The Drake Magazine 2026 Summer Issue
Top 40 fly names; new public land; The Gunnison; The Bob; Why we still stock; Kennebec restoration; Clyde has survived; float-tubing Oregon; Cape Cod; musky artist; Adirondack road-trip; flyfishing Iran; Rob Cesta; salmon in Russia; Yellowstone cutthroat; Thompson River rainbows; Mexican permit; and triggers!
The Drake Magazine 2026 Spring Issue
Flip Pallot’s Voiceover; Musky Madness; Alabama mud; What it’s like to be a steelhead, AZ trout; AK rainforests; itinerant tattooing; 9 permit in the Merkin; donkey fish-guardian; beach vans; dock swagger; ancient stripping baskets, Maine brookies; waders or flip-flops; hating on hotspotters; poling alone; Quetico smallies; A River Runs Through It turns 50!
The Drake Magazine 2025/26 Winter Issue
Thomas McGuane; John Gierach; Clyde returns; carp on the Columbia; urban Ireland; another Colorado access battle; ode to Lady Caroline; unknown trout; tarpon on Curaçao; mobile saunas; Keys bonefish; fishing with labs, last casts; baby snook; steelheading Milwaukee; great lakers; odd fish on Oahu; and your new 2026 fishing license!
Drake Fly Fishing 2025 Fall Issue
Flip Pallot; tarpon; stripers; permit camp; Slovenia; trout slams; autumn browns; Scot Simmons; earworms; coastal cutthroat; park ponds; fishing the surf zone; Driftless with dries; Fish for Change; The Monkey Wrench Gang; American River
Drake Fly Fishing 2025 Summer Issue
Idaho smallmouth, Montana trout, Utah access, urban Denver, Cuban permit, Louisiana redfish, Alaska’s Tongass, Ohio brook trout, dry-fly snobatorium, Ontario’s Sand River, Gila wilderness, Michigan summer, Guadelupe’s crevalle, Big Two-Hearted River turns 100, one huge chinook, Shenandoah smallmouth, and translating Senator Mike Lee
Drake Fly Fishing 2025 Spring Issue
Wyoming Trout, Streamer Junkie, Louisiana Redfish, Hawaii Bonefish, the River Test; shooting Gierach; dirtbag Patagonia; Bahamian bones; Atlantic steelhead; the inevitable attraction of saltwater; Chico Fernandez; English chalkstreams; alternative bass lakes;
Drake Fly Fishing 2025 Winter Issue
Mexico Bass; Musky Crush; Baja Roosters; Seychelles; Steelhead Camp; Gierach; Snoozer Trips; Finding Religion; Non-private Idaho, Bahamas Bonefish; Calgary’s Bow River; New Zealand’s North Island; Tampa Bay; North Queensland
Drake Fly Fishing 2024 Fall Issue
Owyhee; Albies; Carp; Babine; Musky; Boise; Stillwater; Midwest Smallmouth; Flying Ants; Project 2025; Sierra Nevada Backcountry; Stop Untangling!; Mexican Machaca; Susitna River; South Carolina; Iceland; On Sleeping In; Minnisconchigan; A Murder In Oregon; Permit Slams; And The Atlantic Salmon Legacy Of Bill Taylor
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Drake Fly Fishing 2024 Summer Issue
Idaho; Wyoming; Michigan; Alaska; Lee’s Ferry malfeasance; the life of Nick Lyons; good samaritan Josh Mills; the sixth Great Lake; Nova Scotia brook trout; wine-tasting Washington; tarpon and snook in Honduras; stripers from the rocks; Eastern Tennessee cicadas; and a dog named George
Drake Fly Fishing 2024 Spring Issue
Fly Tying, Largemouth; Musky; Steelhead Types; Stripers; Spanish Pyrenees; The Case For Hotspotting; Backcountry Brookies; Israeli Flyfishing; California’s Eel; The Suwannee; Leonard Rods; Flyfishing Bars; Iceland Escapees; Defining A Mountain Town; Filmmaker Robert Thompson; And An Open Letter To A Jet Skier!
Drake Fly Fishing Magazine 2023-2024 Winter Issue
Carping Wyoming; a week in Cuba; Pyramid Lake; African Tigerfish; a fish named Aristotle; Pennsylvania creeks; Skagit River comeback; Starlinking; PermMaster; sabbatical guy; Great Lakes steelhead; Snake River headwaters; Earth Day dad; Left Coast campfire; fishing with crabs; fishing California’s Sierra Nevada; and Clyde hits the big screen!
