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Public Mistrust Doctrine

Conservation, Daily Drake, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2021, Freshwater Fly Fishing, Homepage Content, Policy/Politics/Laws, Stream Access, U.S. placesBy Tom Bie March 29, 2022 Leave a comment

“The topic of stream access illustrates one of the most perplexing types of legal conflicts that can arise… Indeed, it is difficult to find a legal issue that is more tangled and uncertain.” —A Wildlife Primer (2009), by Eric Freyfogle and Dale Goble

Colorado’s river laws might be in trouble. Roger Hill, the octogenarian trying to fulfill his dream of legally wade-fishing the Arkansas River, was at the Colorado Court of Appeals on January 27 and got good news about his case—Hill v Warsewa.

Tailwater Salvation

Conservation, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Spring 2019, Lifestyle, The Put In, U.S. placesBy Tom Bie April 3, 2019 Leave a comment

The West may experience a lengthy runoff in 2019 While it’s always tricky making May or June runoff predictions in March, Snotel data from around the West indicates that snowpack levels, especially in Southern Colorado, Southern Utah, and parts of California’s Central Sierras, are poised in 2019 to create high flows or a long runoff…

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Wyoming’s Drug Ranch

Daily Drake, Policy/Politics/LawsBy Tom Bie February 9, 2018 Leave a comment

Cocaine smuggler’s former Clarks Fork property returns to the spotlight for a public lands squabble Boat captain Stewart Allen Bost and his pals almost slipped into obscurity after they smuggled more than 3,000 kilos of Columbian cocaine from the Bahamas to South Florida in 1986. With approximately $1.35 million lining his pockets, Bost sought early…

Yellowstoned – Paradise Valley Trouble

Conservation, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Winter 2017, Policy/Politics/LawsBy Jesse Lance Robbins January 27, 2018 Leave a comment

THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER’S pristine headwaters are tucked into some of the most remote land in the Lower 48, draining roughly 70,000 square miles across Wyoming and Montana. These wild waters serve as a stronghold for native Yellowstone cutthroat, and, combined with Yellowstone Lake, make up the largest inland population of cutthroat in the world.

Rodmaking Rose

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Fall 2016, Fly Fishing Industry, Lifestyle, Lodges, Outfitters, and GuidesBy April Darrow December 15, 2017 Leave a comment

BEFORE APRIL ARCHER cofounded Denver-based SaraBella Fishing—makers of women-specific fly rods—she’d already noticed an influx of female flyfishers to the sport. But as an angler herself, fishing since she was a toddler and flyfishing for the past 16 years, she also recognized that there was a distinct lack of women-specific gear.

Unofficial Absaroka

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Winter 2017, Policy/Politics/Laws, Trout, U.S. placesBy Geoff Mueller December 13, 2017 Leave a comment

A week from now the creek at our boots will be too thin to float. Fueled by the dregs of a heavy winter snowpack atop Wyoming’s Bighorn Range, its window is on the verge of being shuttered. “Hard to say how it’ll fish,” Clark Smyth says from under the brim of an oversized straw hat.…

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Guide Pointer Tech Aims to Boost Your Flyshop Biz

Fly Fishing Industry, Fly Fishing Industry NewsBy Drake Magazine July 6, 2017 Leave a comment

Mike Dawes has a fishing problem. He’s been wading saltwater flats since the impressionable age of seven. He’s a veteran player on the permit tourney circuit. He’s even starred in couple of film tour flicks. But perhaps the biggest struggle he’s had to overcome in his flyfishing career didn’t involve a dour fish or a…

RepYourWater Kicks $60k Toward Conservation

Conservation, Fly Fishing Industry News, U.S. placesBy Drake Magazine December 8, 2016 Leave a comment

Flyfishing businesses occupy a tempestuous microcosm tied to the sea-sawing health of rivers and oceans. Example. If there are no fish (participation catalyst), there is no you (potential consumer). And for brands that appreciate a prosperous tomorrow, backing nonprofits working to keep trout, tarpon, salmon, steelhead swimming makes sense.

Saving the Upper Snake

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Summer 2016, Humor, Policy/Politics/Laws, U.S. placesBy Matt Hansen November 2, 2016 Leave a comment

EVEN IN THE END, Cliff Hansen—one of the most influential advocates of local control and state rights in Wyoming history—thought it was a good idea. But thank the river gods he didn’t get his way back in the day. Otherwise, the Snake River in what is now Grand Teton National Park would be a whole…

Carpin’ and Jackalopin’ with Clyde

Ride With Clyde, Trout, U.S. placesBy Kyle Wilkinson April 5, 2016 Leave a comment

