The Drake

The Drake is a quarterly magazine for people who love flyfishing, and also love quality writing and photography. The Drake is informative, educational, and entertaining, but it is not a "how-to" magazine. Many of the stories are about the "culture" of flyfishing—the people, the places, and of course, the fish.

Brianna Proctor • Finding new water, the hard way

What We Agree On

The Drake

1,000 WORDS

RISES • LETTERS FROM THE FAITHFUL

Under Fire • Deadly Wildfires along Oregon Rivers

Get Well Soon • Sympathy card for the North Umpqua

Feeder Stream Face-Off • A different kind of tournament on Colorado’s Yampa

Joey’s Fly Fishing Foundation • A little magic in Sheridan, Wyoming

Wade Wisely • Drinking beer for brook trout in Iowa

Back to Schoolies • How stripers saved September

Harpeth River Emergence • Twenty years of success for a Tennessee conservancy

Shelter in (Any) Place • Make their home your home!

ASK TRASK

VER BAIT ’EM

Project Litterbug

On the Cains

Todd Nance

Bob White’s Art

Wet Fly Swing Podcast

Fish Rap

North Florida Floodtides • Charleston isn’t the only tailing zone

Smeltzer the Musky Angler • Apologies to Herman Melville

The Hook Up • Striper sightings in central New Jersey

Thanksgiving Fireball • Redemption on the Babine

Rowing to Baikal • Sixty Days on Mongolia’s Selenge River

Killer Kitty • Finding comfort in a cat

Fish of the Night • Chasing stripers along the Jersey Shore

Rules Are Rules • A brewski saved is a brewski earned

MISSISSIPPI LEARNIN’ • Smallies and pike on the mighty Mississippi

ALBIE BUM • Out of the brownstone and onto the beach

OUR MAN IN SPIAZZO • Chasing Marble Trout in the Rendena Valley

NORTHBOUND IN NEUQUÉN • Exploring one of Patagonia’s last flyfishing frontiers

Nightcrawler • Idaho after dark, with Christian Reid

High Country Hall Pass • Go late and go far

DRAKE FLY SHOPS

Captain Castro • The simple, special life of a Mexican permit guide