Rip Cunningham

Rip Cunningham served as Editor-In-Chief of Salt Water Sportsman for 31 years, and stayed on as the Conservation Editor for another 20. He received a number of awards for his conservation work, including the International Game Fish Association’s Conservation Award in 1993, the Federation of Fly Fishers’ Aldo Leopold Conservation Award in 2006, and the Rybovich Lifetime Conservation Award from The Billfish Foundation in 2014. He has also been appointed to state and federal fishery management commissions and councils. Rip was inducted into the International Game Fish Association’s Hall of Fame in 2015. He and his wife, North, live part-time along the coast of Maine and part-time in the woods of Massachusetts, where their seven grandchildren command attention. He uses all of his lifelong experience to leave the world a little bit better place and to have sustainable resources for all to enjoy, especially his grandchildren.