Feb202014
Daily DrakeBeads

BeadsHowever you choose to “fly fish” is your prerogative. Nevertheless, the great bead debate wages on, creating moral and ethical rifts between anglers with pegged beads in their kit and purists who prefer day-glo orange scuds.

On Wyoming’s Grey Reef, fish and game is alerting anglers to the illegalities of the practice. Specifically, when fishing a trailing hook. “With this technique, the fish takes the bead in its mouth, not the hook, and when the angler tightens the line, the hook is set outside the mouth, which is snagging and illegal.” Feel free to chime in, here.

And more from Michiganfly.com, today: To Bead or Not to Bead.

No reports of strongarming by cossacks in the U.S. But bead with caution abroad.

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Tom Bie
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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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