David Mangum likes tarpon. So much so that he built himself a paraglider to scout new locations. And so much that he deploys a skull for a buoy to mess with interloping boats. Keep your distance, he’s earned that spot. 120 Days from Felt Soul Media and YETI succinctly captures the dedication it takes to live the poon-fiend dream.
F3T 2017 detonates this Saturday, Jan. 21, in Denver. 120 Days will be there.
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.