MICHIGAN—Ice fishing is a dangerous affair. In addition to frostbitten digits, and falling asleep and spilling your drink, you can now add being “fish slapped” to your list of fears.
“Two Egelston Twp, Mich. ice anglers told police a woman from a neighboring shanty struck them in the face with a fish after she asked them to turn their heads while she urinated on the ice. ‘While their backs were turned the woman struck the first complainant in the head with a fish,’ said Norton Shores Police Lt. Jon Gale. ‘The female then approached them and struck the other man across the face with a fish.'”
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.