Jeff Samsel Fishing

Eli and I did manage to catch a bass yesterday afternoon, but that didn't really matter. More significantly, we heard bullfrogs croaki...

I'm out of sequence with reports from recent fishing days because I got behind on blog posts, but a few days ago, Asher and I enjoyed ...

With the wind blowing up the lake, Nathaniel decided to get his rowing out of the way first, rowing to a downlake spot he wanted to invest...

Eli, 5, running the boat for his brother Asher and me. Eli enjoys to going fishing. There's no doubt about that. However, I sort of ...

Birthdays and fishing often go together around my house, as I fairly commonly take my children to a nearby pond for a while on their birth...

We really did have to pull our fish up through holes a hole in the ice. Granted, we weren't standing on the ice, but were in Nathani...

A couple of months ago Nathaniel and I moved his johnboat from the banks of the beaver pond where it normally resides to another pond on the...

No amazing deals on the pond today, and the  fish didn't even bite especially well. We managed a few, though, and with or without them...

It's tough for Nathaniel and me to resist a quick trip to the pond on a nice afternoon, and we rarely regret the decision to go. Re...

It took two casts from the bank to confirm that 3-inch YUM Money Craw nose hooked on a 2/O Daiichi Bleeding Bait Circle Hook would catch...

  Nathaniel and I realized on Saturday that with the pickup truck gone, I'm going to have to get some sort of trailer if he and I a...

Nathaniel had been hoping to find a johnboat that he could afford to buy, and his siblings had even been praying that he would find such a b...