2023 Fall Issue
BRITISH COLUMBIA STEELHEAD, ICELANDIC SALMON, TEXAS TARPON, IDAHO ROAD-TRIP, WATER TESTERS, BLUEWINGS, WINCHESTER DAM, OCTOBER CADDIS, KEYS TARPON, PUERTO RICO TARPON,
Puerto Rico tarpon, Kansas City sunfish, South Carolina redfish, Gar in Canada, holiday casting advice; fishing on a hunting trip; Belizean permit, and a chironomid-life crisis!
2023 Summer Issue
QUESTIONABLE GUIDE ADVICE; BONEFISHING THE KEYS; FLYFISHING IRELAND; COLORADO ACCESS FAIL; SWIFTIES AND TARPON; ATLANTIC SALMON; TED WILLIAMS IN ISLAMORADA
23andMe for trout; Jura, Scotland; urban Minnesota; non-urban Minnesota; East Branch of the Delaware; backcountry Yellowstone; the Madison and Henry’s Fork; exploring Xcalak; steelhead baptism; and one great horse
2023 Spring Issue
TABORY ON STRIPERS; YUKON PIKE; L.A. CARP; PUNTA ALLEN; 461 DAYS OF FLYFISHING; PERMIT GUIDE JUSTIN REA; MICHIGAN DAM REMOVALS.
Nevada’s native trout; Florida snook; recreation.ripoff; first-year guiding;Georgia redfish; AK steelhead; tidal carping; smallie issues; GTs in Oman; and celebrating Silas Goodrich Day!
2022 -2023 Winter Issue
WHAT HAPPENED IN BOLIVIA?, QUEBEC STRIPERS, YUCATAN TARPON, SOUTH CAROLINA REDFISH, ALASKA GRAYLING, OREGON STEELHEAD, MONTANA CARP, BUILDING BAMBOO, JERSEY WINTERS,
BUG ART.
kenai car trouble, rod deceit, family-man blues, poaching England, and tenkara—12,000 years ago!
Drake Fly Fishing Magazine 2022 Summer Issue
COLORADO CUTTHROAT; BAHAMAS BONEFISH; MICHIGAN HEX HATCH; KEY WEST’S CRUISE-SHIP PROBLEM; UTAH BLUEWINGS; BACKCOUNTRY MONTANA
Louisiana redfish; West Branch of the Delaware; artist Ellen McCaleb; guide Noah Thompson; woodworker Al Swanson; permit preparation; Cooper Landing, Alaska; Clyde in Bama; leave the camera at home; and B.C. Whacking Day!
Drake Fly Fishing Magazine 2022 Summer Issue
COLORADO CUTTHROAT; BAHAMAS BONEFISH; MICHIGAN HEX HATCH; KEY WEST’S CRUISE-SHIP PROBLEM; UTAH BLUEWINGS; BACKCOUNTRY MONTANA
Louisiana redfish; West Branch of the Delaware; artist Ellen McCaleb; guide Noah Thompson; woodworker Al Swanson; permit preparation; Cooper Landing, Alaska; Clyde in Bama; leave the camera at home; and B.C. Whacking Day!
Drake Magazine 2022 Winter Issue
LAKE ERIE SMALLMOUTH, OO MANY PINK SALMON, SKWALAS, PUBLIC-ACCESS HEADACHES, CHILEAN PATAGONIA, WISCONSIN BROOK TROUT, APPALACHIAN BUSHWHACKING
tripping on Oregon’s Owyhee; flyfishing literature; Washington coho (and tires); Key West permit, California golden trout, and a failed fly-tyer
Drake Magazine 2021 Fall Issue
bass bugs, Portugal The Man, streamer fishing, unlucky meadowlark, urban North Carolina, fishing bars, Gulkana River, Didymo update, SS Permit, Louisiana redfish
Drake Magazine 2021 Summer Issue
Clyde returns, flyfisher’s home-buying guide, Canadian muskies, Mexican permit, Wyoming’s upper Green, California’s Lower Stanislaus, Washington D.C.’s Potomac, Washington State’s net-pens, Tennessee smallmouth, Idaho bass and carp, Pennsylvania brook trout, Wisconsin brown trout, the courage of Kings, the grace of dragonflies, and how not to land a big bass
Drake Magazine 2021 Spring Issue
Pandemic flies, Southern Colorado road trip, Brood X cicadas, Idaho salmon, Michigan trout, Pennsylvania carp, Wisconsin pike, Belize permit, Alaska grayling, South Carolina redfish, Russian taimen, Oregon backcountry, Baja beach trip, fly-names drama, Slough Creek, skiff challenge, expensive blue-wings, guided bass trips, and who’s been a bad dog in the White House?