I'm April Voki and you are listening to Ancard. My chance to speak with some of the most influential people involved in the outdoors today.

Join me as I travel to sit face to face with my guests in their own homes

to learn more about their careers, opinions, history, relationships,

and life both indoors and out.

Sam Lundgren grew up on Widby Island in Washington's Puget Sound. He spent summers working aboard an Alaskan commercial Sam and Saner while studying journalism in college.

After obtaining his master's degree in environmental journalism, his thesis project about the

controversial effects of Steelhead Hatcheries launched his career as an outdoors writer.

Soon he was contributing to the Drake, Gray Sporting Journal, Fly Roden Reel, Stonefly, Bugle,

and the Fly Fish Journal.

Sam spent the last five years as the editor of Backcountry Journal, the Quarterly Membership magazine of Backcountry Hundreds and Anglers, and recently joined the Meed Eater editorial team as a writer and editor with an emphasis on fishing and conservation.

In this episode of Ancord, Sam and I sit down. with an emphasis on fishing and conservation.

In this episode of Ancard, Sam and I sit down to discuss commercial fishing, eating fish with my family until I was two and then we moved to

Wibbe Island, which is about an hour and a half north of Seattle out in Puget Sound.

Oh, okay, so you stayed in Washington. Yep.

And then what's the family fishing story?

I mean, it's so cliche, right?

But did your parents fish?

Yeah, absolutely.

My dad's from Indiana originally, but always has been just a die--hard fisherman he traveled with his friend all the way up to Alaska

driving from Indiana when he was in college and and did commercial fishing for a summer and

Yeah, and then he came back to Indiana met my mom and told her all about Alaska promised he take her up there someday and they ended up

going up there on their honeymoon but they settled in Washington as

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