Jeff Samsel Fishing

  I failed to get out prior to last weekend’s winter storm, so with another storm forecast for this weekend, I didn’t want that to happen ag...

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 not that I prefer awful weather. I like 75 degrees and sunshine as much as the next guy. However, I cannot deny that I find a str...

When I planned mid-November travels to Alabama, I envisioned a late autumn sort of trip. I anticipated cold mornings, but it looks like I...

A part of me doesn't like the notion of letting a beard grow at this particular time. The very fact that "No-Shave November"...

Without much question, a jigging spoon ranks one of the best lures made for winter fishing, and it produces pretty much every kind of fis...

I won't claim that Nathaniel and I mastered the fish at the Nantahala yesterday. We only landed three trout. However, I lost two othe...

One challenge brought by winter is that game fish of various sorts use deeper water overall than they do during the spring or the fall, an...