Hank Patterson: Take II
More from our favorite “high-school graduate”/flyfishing extraordinaire, Hank Patterson. Episode II features wisdoms on how to fend off a grizzly attack via the “paralyzer to the chode” technique. Check it.
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Orvis Helios 2 Hunt: Question #8 This writer has had three essays published in The Drake, which were titled, “Natives” (1998); “Brown Trout” (2002); and “Set Them Free” (2004). Who is he?
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Orvis Helios 2 Hunt: Question #7 Which issue had John Gierach’s name spelled “Geirach”—on the COVER?
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Orvis Helios 2 Hunt: Question #6 What years did The Drake move to semi-annual publication, and from semi-annual to quarterly?
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Orvis Helios 2 Hunt: Question #5 Into which bay does the river flow that the founder’s dog was named after?
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Orvis Helios 2 Hunt: Question #4 In Guiding Goes Gangster—winner of Best Humor Award at the 2010 Drake Fly Fishing Video Awards—what is it the lovely Mrs. Johnson wants to do with her fish?
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Orvis Helios 2 Hunt: Question #3 Which Wyoming town was The Drake actually founded in? (Hint: It’s not Jackson.)
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Orvis Helios 2 Hunt: Question #1 From The Drake, Fall 2012— After a whirlwind trip along the Oregon Trail, where Clyde and Tom collided with some Lake Billy Chinook smallies, the keys have now been passed to RA Beattie in Bend. How many gallons of Mirror Pond Ale would it take to fill up Clyde’s…
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Orvis Helios 2 Hunt: Question #2 From The Drake, Fall 2012— The best way to score a free reel according to Drake contributor Tosh Brown is to:
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C is for… Cutthroat
C is for Cutthroat. It also stands for one of our favorite Drake contributors, Corey Kruitbosch. CK gets it done Rocky Mountain-style with some Monday morning movie action.
Fire Torches Lahontan Habitat
SOUTHEASTERN, OR—ODFW has suspended fishing in several of the state’s Lahontan cutthroat streams due to severe habitat destruction from the recent Holloway fire. According to area fish biologists, the 245,505-acre burn decimated riparian vegetation on some stream sections and fire fighters observed fish dying from asphyxiation.
Sticker Bombings—Southern Oregon
As part of our guerilla marketing efforts, Drake stickers are now available in “icy-fresh cobalt blue”—as seen here on Southern Oregon’s Williamson River.
Surf’s Up Kamchatka
Kamchatka—the land of vodka, volcanos, a shirtless Vladimir Putin… and now surfing. Patagonia surf ambassadors Keith Malloy and Trevor Gordon, along with Chris Burkard, Cyrus Sutton, Dane Gudauskas, and Foster Huntington have set out on an exploratory surf trip to eastern Russia, where they’ll camp, source waves, and do some flyfishing.
Autumn Assumptions
If you’ve spent any time in the Rocky Mountain west this summer, you’ve likely overheard a ton of mumbling and grumbling about fires, drought, and shit fishing. Well, some of it is true. And some of it has been overhyped. We recently received this note from Greg Felt over at ArkAnglers on Colorado’s Arkansas River,…
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7 Years to the Day
Hurricane Isaac made landfall Tuesday afternoon smashing the Gulf Coast and sweeping dangerously close to New Orleans—exactly seven years to the day of Hurricane Katrina. Despite the creepy coincidence, the slow-moving storm avoided a head-on collision with NOLA and is now reported to be moving northwest toward Houma, La., at approximately 6 mph.
Yellow Gold
Big congrats to Drake-reg Will Rice and Clint Packo, winners of the prestigious 2012 South Platte Pro-Am Carp Slam. Rice and Packo edged all competitors with three carp landed, measuring in at 83 inches—total.
Water, Florida Bay, and Bonefish
When sight-fishing as a sport debuted in the Upper Keys and Florida Bay, boat-makers modified their hulls, fishing companies developed faster and lighter rods, and tackle shops sprouted up all over the islands. By the 1950s an entire industry was formed around a specific shallow-water grassland habitat dominated by tarpon, redfish, permit, snook, and bonefish.…
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Ride with Clyde: Part III
The Sacramento There’s a special kind of summertime heat reserved for the valleys of California. Even up north, triple digits are common in the Sacramento Valley, which is where I found Clyde parked in Ryan Peterson’s driveway, its black exterior soaking up every ray in Redding. With no AC and an afternoon departure, my first…
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Deconstructing Dworshak
Waters of Idaho’s North Fork Clearwater River once flowed freely to the Pacific. Cayuse Creek dropped from a high-elevation meadow into Kelly Creek, which funneled into the North Fork, which melded into the Clearwater proper, then the Snake, and finally the mighty Columbia. Native steelhead muscled upstream through it all—massive populations of massive fish during…
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Seven Fishing Presidents
George Washington Served: April 30, 1789 – March 4, 1797 America’s Founding Father was not only the Brits’ worst nightmare, he was also a badass woodsman, whiskey distiller, tobacco farmer, and once dabbled in spinning and weaving. We’re excusing the last two knowing that the First Prez also hauled in cash via commercial fishing on…
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Defining Dude
The term “dude” first appeared in 1883’s The Home and Farm Manual describing an ill-bred and ostentatious city dweller. It was refined to describe the Easterners, decked out by Abercrombie & Fitch, who trekked west to hunt, ride, and play at ranching. Among its contemporary uses, my favorite describes the argot preferred by youngish flyfishing…
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Trading Up
Can I return this reel? It’s brand new, never spooled up. Sure, do you have the receipt? No. Well, we can’t accept a return without a receipt. Why not?
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Will’s Rod Blaster XXL-9000
How to secure your rod in an ultra-cheap tube for less These days you can burn upwards of $200 on a space-age rod tube, or you can just toss your stick in a sack and hope for the best. I’ve been on the road and in the air quite a bit this summer. The people, places,…
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The REEL Adventures…
Introducing Hank Patterson—Ace Hardware and Waffle House-endorsed pro flyfishing guide and developer of the deadly SNAP-IT technique. “Once you’ve got a lot of line out there, you’re just gonna really want to SNAP that thing. SNAP it forward. If you don’t hear it SNAPPING you’re not doing it right!”
