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March Madness – Finding calm amid coronavirus anxiety

Daily Drake, Fly Fishing Industry, Fly Fishing Industry News, Fly Fishing News, Homepage Content, LifestyleBy Monte Burke March 23, 2020 3 Comments

It was a brisk and beautiful morning, the sky cloudless, the sunlight sharp. It was the kind of day that under different circumstances would have you looking forward to the coming seasons of warmth and splendor and carefree fun. We began packing the car. I’ll never forget the looks on some of my neighbors’ faces as I took the bags of groceries—canned goods, pasta, rice and yes, even some toilet paper—to the car. Those faces betrayed thoughts. Wait, should I be doing the same thing? Fear may be the only thing more contagious than this virus.

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Albies of Autumn – Catch and Release

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Fall 2019, Lifestyle, The Put In, U.S. placesBy Monte Burke October 10, 2019 3 Comments

From North Carolina to the Vineyard When the indulgences of summer have finally and fully come to an end, it’s time to start thinking about albies. I leave my home before the great commute begins. It’s the only sane way to travel east on the island and, at that time of day, it can actually…

Zebra Caddis Fly

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Summer 2017, Hatches and Bugs, LifestyleBy Elliott Adler June 6, 2017 Leave a comment

One night during my sophomore year of college, a drunk Swedish exchange student sunk into my couch and began telling tales of the old country. Midsommar’s Eve is a special event in June, Henrick said, when all able-bodied citizens eat and drink till they can’t. He reminisced about his first Midsommar’s kiss, first Midsommar’s beer,…

The Adirondack Experience

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Fall 2016, Humor, LifestyleBy John Segesta September 26, 2016 10 Comments

A few years ago, I was sitting on the porch of a house I no longer live in, venting to a friend about “too much work, not enough fishing.” I told him I wanted to fish again, and said I knew just the guy to get me back on the water. The porch had great…

I’ll Take a Half-Dozen Malpeques and a Cocktail

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Summer 2016, Humor, LifestyleBy Miles Nolte June 29, 2016 5 Comments

Upon learning of Jim Harrison’s death, reputedly hunched over his typewriter at work on a poem, I gather some of my favorite books and walk to a nearby bar. Perching on a stool by the window, I order a tequila cocktail and a half dozen Malpeque oysters. The oysters arrive, lascivious, nearly quivering in their…

Deli Meat

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Spring 2016, Humor, LifestyleBy Benjamin Gruner April 5, 2016 2 Comments

Cleaning a meat slicer requires a certain kind of finesse. It takes concentration, patience, and that funny muscle in your upper forearm. I’m standing awkwardly behind the glass counter at Terri’s Deli in upstate New York, my oddly shaped teenage torso hunched over the slicer. My toothpick arms move carefully back and forth as my fingers get…

Gotcha Covered

Destination travel, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Fall 2015, Fly Fishing Industry, Policy/Politics/LawsBy Drake Magazine September 30, 2015 9 Comments

IN JULY, the Bahamian government and the Bahamas Fly Fishing Industry Association (BFFIA) announced proposed changes to laws governing bonefishing in the Bahamas. Some of the proposals—like requiring visiting anglers to hire a guide—created public outcry, private controversy, and several scintillating blogfights. But our own investigative reporting uncovered a few lesser-known proposals:

Jones Outfitters, Inc.

Fly Fishing Industry, Flyshop Friday, Lodges, Outfitters, and Guides, U.S. placesBy Geoff Mueller October 12, 2011 Leave a comment

Back in 1980, Lake Placid played host to a little event called the Winter Olympics. A bunch of figure skaters and tobogganers showed up, as well as some dudes with hockey sticks and missing teeth. Naturally, no one paid too much attention to the figure skaters. (Tonya Harding was barely even born yet. And Will…

The Stash

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2010, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Fall/Winter 2010, Humor, LifestyleBy Geoff Mueller June 27, 2011 Leave a comment

It takes a certain swagger to pull off a good mustache. Some guys just have it: Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Jose Wejebe. And ’staches on Norris, Bronson, Chuck Furimsky, and the Marlboro Man say “badass” like no others. Hall-of-fame pitcher and fisher “Goose” Gossage carries an enviable upper-lip umbrella, as does Dr. Phil—meaty enough to…

Oak Orchard Fly Shop

Fly Fishing Industry, Flyshop Friday, Lodges, Outfitters, and GuidesBy Charlie Dickson January 13, 2011 Leave a comment

There are two types of fly shops out there, destination and local. Oak Orchard Fly Shop defiantly falls into the latter category. Of course this was not always the case.

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Seven Steelhead Highways

Destination travel, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2009, Salmon/Steelhead, U.S. placesBy Tom Bie December 8, 2010 Leave a comment

Hwy 101, from Northern California to Port Angeles, Washington. No stretch of highway in the country crosses more prime steelhead water than this one. Start on California’s Klamath or Smith, then head up to Oregon’s Rogue or the great Tillamook Bay rivers like the Trask and Wilson, and then finish up on the drippy Washington…

Goldstock’s Sporting Goods

Fly Fishing Industry, Flyshop Friday, Lodges, Outfitters, and GuidesBy Alex Cerveniak October 15, 2010 Leave a comment

When I moved to an Albany, NY suburb from northern Michigan five years ago, my first priority was to find the closest flyshop. At my new place of employment, I walked through a maze of cubicles, searching for the most outdoorsy looking guy in the building. “Bruce, where’s the local fly shop?” “We don’t really have…

Urban Angler—NYC

Fly Fishing Industry, Flyshop Friday, Lodges, Outfitters, and GuidesBy Geoff Mueller May 7, 2010 Leave a comment

If, as the classic narrative goes, there are more than 8 million stories in the naked city, Urban Angler flyshop, for the past 20 years, has been intertwined in the yarn. From links to the Madoffs (indirect at best, says Bernie) to recent American Express TV ads, this Manhattan retailer maintains its spot as the…

Wiley’s Flies

Fly Fishing Industry, Flyshop Friday, Lodges, Outfitters, and GuidesBy Geoff Mueller March 15, 2010 Leave a comment

Ultra remote Rainbow Lake, New York, buried deep within six million-acre Adirondack State Park, may seem an unlikely place for any business, let alone a startup flyshop. But that hasn’t deterred area native Vince Wilcox, who moved his online Colorado operations east and opened Wiley’s Flies in May 2008.

RODHOLDERS – John Gierach

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2001, Lifestyle, TroutBy Tom Bie February 18, 2007 Leave a comment

You’re a cab driver in New York City in 1971, trying to make a right hand turn at a busy Manhattan intersection but there’s some cocky bike messenger in your way and he won’t move. So you nudge him. Not hard, just enough to let him know that you’re in a cab and he’s on…

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