In November 2011, Joey Maxim beat death. Just barely. The car crash collapsed his lungs and pinched his spine, leaving him unresponsive to paramedics at the scene. His doctors said if Joey made it, he wouldn’t walk or talk the same ever again. In Mend, a Kickstarter film project from TwoFisted Heart Productions and Sharptail Media, Maxim finds flyfishing after his accident—and with it, a way to live.

 

Tom Bie
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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.

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