Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(
Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.
As if you didn’t have enough to peruse online already, you can now add Sage to the mega list. Sage Manufacturing officially joined the blog masses today. The site looks fresh and clean, and we’re expecting to see more in the way of original, compelling content down the road. For now you can read about…
With the Standard & Poor downgrading America’s credit rating by a notch last Friday, the subsequent stock market crash has left many a broker in face clutching paralysis.
Can’t get enough drakes? Idaho just got hit with a late-season flock of the big brown ones. Check out the action.
WASHINGTON—Kudos to the United States Congress for finally passing a law that did not result in a massive duck die-off.
French artist Christo, famous for draping sheets around and over everything from islands to large buildings such as the German Reichstag, in Berlin, has had his bobby pins and sewing machines set on Colorado’s Arkansas River for more than 16 years. His bitchin’ plan involves suspending shiny fabric atop more than 40 miles of the…
In this totally NSFW K-Swiss promo, Kenny Powers explains the importance of doing shit other sports companies are too pussy to even dream of. We’re waiting to see whether or not wading boot manufacturers will heed the call.
When invasive species proliferate our waters and attack native habitat your best bet is to fight back… with a fork. Mother Nature Network presents “9 weird fish you should be eating”—nonnative gnarlers that include Asian carp, shore crab, mitten crab, lionfish, tilapia, and rusty crawfish. And as for swamp eel? It’s what’s for dinner.
In the unlikely event you missed it, an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured over the holiday weekend spilling 42,000 gallons of crude into the Yellowstone River, 10 miles west of Billings. Initial findings had the oil traveling 10 miles down river, but newer reports show the slick extending more than 150 miles, pushing toward North Dakota.
ASHLAND—Oregon-based outfitter Ken Morrish’s first job involved working as a salmon tender in Alaska’s Bristol Bay—that was 25 years ago. Here Morrish argues against the proposed Pebble Mine project, an environmental threat with the potential to demolish a fishery and out-of-state jobs.
What do you get when you mix safe sex with with one of flyfishing’s most voracious freshwater predators? Why the Durex condom pike streamer, of course. We’re currently researching a similarly slick carp version for the South Platte.
We’ve spent a lifetime searching for The One and always hoped she might look something like Scarlett. But thanks to Sage we’ve learned it’s instead a fly rod. Shattered dreams? Meh. We should have known better.
Just in time for BBQ season, Brooklyn’s OG hip-hop innovators meet DJ A-Dog mix-a-thon in “The Beastie Boys All Remixed Up”. The free download combines blends of “Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun” over “Day n Nite” and “Root Down” over “Bring the Pain” with interviews and skits from “Hot Sauce Committee Part Two”,…
For all you Scott heads out there. Felt Soul Media takes us inside the guts of Scott Fly Rods’ Montrose, CO, laboratories for a made in America glimpse at the engineering process and the passionate minds behind their designs.
Despite Anthony Weiner’s over-amped libido and resignation in the wake of a “sexting” scandal, the New York congressman’s pro-environment record was commendable, according to political pundits. For instance, he stood against attempts to amend the Endangered Species Act, while scoring a 95 on the League of Conservation Voters scorecard early in his career, and has…
While Whistler’s mainstay draws include hiking, biking, and “shredding the gnar”/local bar scene, British Columbia’s mega ski resort also offers a myriad of underrated fishing opportunities—from stillwaters to steelheading. This recent article from The Pique “The Ultimate Whistler Fish Story” delivers a detailed look at a community rooted in angling adventure, dating back to the…
The search for Bigfoot continues to be as daunting as the Vancouver Canucks bid for the elusive Stanley Cup. (No thanks to Boston….) But we’re getting closer. In June 2008, Caddis Fly shop owner Chris Daughters floated Oregon’s McKenzie River, where video footage from that trip depicts a Sasquatch-like beast lurking in the bushes. This Sunday, Daughters and…
From steelhead to permit and everything in between, we hope your year’s about to get as good as the one depicted in this little Vimeo gem making the interweb rounds.
TENNESSEE—Say what you want about hatchery trout—inbred, three-eyed, lackluster competition for wild fish populations—in states such as Tennessee, they’re a staple. With new federal budget cuts coming down the pipe, national fish hatcheries run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stand to lose $6.3 million related to fish hatchery mitigation operations. Six of…
Those seeking legal travel to Cuba’s best flyfishing waters have been given a glimmer of hope thanks to a loosening of people-to-people tour regulations recently published by the U.S. Treasury Department. People-to-people contacts, designed for educational purposes to bring regular Cubans and Americans together, were approved in 1999 under the Clinton administration. They disappeared…
If you’re a fan of overpriced chocolate bars, camping, and the vino, you’ll be stoked to learn Clif Bar has gone alcoholic. A division of the company grows and sources grapes in Napa Valley and produces a line of red and white wines under the Clif Family Winery handle. According to a recent Outside…
Steelheading in Smithers was a little different fourteen years ago than it is today. For starters, there were very few spey rods. Also, a hotel in town was about $80—a week. But then, as now, as always, which river you fished was sometimes decided by the weather. We’d hauled a skiff all the way from…
A little drift boat tobogganning and ultra early Box Canyon love from your friends at the TroutHunter.
Since you will likely be wiped off Earth tomorrow, May 21 being Doomsday and all, let’s take today to fish. Who’s in??
American Rivers recently chose Pennsyltucky’s Susquehanna River (also coursing through parts of NY and Maryland) as its “America’s Most Endangered Rivers Of 2011” poster child. The river, once renowned for its prime smallmouth fishing flowing through Bob Clouser’s backyard has, over the last ten years, been reduced by ag runoff and other environmental cancers.…
Some Spring Steel porn from the good peops at Country Pleasures fly shop. With 140 percent+ snowpack towering over them thar hills, we’re going to need a collection of similarly slutty vids to maintain wood through the run-off. Keep sending please.
With so many hooligans up to their rogue fishing shenanigans, it’s amazing the Brits have time to focus on pressing matters such as making jelly molds and tea time. But nevermind all that, stealthy water baliffs are always up to the challenges posed by uncouth youth.
Chilean officials in the city of Coyhaique are scheduled to vote on HidroAysen’s controversial Patagonia power project today. Approval would give stakeholders an environmental license for what’s designed to be Chile’s biggest power plant.