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Sam Lungren

Sam Lungren

Sam Lungren is MeatEater's Fishing Editor and a former freelance writer/photographer, commercial fisherman, and editor of BHA's Backcountry Journal. Though originally from Whidbey Island, Washington, he's been in Montana for almost a decade and probably isn't leaving—except during steelhead season. Send him an email sam@themeateater.com or follow him @samlungrenmedia.

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Cluck and Chuck: How to Hunt Turkeys by Canoe

Turkey

Cluck and Chuck: How to Hunt Turkeys by Canoe
The first flush of daylight brought forth a cacophony. Rooster pheasants began cackling. A beaver slapped its tail. Sandhill cranes trilled overhead. Mallards squawked back and forth. Cinnamon and green-wing teal joined the chorus, along with widgeon whistling by. Honkers honked. Blackbirds, both...
What’s the World’s Most Difficult Sportfish?

Saltwater

What’s the World’s Most Difficult Sportfish?
Muskie are the fish of ten thousand casts—or is that steelhead? Nothing really runs and jumps and straight-up brawls like a tarpon. Marlin are undoubtedly the marquee, among the largest and fastest, rare, unbelievably powerful, enigmatic. I’m sure we have ol’ Ernie Hemingway to thank for that...
Idaho Passes Bill to Kill 90% of Wolves

Wildlife Management

Idaho Passes Bill to Kill 90% of Wolves
A bill intended to dramatically decrease wolf populations in Idaho passed both chambers of the legislature and now goes before the governor to become law. SB 1211 removes most regulations, seasons, and bag limits for wolf harvest and provides an additional $190,000 per year toward hiring contractors...
A Biologist and a Commercial Fisherman Review 'Seaspiracy' Documentary

Saltwater

A Biologist and a Commercial Fisherman Review 'Seaspiracy' Documentary
About one minute into the recent high-profile docu-drama “Seaspiracy,” the director and host Ali Tabrizi hits us with a motion graphic of a whale taking a watery excretion along with the following statement: “When dolphins and whales return to the surface to breathe, they fertilize tiny marine...
Photos: Texas Anglers Land State Record 10-Foot Bluefin Tuna

Saltwater

Photos: Texas Anglers Land State Record 10-Foot Bluefin Tuna
Most fish are measured in inches. Most fish fights are measured in minutes. But some anglers get the rare gift—or punishment, depending on when you ask—to battle fish better measured in yards for the better part of a day. Troy Lancaster of Port Aransas, Texas, and his friends left Fisherman’s Wharf...
This Proposal Could Change Hunting in Alaska Forever

Public Lands & Waters

This Proposal Could Change Hunting in Alaska Forever
Nearly 60 million acres of federal public lands in Alaska may close to non-resident and the vast majority of resident hunters if a new proposal is approved by the Federal Subsistence Board. The Northwest Arctic Subsistence Regional Advisory Council is seeking to limit harvest of caribou and moose in...
Where Trout Eat Ducks and People Eat Horses

Freshwater

Where Trout Eat Ducks and People Eat Horses
I just rolled my eyes when I saw the lure. Logic and conventional wisdom are no match for my father’s fishing hunches. My irritation belonged elsewhere anyway—with the wind, the miles of unproductive lakeshore, and the omnipresent gnats trying to slurp all the liquid from my eyeballs. At 11 p.m. in...
Can You Catch Fish in the Suez Canal?

Saltwater

Can You Catch Fish in the Suez Canal?
The giant container ship “Ever Given” was stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for nearly a week, providing endless fodder for news outlets and meme creators. But the piscatorially-minded among us had only one question on our collective minds during this debacle: If we were stuck on a 1,300-foot-long...
Best Trout Fishing Lures, Flies, and Baits

Fishing

Best Trout Fishing Lures, Flies, and Baits
Trout are inarguably among the most popular game fish family worldwide, if not the most popular. Perhaps one reason for that fondness among anglers is the myriad lures, flies, baits, and techniques that can be employed in pursuit of these fish. There are the standard standbys that will likely work...
The 6 Rods You Need to Catch Every American Fish

Freshwater

The 6 Rods You Need to Catch Every American Fish
I have friends who just have "their fishing rod," which ends up in applications from bluegill to coho salmon. I know other folks who might not be able to quantify their collection within a confidence interval of 100 (I'm looking at you, Cermele). Unless you're some sort of diehard panfish purist...