Almost Every Northwest Angler living within 100 miles of the Columbia River or its tributaries has a weekly, if not daily, if not hourly, ritual this time of year: checking the salmon and steelhead counts passing over eight dams on the Columbia and lower Snake rivers—Bonneville, The Dalles, John Day, McNary, Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental,…
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I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt. I contemplated spending the rest of the day staring out the window, imagining fishing trips that never happened. But the cobwebs started to clear, so I figured I might as well go fishing. I loaded a new two-hander in the…
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For your viewing pleasure, The Drake presents five exclusive clips from the new film Waypoints—the fourth project from the Confluence squad that brought you Drift, Rise, and Connect.
For your viewing pleasure, The Drake presents five exclusive clips from the new film Waypoints—the fourth project from the Confluence squad that brought you Drift, Rise, and Connect.
The Fly Fishing Film Tour (aka “The F3T”) is coming off a marathon nine-month season and edits for 2014 are now streaming in—including this clip that dives deep into the belly of AZ’s cinnabar walls. Watch it Via Kitchen Sink Studios: “Friendship, fly fishing, film and a thirst for adventure, “Vermillion” looks to capture it…
DetailsThe Fly Fishing Film Tour (aka “The F3T”) is coming off a marathon nine-month season and edits for 2014 are now streaming in—including this clip that dives deep into the belly of AZ’s cinnabar walls. Watch it Via Kitchen Sink Studios: “Friendship, fly fishing, film and a thirst for adventure, “Vermillion” looks to capture it…
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ISLAMORADA, FL—Keys guides aboard 100 boats banded together on Wednesday to rage against a dysfunctional machine, following lost revenue due to federal closures within Everglades National Park. “The park being closed means we can’t go fishing, that means we can’t make any money, and that means the days of fishing we are losing, we don’t get…
DetailsISLAMORADA, FL—Keys guides aboard 100 boats banded together on Wednesday to rage against a dysfunctional machine, following lost revenue due to federal closures within Everglades National Park. “The park being closed means we can’t go fishing, that means we can’t make any money, and that means the days of fishing we are losing, we don’t get…
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Join Trouts Fly Fishing and The Drake for Confluence Films’ latest movie project Waypoints, at Denver’s Oriental Theater next month. The globetrotting piece includes stops at St. Brandon’s Atoll in the Indian Ocean, Patagonian Chile, southeast Alaska, India, and the jungles of Venezuela for payara. Carp dapping in the South Platte, not included. Check out the trailer,…
DetailsJoin Trouts Fly Fishing and The Drake for Confluence Films’ latest movie project Waypoints, at Denver’s Oriental Theater next month. The globetrotting piece includes stops at St. Brandon’s Atoll in the Indian Ocean, Patagonian Chile, southeast Alaska, India, and the jungles of Venezuela for payara. Carp dapping in the South Platte, not included. Check out the trailer,…
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Due to congress’s inability to reach a Kumbaya-like stance on Obamacare, recent government shutdowns have sparked a free-for-all within the now human-free confines of Yellowstone National Park. Sadness settled in late last week, with confirmed reports of an ESA-listed grizzly fornicating with an unnamed raccoon behind an overturned dumpster at the unoccupied Madison Campground. Furloughed…
DetailsDue to congress’s inability to reach a Kumbaya-like stance on Obamacare, recent government shutdowns have sparked a free-for-all within the now human-free confines of Yellowstone National Park. Sadness settled in late last week, with confirmed reports of an ESA-listed grizzly fornicating with an unnamed raccoon behind an overturned dumpster at the unoccupied Madison Campground. Furloughed…
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The idea of a cruise ship vacation sounds awesome—especially if you’re into partying hard with octogenarians, or lack the creativity to pull off a seaworthy itinerary better than this guy’s. But love it or loathe it, there’s no denying the industry brings big bucks to small ports such as Key West. And the raging debate…
DetailsThe idea of a cruise ship vacation sounds awesome—especially if you’re into partying hard with octogenarians, or lack the creativity to pull off a seaworthy itinerary better than this guy’s. But love it or loathe it, there’s no denying the industry brings big bucks to small ports such as Key West. And the raging debate…
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John Wark’s vertigo-instigating work bucks the confines of terra firma in exchange for a rarefied view: one that starts high in the sky, via the cockpit of his Husky A1 bush plane. Those images—including recent shots of Ma Nature doing her best to drown Colorado during last month’s biblical flooding events—continue to be featured everywhere…
