Tag Archives: boxfish

First Bone

Destination travel, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2014 Winter, Humor, Saltwater Fly FishingBy Pete Rowney January 3, 2015 2 Comments

The act of walking across a white-sand flat, knee-deep in endless shades of blue, is made much more interesting by bonefish. Especially if you’ve never caught one. After a few days spent searching empty water on the Bahamian island of Exuma, we drove down a twisted dirt road, past rotting cars and abandoned dishwashers, and…

Barracuda Blues

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2011, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Spring 2011, Humor, Lifestyle, Saltwater Fly FishingBy Mike Holiday June 27, 2011 2 Comments

For every good shot at a tarpon, permit, or bonefish, there’s a cast-per-hour-of-effort ratio that on most days looks like a line graph of the U.S. economy. Then there are those days that you instantly know you’re losing, like a cold February morning when even the boxfish are lurking deep and you’re just hoping for…