From meth smuggling escapades and crash landings at the White House to this eagle’s-eye view of B.C.’s Skeena Country… welcome to the dawn of the drone.
Via W.YellowstoneFly/PescaPatagonia: “Aerial footage from winter 2014. I’m finding that non-winter time videos are lit better and easier to shoot. I look forward this summer, waking flies under the drone to large BC risers.”
Music by Dexter Britain “On My Way Home”
Fishermen: Justin Spence, Jared Cady, Matt Klara, Chad Smith
Camera/Pilot/Edit: Chad Smith
Location: Skeena Country
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.