Jeff Samsel Fishing

shiner catch Bass bait! I won’t claim the thought didn’t go through my mind. When I caught a little shiner while bream fishing with my son a...

Asher has been pounding the pond this week. For the past couple of days, he's gotten to spend a couple of afternoon hours per day walk...

"Hey. You're fishing for bass, and I'm fishing for bream," Nathaniel observed as we worked our along a pond bank, with m...

Nathaniel's johnboat needed to get back to the side of the pond, where it would be handy for quick outings, and he and I both had time...

I still don't know how it happened. I've spent hundreds of hours in canoes, and the only two other times I ever flipped were in ri...

OK. We're not in Ohio to fish. We're here so Nathaniel can teach and perform at a dulcimer festival. But, hey, it never hurts to t...

Kenneth sheds. In fact, he sheds a lot. So when he got a bath yesterday, I got a big pile of black dog hair. If it turns out to be good ji...

Three of my children (Asher, 9; Autumn, 7 and Eli, 5) often go with my wife for an hour or two of afternoon pond play, usually with swimmi...

Word has it spring sprang early this afternoon. While my friends to the north remain unconvinced, (something about a foot and a half of ic...

The primary purpose of today's pond visit was to slide out in the canoe and grab a few jigs and bobbers we left hanging in trees and b...

Rain is coming tomorrow, followed by more cold, but this afternoon warmed up nicely and we had a little time, so it was a good afternoon t...

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...

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...

High, muddy water from yesterday's all-day rain, 38-degree air, and northwest winds blowing 20 and gusting higher all suggested that t...

It seemed like a good plan. Nathaniel wanted to bring his boat back to the pond-side spot where he most commonly keeps it, and we had a few...