The flashing freeway sign reminded us that high winds had closed I-25 to light and/or high-profile vehicles. This wasn’t a problem for Clyde. Ford built him in 1974 weighing just under 5,000 pounds. Its big-block 460 engine alone weighs more than 700. We weren’t getting blown anywhere. Instead, we were comfortably cruising north riding low…

Bag It

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Spring 2016, Humor, LifestyleBy Geoff Mueller March 25, 2016 1 Comment

The inaugural unfurling took place four years ago in Yellowstone, on Slough Creek’s high meadow reaches. Plush 650-fill down internals provided a cozy bulwark against the still frigid nighttime lows of early spring. Her rugged inflatable underside took the edge off pointy rocks and smothered knobby roots for a comfortable night’s slumber. While her lightweight…

The Reef Fly Shop

Fly Fishing Industry, Flyshop Friday, Lodges, Outfitters, and GuidesBy Geoff Mueller July 31, 2015 Leave a comment

Sagebrush and brown rolling mounds. Ripping wind and an Arctic shoulder-season. One righteous truck stop bar, where dollar bills wallpaper smoky internals. And iffy gas station burritos at 6 a.m. There you have Alcova, Wyoming… at first glance.

Girls Night In

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2014 Summer, Humor, Lifestyle, TroutBy Mary Lou Bendrick June 25, 2014 11 Comments

EVERY TIME A GIRLFRIEND COMPLAINS about her husband or boyfriend going fishing again (insert big sigh), I bite off a small chunk of my tongue. I’d love for my husband to go fishing. A week in Montana? Hmmm- That doesn’t seem far away enough-or long enough. I hear there are big fish in Kamchatka. And…

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Roadless Road Trips—Wyoming

Conservation, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2012, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Fall 2012, Policy/Politics/Laws, U.S. placesBy Geoff Mueller March 5, 2013 3 Comments

The wind blows in Wyoming. So much so that over much of its southern acreage, trees live in a constant state of sideways, bowing to the prevailing forces. Tumbleweed bounces through prairie sagebrush. The earth’s guts, buttes, and sawtooth ridgelines live outside its skin—exposed. There are rivers. And there are generally few roads and people…

Rock Creek Anglers

Fly Fishing Industry, Flyshop Friday, Lodges, Outfitters, and GuidesBy Geoff Mueller September 15, 2011 Leave a comment

There are those flyshops we find in pursuit of convenience: they either live close to home or en route to destinations that require localized beta and specific bugs. Then there are those—farther afield, in unlikely places you visit once but may never return—that find us. Rock Creek Anglers, located in Saddlesrting, Wyoming, falls into the…

Big Trouble on Little Mountain

Conservation, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2011, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Fall 2011, Policy/Politics/Laws, U.S. placesBy Matthew Copeland September 1, 2011 Leave a comment

We’re miles from the truck and 600 feet below the canyon rim when the first raindrops dimple Trout Creek. Charlie Card has spent his entire life in this country and guided it professionally since he was seventeen. I figure that makes pulling the plug his call. “What do you think, Charlie?”

Meet Your Maker

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2011, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Spring 2011, Fly Fishing Art, LifestyleBy Geoff Mueller June 27, 2011 1 Comment

Matt Schliske isn’t 90 years old. He does not have a scraggly beard or a cabin in the woods. His driveway shows no signs of potholes and decrepit pickup trucks. And from what I can tell, the 37-year-old does not fit many of the clichés associated with “bamboo rod maker,” other than one: the pursuit…

Sloth – From: Seven Sins of Fly Fishing

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2009, Humor, Lifestyle, OpinionBy Bruce Smithhammer December 8, 2010 Leave a comment

The view from between my wading boots couldn’t be better: a good-looking drift boat anchored in the eddy, a cooler full of barley pops sitting nearby on the gravel bar, the river burbling beyond. Hell, I think I just saw a rise on the far side. But there is very little that could motivate me…

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2010 Flyfishing Trade Show to be Held in Lobby of Rock Springs EconoLodge

Fly Fishing Industry, Fly Fishing Industry News, Lodges, Outfitters, and GuidesBy Tom Bie December 8, 2009 Leave a comment

With the announcement this week by the American Fly Fishing Trade Association (AFFTA) that it would “sponsor and/or endorse and/or ignore and/or relocate an Independent Fly Fishing show in 2010,” it came as welcome news to the industry this morning that the trade group has settled on the lobby of the Rock Springs, Wyoming, EconoLodge…

Living On Easement Street

Conservation, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2001, Policy/Politics/Laws, U.S. placesBy February 18, 2007 Leave a comment

It only took a few minutes kneeling and staring into the ripples before I spotted a fish. A cutthroat, maybe 10 inches long, darted from behind a rock into the undercut bank. Walking this spread earlier in the afternoon, ranch broker Greg Fay told me that since he began restoring this creek along Montana’s Ruby…

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