Saber-toothed salmon of the Miocene to Pliocene (13 to 4 million years ago) are making a modern day comeback with the help of 3-D drawings based on fossils found in the Pacific Northwest. Sockeye’s fifth cousin several generations removed measured more than 6 feet long and is named for its mighty teeth—likely used to gnaw…
DetailsSaber-toothed salmon of the Miocene to Pliocene (13 to 4 million years ago) are making a modern day comeback with the help of 3-D drawings based on fossils found in the Pacific Northwest. Sockeye’s fifth cousin several generations removed measured more than 6 feet long and is named for its mighty teeth—likely used to gnaw…
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Your winners for Trouts Fly Fishing and The Drake’s totally-not-rigged “Year in Photos” contest have been selected. This shot of Iron Sheik and James Prosek did not score: But ones like this wintry Colorado pillow-scape did: We’d like to thank everyone who submitted images and joined the voting community. We had a lot of fun…
DetailsYour winners for Trouts Fly Fishing and The Drake’s totally-not-rigged “Year in Photos” contest have been selected. This shot of Iron Sheik and James Prosek did not score: But ones like this wintry Colorado pillow-scape did: We’d like to thank everyone who submitted images and joined the voting community. We had a lot of fun…
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On a barren high-desert lake a flats skiff materializes like a mirage. Fish are all encased in gold. Bearded dudes with fly rods are gods. Music hums in the distance. And it’s awesome because, shit, it’s Carlos Santana! Everything suddenly makes perfect sense… “listen how it goes, my rhythm…” Oye como va. It’s all about…
DetailsOn a barren high-desert lake a flats skiff materializes like a mirage. Fish are all encased in gold. Bearded dudes with fly rods are gods. Music hums in the distance. And it’s awesome because, shit, it’s Carlos Santana! Everything suddenly makes perfect sense… “listen how it goes, my rhythm…” Oye como va. It’s all about…
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Jose Wejebe, who hosted Spanish Fly, a saltwater fishing show on the Outdoor Channel and formerly ESPN, died two years ago when his kit plane plummeted into a field shortly after take-off from Florida’s Everglades Airpark. In celebration of his life, as well as what would have been an upcoming birthday on January 18, friends…
DetailsJose Wejebe, who hosted Spanish Fly, a saltwater fishing show on the Outdoor Channel and formerly ESPN, died two years ago when his kit plane plummeted into a field shortly after take-off from Florida’s Everglades Airpark. In celebration of his life, as well as what would have been an upcoming birthday on January 18, friends…
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One guide and a 320-day mission to fish. Capt. Jako Lucas gets down with GTs, Atlantics, and taimen in this full-bore edit. Watch it “After the highly successful and acclaimed Gangsters of the flats and Aqua Hulk short films which won various awards… Cpt Jack Films transports you yet again to three very different and…
DetailsOne guide and a 320-day mission to fish. Capt. Jako Lucas gets down with GTs, Atlantics, and taimen in this full-bore edit. Watch it “After the highly successful and acclaimed Gangsters of the flats and Aqua Hulk short films which won various awards… Cpt Jack Films transports you yet again to three very different and…
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Caspian terns—the Steven Seagals of gulls—are currently ranked “the single most significant (per capita) avian predator” on juvenile steelhead migrating from the Snake River basin and the upper Columbia. “Predation rate estimates based on PIT tag recoveries on Caspian tern colonies indicated that impacts were again highest on upper Columbia River steelhead smolts (14.9 percent depredated…
DetailsCaspian terns—the Steven Seagals of gulls—are currently ranked “the single most significant (per capita) avian predator” on juvenile steelhead migrating from the Snake River basin and the upper Columbia. “Predation rate estimates based on PIT tag recoveries on Caspian tern colonies indicated that impacts were again highest on upper Columbia River steelhead smolts (14.9 percent depredated…
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Steelhead escapement is defined by the number of fish that survive commercial and recreational fisheries to reach their spawning grounds. This eye-opening infographic for Washington State shows projected goals in relation to actual returns and paints a sobering picture of how wild steelhead numbers stand on a selection of rivers—including the Hoh, Wind, Queets, and…
DetailsSteelhead escapement is defined by the number of fish that survive commercial and recreational fisheries to reach their spawning grounds. This eye-opening infographic for Washington State shows projected goals in relation to actual returns and paints a sobering picture of how wild steelhead numbers stand on a selection of rivers—including the Hoh, Wind, Queets, and…
