Sam Stepanoff preparing to get in a few casts for the Chignik’s elusive Steelhead. A fellow birder, Sam helped confirm Juncos as new to The Lake and certain finches as previously uncommon or rare. The 13-apartment nesting box he made was often filled to capacity with Tree Swallows. As a subsistence angler, Sam was surely responsible for one of the greatest non-commercial distributions of salmon in North America – beach seining, smoking and canning the Chignik’s wonderful Sockeyes and sending the jarred product off to friends and family not lucky enough to live along the banks of a great salmon river. He is missed. (February 3, 2017)
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