I'm April Vokey and you're listening to Ancard. My chance to speak with some of the most influential people involved in the fishing world 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 on and off the water.

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You may know Jerry French better than you think you do. As co-owner of Olympic Peninsula Skagit Tactics or

OPST for short, Jerry French and Ed Ward are the originators of the

intruder fly as well as some of the driving forces behind Skagit casting.

In this two-part podcast, I meet with Jerry at his home on Camano Island

to see if I can learn a little more about this very private man. Well, I was born in Ventura, California. I was adopted at birth to Jackie Williams at the time and Jerry Williams, my namesake, Jerry Wesley Williams, and

my mom quickly divorced Jerry and being the little rambunctious soul that she was,

she hooked up with some guy that was this crazy outdoor cowboy and we moved to Alaska.

And we lived like the wilderness family in Houston Alaska from the time I was

four until I was ten and it was truly living off the land kind of we lived in

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