Most people think he earned his title as “Dean of the Green” through years of hard work untangling knots, putting up with grumpy clients, and figuring out how to get fish in the boat when others failed. The truth is that the label came as a sideways compliment from Steve Schmidt, his partner at Western Rivers
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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.