Category Archives: Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2019
Drake Magazine Back Issue Content: 2019
Spring – True Wilderness, Black Squall, Spring Showers. Contributors: Elliott Adler Photos by Hansi Johnson, Tom McGuane, Brian Grossenbacher, Matt Shaw, Mark Lewis, Hansi Johnson, Corey Kruitbosch, Arian Stevens, Dave McCoy, and Lee Church
Summer – Unemployed Fishing, The Last Ride, Returning from War. Contributors: Matt Labash, Ben Haguewood, Michael J. Macleod
Fall – Smallie Savage, Smoke on the Water, La Vita Largemouth, Two-Track Attack
Winter – From marlin in Mexico to largemouth in Louisiana to tailwater trout in Colorado. Plus: winter stripers in Connecticut, winter steelhead in the Pacific Northwest, sea-run cutties, BVI bonefish, the Skagit, the St. Joe, the Tallahatchie, the Tongass National Forest, Iceland and Greenland, Alaskan char, western Cuba, Espirito Santo Bay, Clyde goes bassin’, winter in Minnesota, permit in Belize, redfish in Louisiana, trout-town envy, and the wrongdoings of a father and daughter.
“Judge Sharon Gleason, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Alaska, ruled last week that the Forest Service violated federal law by approving future logging in the 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest.”
I pay my bills here in Southeast Alaska, at least in part, by having short and intense conversations on airplanes. I help wedge wadered clients from all over the globe into DeHavilland Beavers, then drop in on some of the planet’s most spectacular temperate rainforest
Survive, is what an angler does the first few minutes after hooking a striped marlin. My friend Nick and I shout with joy, accompanied by excited words in Spanish from our new friends. We watch a reel getting emptied and watch the fish leap, flip, and dive. Thirty minutes later and it’s the post-release chatter,…
riter and historian David T. Courtwright calls them “limbic capitalists”—people or companies that target our limbic system, the part of our brains primarily responsible for emotion, especially as it relates to pleasure, motivation, and survival. Courtwright is author of The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business. “Biological evolution shaped the limbic system,…
As a lifetime Oregon resident, angler, and guide, I spend 40-60 days a year on the rivers of the Southern Oregon coast. I interact with anglers that use all types of methods, and every one of them I’ve talked to has noticed a significant decline in encounters with wild steelhead. How can this be explained?…
It’s late February and I stumble out the door to grab another beer kept cold by winter’s free refrigeration. If it was anything but the high-octane variety, it would’ve frozen from a lack of alcohol. I pop the cap, drain it, and unzip my pants, melting as much snow as possible when I piss—anything to…
