I'm April Voki and you are listening to Anckered. 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.

Whitney Gold is a spay-casting instructor and a six-time spay-arama casting champion.

She is a full-time fishing guide who started guiding in Alaska before adding Oregon, California, and Montana to her resume.

This winter, Whitney and I met up for lunch in Montana, but decided to sit down for a last-minute

podcast.

In this episode of Ancard, Whitney and I talk about her upbringing,

her introduction to the fly fishing industry, spaycasting, and trout fishing in Montana.

I was born in London, England.

Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

I lived there until I was two, so I can't really say I was from England.

Are your parents English?

No, no, my mom and dad. My dad grew up in upstate New York and my

mom grew up in North Dakota Grand Forks and so they were bringing up three kids at

the time. My younger brother hadn't been born and my dad had been transferred to London and he was

working for a company out of a steel company out of Niagara Falls where my brothers were born.

Okay, so where did you guys come when you came back to the US? They moved directly to Connecticut. So they were, yeah, so I grew up in Connecticut and with a focus my dad worked in New York City and my mom worked in Hartford so they commuted in two hours in each direction.

Okay, what is Connecticut known for? You have to excuse my ignorance here.

What is Connecticut?

I always knew it as a suitcase community.

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