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Finalists for “Your Year in Photos” photography contest presented by Trouts Fly Fishing and The Drake have been selected and voting is underway. The swag giveaway runs through December, with a winner slated to be announced in Jan. “We had a ton of great entries and a lot of creative and thoughtful images—a big thank…
DetailsFinalists for “Your Year in Photos” photography contest presented by Trouts Fly Fishing and The Drake have been selected and voting is underway. The swag giveaway runs through December, with a winner slated to be announced in Jan. “We had a ton of great entries and a lot of creative and thoughtful images—a big thank…
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‘Tis the season for The Drake’s annual Hot Holiday Gift Guide—A full assortment of special selections to wow the flyfisher in your family. 1) Tenkara® Tenkara is the simple Japanese method of flyfishing where only a rod, line, and fly are used. Be the first to buy the whole franchise, including Tenkara rod manufacturing facility,…
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What we know about Wyoming: Nuking winds, devoid of humans, and arctic-like winters. It’s a real shame no fish live there either. Despite the blatant false-advertising, this timelapse collection is cool. Watch it Via ghostkollective.com: “It was one hell of a journey during the fourteen months making Wyoming Wildscapes II, my second and final Wyoming…
DetailsWhat we know about Wyoming: Nuking winds, devoid of humans, and arctic-like winters. It’s a real shame no fish live there either. Despite the blatant false-advertising, this timelapse collection is cool. Watch it Via ghostkollective.com: “It was one hell of a journey during the fourteen months making Wyoming Wildscapes II, my second and final Wyoming…
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Dust off the Holgas, dump the hard drives, do your best Terry Richardson, and delivereth your mind-blowing fishing images for a chance to win swag. As 2013 comes to a close Trout’s Fly Fishing has teamed with The Drake and drakemag.com to run its year-end photo extravaganza. What’s up for grabs? 1) A one-year subscription to…
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In addition to spying on neighbors and looking at the outside of their houses—from inside their houses—researchers at the University of British Columbia have found yet another practical use for Google Earth technology. Using the satellite imagery scientists have discovered that large fish traps in the Persian Gulf could be netting nearly six times more fish…
DetailsIn addition to spying on neighbors and looking at the outside of their houses—from inside their houses—researchers at the University of British Columbia have found yet another practical use for Google Earth technology. Using the satellite imagery scientists have discovered that large fish traps in the Persian Gulf could be netting nearly six times more fish…
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Long Live the King tells the story of Alaska’s king salmon fishery, where numbers have plummeted in recent years on several of the state’s most iconic rivers. It also delivers a full dose of beastly chinook of the catch-and-released variety. Watch it “In addition, what is starting to seem like an all out war on salmon–mining,…
DetailsLong Live the King tells the story of Alaska’s king salmon fishery, where numbers have plummeted in recent years on several of the state’s most iconic rivers. It also delivers a full dose of beastly chinook of the catch-and-released variety. Watch it “In addition, what is starting to seem like an all out war on salmon–mining,…
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Casting a Voice examines the implications of building crude oil pipelines through British Columbia’s world-class watersheds. The verdict? The Skeena River drainage deserves better than that. Watch it According to longtime angler Rob Brown the Skeena River drainage is “the last bastion of wild steelhead.” This film examines the value of the Skeena River and…
DetailsCasting a Voice examines the implications of building crude oil pipelines through British Columbia’s world-class watersheds. The verdict? The Skeena River drainage deserves better than that. Watch it According to longtime angler Rob Brown the Skeena River drainage is “the last bastion of wild steelhead.” This film examines the value of the Skeena River and…
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Even more endangered than the elusive tree octopus, there are now less than 750 native greenback cutthroat living in the wild. The last pack of hanging-ons inhabits a remote, high-gradient stream that the conservation-focused Colorado Greenbacks organization is working to protect. Watch it Via the Greenbacks: “Through January of 2014 we’re running an Indiegogo Project…
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