THE DRAKE magazine - any subscribers, thoughts???

I've always enjoyed the writing in it. I don't subscribe, but I generally have one of the latest issues lying around. Every visit to the message board just seemed like a bunch of douche-bags trying to out-douche each other....seemed pretty lame to me.
 
I met some of my finest and favorite fishing partners there back in the day. It is now an exercise in who can look the coolest and appear the most edgy. The old days on "The Suk" were a joy but those days are sadly gone. Right Yard?
 
Josh said:
The Drake was one of the first magazines to get away from the snooty "River Runs Through It" or "all about gear and tying" presentations for fly fishing media. As someone who came to fly fishing from the skateboard/snowboard/climbing world, The Drake was a breath of fresh air for me back then. Dirt baggy, irreverent, funny. It was the fly fishing version of the skate magazines I'd read for a decade. Hell, it said "Five bucks. $10 for bait fisherman." right on the cover, and that was awesome. The website's forum was always a little over the top for me and the folks there veered too far into "BS for the sake of BS". But the magazine was a different beast and I enjoyed reading it over the years.

I admit that the Fly Fishing Journal is more my speed these days. Some of that might be that it's a locally made product, which I'm always partial to. But some might just be that my dirtbag days are mostly behind me (though I'm still pretty irreverent) and the romantic zen of fishing (realistic or not) grabs my brain more than the need to poke the eye of conformity.

That said, this thread reminds me that I should go grab the most recent copy and see what I've been missing.
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This. The Fly Fishing Journal is as good as you will find.
 
Josh said:
The Drake was one of the first magazines to get away from the snooty "River Runs Through It"
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Huh; maybe I'm thinking about the wrong thing. I don't subscribe but have skimmed a couple issues. I thought it was populated by young immature flybros who thought they were too elite and cool to hang with anyone but themselves. Every fly and cast was "AWESOME' and every trip was "EPIC!" That's sub-human character to me.
 
Salmo_g said:
Huh; maybe I'm thinking about the wrong thing. I don't subscribe but have skimmed a couple issues. I thought it was populated by young immature flybros who thought they were too elite and cool to hang with anyone but themselves. Every fly and cast was "AWESOME' and every trip was "EPIC!" That's sub-human character to me.
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You should probably get out more.;)
 
Salmo_g said:
Huh; maybe I'm thinking about the wrong thing. I don't subscribe but have skimmed a couple issues. I thought it was populated by young immature flybros who thought they were too elite and cool to hang with anyone but themselves. Every fly and cast was "AWESOME' and every trip was "EPIC!" That's sub-human character to me.
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You forgot “Dude!"
 
Salmo_g said:
Huh; maybe I'm thinking about the wrong thing. I don't subscribe but have skimmed a couple issues. I thought it was populated by young immature flybros who thought they were too elite and cool to hang with anyone but themselves. Every fly and cast was "AWESOME' and every trip was "EPIC!" That's sub-human character to me.
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Cachanded said:
You forgot “Dude!"
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This struck me odd when I first read it and it still does as I am reading the current issue over the past week. It opens with the editor’s tribute to John Gierach, hardly a bro-brah topic. There’s a funny little article on fly destinations that support good napping. A piece on a new pilot national law to allow Non Profits like TU to work to clean up polluted mine discharges without accepting full liability for 100% cleanup. A bill about fur bans in CA and proposed in Denver and how it does it doesn’t affect fly tiers. That’s just the first few articles. Not an awesome or epic in sight, nor can I recall the magazine ever being like that, unless maybe mocking it a bit. I don’t know fellas, it’s almost like you’ve never really read the thing.
 
Back in 2010, Tom wrote a great article honoring his dog Trask. Kind of a celebration of Trask who had died earlier in the year. That article alone really helped me through the death of my dog Tango a couple of years later.
 
If you’re not ready to commit to the subscription, it may be possible to get digital copies from your local library. I will often download the most recent volume from the Portland city library for long flights. With a library card and an app called Libby I can access a huge catalog of books and magazines. Doesn’t have the same feel of leafing through one off the coffee table but it works for me. As for the Drake, I tend to enjoy about 50% of the articles and 100% of the photos.
 
Wasatchangler said:
If you’re not ready to commit to the subscription, it may be possible to get digital copies from your local library. I will often download the most recent volume from the Portland city library for long flights. With a library card and an app called Libby I can access a huge catalog of books and magazines. Doesn’t have the same feel of leafing through one off the coffee table but it works for me. As for the Drake, I tend to enjoy about 50% of the articles and 100% of the photos.
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Good tip.
 
mcswny said:
Good tip.
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Plus one for Multco Library and Libby. In addition to The Drake and Fly Fisherman and Angler’s Journal they have fishing magazines from the UK (Trout & Salmon) and New Zealand (Trout Fisher). Always fun to see what other places are up to, especially if it’s free.
 
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