Sam Seamster

For All Your Outdoor Needs Bucks & Bass owners Bradley Taylor, left, and Jamie Henderson grew up hunting, fishing and enjoying the outdoors. Story and photos by Sam Seamster Being an avid outdoorsman, I find myself drawn to establishments that sell any type of outdoor products. These places provide me an opportunity to check out the newest hunting and fishing ...

A Time of Transition Story and photos by Sam Seamster Fall is one of my favorite times of the year to fish. The fish are starting to feed up for winter, the temperatures are cooler, and the boat traffic has slowed down as people are winding down from summer watercraft activities. Fishing the Summer Pattern All during summer, the water ...

Story and photos by Sam Seamster If you are like me, you get excited to see a new business come to the area, especially if it deals with boats and other watercraft. I always get a thrill out of admiring new boats, even if it is not a watercraft that I would purchase myself. Over the past few months, as ...

Story and photos by Sam Seamster Greetings to all my fellow fishermen. I hope you all have had a chance to get out on the lake and do some fishing during the holidays. I certainly have had some good fishing trips over the past month or so, which brings me to the title of this article. Vertical jigging is a ...

Story and photos by Sam Seamster I hope you’ve had successful fishing over the past couple of months. This time of the year is a really great time to be fishing. As the water cools down, the fishing gets hotter. A few weeks ago, I ran into Peter Berry, the owner of Hyco Lake Magazine, at the boat ramp. As ...

Story and photos by Sam Seamster When thinking about casting a fishing rod, most folks don’t consider the dynamics. So, what constitutes a good cast? To some, that would be not hooking themselves in the head or not tangling the line. To others it could be skipping a lure way back under an overhanging bush. All of these would be ...

A Cool Place to Be By Sam Seamster As we approach the hot days of the summer months, we find that fishing has been rapidly changing over the past few weeks. Water temperatures in the shallows are starting to rise to an uncomfortable level for bass and crappie. As that happens, fish begin to stage in deeper areas of the ...

A Time to Make Memories Story and photos by Sam Seamster I was about seven when my dad and granddad took me along on one of their fishing trips. I can still remember how excited I was to go to a new pond they had found. As the old green aluminum boat slid through the tall grass into the edge ...