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After overdosing on the Breaking Bad season finale, television is back to its usual life-sucking self… so today it’s up to flyfishing teasers to fill that deep void. “Wild Country” from the crew at Montana Wild spews with the kind of bull we like—of the trout variety. Watch it And for your weekly conservation fix, North Fork…
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For many, fishing is a sanctified act. So what happens when you eliminate the practice from the actual areas we go to worship tarpon, permit, and bonefish? In the Keys, where The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary has been protecting 2,900 square nautical miles since it went into effect in 1990, anglers are itching for answers. The…
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Not-So-Fictional Fiction [Brickhead originally ran in the Summer 2010 issue of The Drake. For the all new Part II, click here. —ed] QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO. HIS DOGS WERE torched. He’d forgotten to put sunscreen on his feet the day before. He had taken his wading boots off after a mile walk on the flats and just spaced it.…
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Frontsidefly, alongside guitarist Kristian Matsson, makes flyfishing in Slovenia sound good. Check out their latest cuts. Watch it Via frontsidefly.com: “This are some random shots from what we did during the evenings in Slovenia. Filmed with panasonic lumix GH3 and mainly a Voigtländer nokton lens.” And sooner or later it’s going to dump. (Yesterday for those in…
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After sinking hundreds of millions into blueprinting its gold and copper mine monstrosity at the susceptible, fish-rich headwaters of Bristol Bay, AK, mining company Anglo American has officially backed out of the Pebble Limited Partnership. Anglo CEO, Mark Cutifani, said yesterday that the company’s focus would be to “prioritize capital to projects with the highest…
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This week NOAA released its 751-page draft plan for protecting endangered Columbia and Snake River salmon, which is basically a carbon copy of three previous federal-court rejected incarnations. Holding out hope for fourth time’s a charm, Save Our Wild Salmon executive director, Joseph Bogaard, said: “Unfortunately, the latest blueprint barely changes the plan rejected by the district…
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After months of discussion and debate, bickering and banter, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) delivered a firm message last week: No more jigging in Boca Grande Pass. “There’s not going to be a huge impact from this one ruling,” says Save the Tarpon spokesperson, Tom McLaughlin. “But it’s groundbreaking for the FWC,…
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Legendary Florida Keys angler and business owner, George Hommell, died on Saturday at the age of 88. Hommell was a founding member of the Islamorada Fishing Guides Association, which took root in the mid-50s and helped promote conservation measures in the region. A military veteran of World War II and Korea, Hommell was a self-taught flyfisher.…
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Washington State’s Skykomish River is born at the confluence of its north and west forks and drains a sliver of the western Cascades, where a looming Mt. Index has pondered its course for millennia. It’s a pretty picture, one where steelhead and salmon enter the fray seasonally, and one that could be marred by a $150…
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For your unbelabored Labor Day viewing, introducing Timmy Yochum of Bend, Oregon—a kid who works grocery store hours and rips no-handed wheelies en route to the river. Via RA Beattie and Beattie Outdoor Productions. “In their hometown of Bend, Oregon, Timmy Yochum is one who spends as much of his time on the water as possible…
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California’s alkaline, gull-infested moonscape known as Mono Lake, which lies just east of Yosemite, has been the subject of a heated environmental standoff for decades. Troubles began in the 1940s, when the lake’s Eastern Sierra tributaries were sucked dry and diverted to a World War II-era aqueduct for export to LA water users, about 350…
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Thanks to an armed populous wielding image-capturing devices of all calibers the “outdoors photographer” has become a dime-a-million lately. But most of us have never inhaled the intoxicating chemical fumes of a stop bath, nor spent much time wrapping our brains around the nuances of f-stops and apertures… because, quite frankly, it’s hard to find…
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