my wife and I recently attended. When I pick up a paintbrush, markers or other art ...

I knew pickings might be slim. While some trout can be found year-round in the river section I chose to hit, it’s pretty stocking dependent,...

  Something just doesn’t seem right when we get well into January and I realize that I have not yet caught a fish in the new year. Not wanti...

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'll just warn you up front that if someone who has visited Lake Jocassee tries to tell you about the lake, it's going to sound li...

Remnants from overnight rains and an approaching bigger system caused me to question my idea of a travel detour to the Little Red River on...

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...

We couldn't have scripted it better for what we wanted to do. Late winter is prime time for big browns on Arkansas' White River, a...

Asher and I are in full packing mode because tomorrow we leave on this summer's biggest adventure. We're pointing the car north th...

Long drive today, but that's OK. Arkansas' White & Norfork rivers are at the other end, and three days on these fabulous trout...

You could say that Asher and I were very efficient yesterday. We managed a "slam" of the trout species that are normally found ...

I tried to pick a single favorite fish from 2015, but the best I could do was to narrow it to two. Each had unique appeals, and I can...

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 rain began a little after 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24. I remember because Asher and I were at the Little League fields, anticipating...

For starters, I should remind all that the BEST place to follow the Rebel Trout Trek is at rebellures.com . I'm filing a blog post the...

If you target trout in a place where the fish sometimes gain some measure of maturity, I'm guessing you can relate. There's just s...

I'll admit it. I mostly stopped at the Linville River to look at the falls, with thought that I might hike down into the gorge to fish ...

Not represented in this photo are about 50 big smallmouths caught and released on the same day! As of a yesterday, a little past luncht...

The brown trout I'd just landed was neither strikingly colorful nor large. It was a definite stocker, and had no noteworthy traits lik...