Chasing pike in the Yukon Territory

Yukon – Inconnu Lodge Flyfishing

Destination travel, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Summer 2017, Lodges, Outfitters, and Guides, TroutLeave a comment

Dan caught the only inconnu. Let’s get that out of the way. “Dan” is Dan Armstrong, a well-traveled, Bozeman-based photographer who occasionally gets invited on spectacular fishing trips with the tacit understanding that his job is to record the heroics of the writer and keep his hands off the rod. But it was our last…

What’s happening to my state?

Re-Moved to Alaska

Conservation, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2013, Drake Magazine Back Issue Content Spring 2013, Lifestyle, Salmon/Steelhead, U.S. places11 Comments

ABOARD THE MV MATANUSKA, on a 1,000-mile journey up the rainforest coast from Washington, a cross section of modern-day Alaska’s citizenry relaxed to a gentle January swell—old salts in halibut jackets bound for port towns; rotund men goat-t’d up, ball caps blazing with logos of off-road-vehicle brands; young hippies, all dreadlocks and skirts-over-pants, moving North…