Jeff Samsel Fishing

It happens every year. Usually about this time. Sometimes sooner. I see posts from friends about days spent on ice-covered lakes or read a...

The St. Paul Ice Show (which is a big one) was last weekend, and friends from the North and the West are starting to post pictures of lake...

It's official: I'm ice equipped. With the recent purchase of an auger, a few accessories like a scoop and bait pucks, and even a ...

Spring is officially about a week away, but I'm glad to say that signs of the changing season are plentiful. A month ago today I was f...

Did using an ice rod provide any real advantage? No. If the boat was still so my tiny jig went straight down I could pick up the bait a bi...

I met Doug Sikora at a writer event at Lake Chickamauga last summer. He was there on behalf of Bobby Garland Crappie Baits . I was there t...

Or first daffodil of 2015 opened yesterday, and several other will follow soon. Today brought beautiful weather for Little League tryouts,...

Guide Donald Cranor with a pretty cutthroat, which was part of Norfork River trout slam (brown, rainbow, brook, cutthroat) and species No...

Tungsten has been a buzzword in the bass world for several years and in the ice fishing for the past few years; however, the last couple o...

    It's hard for me to believe that three days have already passed, but indeed we put a wrap on the second edition of Erie Ice C...

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...

My next two fishing trips are to Pennsylvania to ice fish for crappie and various other species and to Missouri to fish for trout on Lake Ta...

Ice cover in the Presque Isle Bay area is getting thicker all the time. Dave Lefebre photo. Dave Lefebre with a big yellow perch cau...

Yesterday, I recapped half a dozen specific favorite fish from 2014, so today I thought I'd highlight a few of my favorite days on the...

Toward the end of the year I always like looking back at favorite fishing trips, days on the water and specific fish. For the moment, I'...

December fishing on the Nantahala River. Photo by Asher Samsel. Duluth Trading Company proposed a Chill Challenge -- a test of one of t...

As much as I like playing the coaxing game and trying to figure out what combination of lifts and twitches will make a fish bite, I like i...

Spent a mighty fun day today catching bluegills and crappie with Jeff Sundin and Jon Thelen of Lindy Fishing. We caught a lot of fish, an...

Well. The first leg went smoothly. Ninety-six miles from home to ATL, plus parking, check-in and security, and as of now flight number one a...

Like most things, fishing has it's subgroups, and many anglers I spend time with are very specialized in their interests. Some dedicat...