Podcasts by The DrakeCast - A Fly Fishing Podcast
For those who fish, this is the DrakeCast, a new flyfishing podcast. We're an audio supplement to the Drake Magazine and a voice for flyfishing around the world. Each Friday, we bring you a story - some funny, some serious. We'll be fishing for steelhead on the Pere Marquette, brook trout on small creeks, high mountain cutthroats, salmon galore, plus a tons of other species and places.
Check us out at The Drake Magazine's website http://www.drakemag.com/drakecast.html
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#58 Fall 2021 Magazine Preview from 2021-11-29T11:00:34
Today, with the help of Drake magazine editor and founder, Tom Bie, we’ll be walking through what you can expect from the coming Fall 2021 issue of the Drake. If you’re hearing this, it means you s...
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#57 Oregon's South Coast - Steelhead Ch. 3 from 2021-10-10T17:22:17
As you’ll see in the title, this is a continuation of the Steelhead miniseries that started years ago - Chapter 3 to be exact. And while I recognize that the vast majority of anglers will never set...
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#56 The Club from 2021-08-13T10:00:46
When the idea for this podcast was first tossed around, we knew we wanted it to be an extension of the Drake Magazine - and one of the ways we envisioned doing so was by having magazine contributor...
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#55 Untouched Nature - Steelhead Ch. 2 from 2021-07-12T10:00:22
It’s been a while, but as of right now, despite the fact that no one was asking for it, The DrakeCast is back for a little bit. We’ve got six episodes slated for release between now and the end of ...
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#54 The Baiter & The Swinger - Steelhead Ch. 1 from 2019-09-26T10:05:05
In this episode of the DrakeCast we meet two characters with similar pasts who have ended up in very different places. They both love steelhead, but in very different ways. We'll also hear from Tro...
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#54 Steelhead Ch. 1: The Baiter & The Swinger from 2019-09-26T10:05:05
In this episode of the DrakeCast we meet two characters with similar pasts who have ended up in very different places. They both love steelhead, but in very different ways. We'll also hear from Tro...
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#53 Dorian's Wake from 2019-09-10T12:25:55
Hurricane Dorian carved a scar through the soul of the Bahamas. Hear about this bonefish paradise before, during, and after the storm. In this episode we profile a lifelong Bahamian guide, talk to ...
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#52 Mosquitos & Char from 2019-02-14T10:02:05
Ok folks, welcome back to the drakecast. This week, we have a different sort of episode for ya. Rather than taking a dive into some controversial topic, we're going to feature Dave Zoby reading his...
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#51 Rally For Dallys on The White from 2019-01-23T09:00:13
This episode of the DrakeCast takes a deep dive into the seedy underworld of a fishy religion in the Ozarks. Think Deliverance but with john boats instead of canoes. And at the center of this aquat...
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#50 Mules, Music & Monkeys: The Howler Bros. History from 2018-11-16T10:00:18
After a brief hiatus, The DrakeCast is back. This episode aims to answer one question: How did a band of fishing and surfing bums living in Virginia create an iconic Texan brand? To help tell this ...
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#49 Spawn and On and On from 2018-10-04T08:00:09
Today, we’re joined by Ben Sittig (IG: @carelessethiopian) to talk about how we interact with fish engaged in pre-coital preparations; if we’re going to interrupt trout as they get ready to get bus...
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#48 Beyond the Fish: Fires & Hurricanes from 2018-09-19T10:00:31
This episode of the DrakeCast tracks the effects of several natural disasters that have struck the Eastern United States in the past few years. After starting with the Sevier Country Fire that ripp...
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#47 A Day in the Life of an Alaskan Fishing Guide from 2018-09-11T07:00:36
Head up to the wilds of Kodiak Island to follow fishing guide Tyler Steffens as he battles bears, noseeums, and low water in search of the coveted Silver Salmon.
This episode of the DrakeCast i...
#46 Bonefish Part II from 2018-08-27T08:00:18
In this episode we head back to the clear blue waters of Grand Bahama in search of the ghost of the flats. If you tuned in last week, you know that we encountered a few bonefish, and many people cr...
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#45 Bonefish on the Brain from 2018-08-17T07:00:38
In today's audio story, we scan the flats of Grand Bahama in search of a single species: Bonefish. Listen to veteran East End Lodge guide Cecil Leathan pole experienced angler Bjorn Stromsness (of ...
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#44 Midwestern Smallmouth Bass from 2018-08-09T07:00:05
In this episode of the DrakeCast we float down Wisconsin's Chippewa River in search of Midwestern, river-dwelling smallmouth bass. But what do you do if the fish just aren’t biting like they normal...
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#43 America's Fish: Shad on the Potomac from 2018-07-30T08:00:14
Today, we row our way out into Fletchers Cove on Washington DC's Potomac River in search of the the illusive American Shad. While we’re out there, we’ll hear about the historic importance of this f...
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#42 SoCal Bassin' from 2018-07-23T08:00:24
This episode is a two-fer. We'll start just south of LA where we meet Captain Vaughn Podmore. Under his knowledgeable direction, we head into Long Beach Harbor in search of celebrities and various...
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Bonus Episode: Dancing with Death on The Bighorn from 2018-07-18T07:00:05
Last week, in Episode #41 of The DrakeCast, we went through the contents of the Summer 2018 Issue of The Drake Magazine. But we ran a little short on time and weren’t able to fit in a reading by on...
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#41 Summer 2018: Two Decades of The Drake w/ Tom Bie from 2018-07-13T07:00:44
Roughly a week ago the Summer 2018 issue of the Drake Magazine hit fly shop shelves and mailboxes across the country. This episode, like others that have come before, is going to take a brief peak ...
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#40 What Makes a Trophy? Wild Trout in North Georgia w/ Zach Matthews from 2018-06-29T07:00:14
In this episode of The DrakeCast we traverse the mountains of North Georgia in search of the southern-most population of wild, native brook trout in the world. But while we’re at it, we’ll also tak...
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#39 Father's Day: David, Chuck & Grady Ragan from 2018-06-17T07:00:14
Before Chuck Ragan was a musician (Hot Water Music) or a father or a fishing guide (crflyfishing.com), he was a son. We’ll hear about the highs and lows of Chuck’s relationship with his father, an...
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#38 Stripers on Lake Hartwell from 2018-06-08T12:35:11
Head on down to South Carolina with us in search of striped bass. While we were down there we thought about eating a couple of them until we learned a few disturbing facts...
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#37: Mosquito Lagoon Redfish Reckoning from 2018-05-30T09:00:02
Mosquito Lagoon sits on Florida's East Coast and is known as the redfish capitol of the world. We made a visit to these hallowed waters to see what all the hubbub is about. While poling around the ...
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#36 Tarpon in the Keys from 2018-05-21T10:00:12
The idea for this story initially came up about a year ago when I (and 400,000 other people), stumbled across the movie "120 Days." The film follows David Mangum as he spends a third of his year ch...
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#35: Road Trip 3, Part III: Night Bite on the White & Other Goodies from 2018-05-11T15:02:03
In the previous episodes of the podcast we introduced the Road Trip Miniseries. In chapter 1 we met the road crew for the 2018 Fly Fishing Film Tour and revisited their stops between Boulder, Color...
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#34 The Road Trip, Part II: Steelhead from 2018-05-02T01:31:37
In the previous episode of the podcast we started a new miniseries that we're calling The Road Trip. In chapter 1 we met the road crew for the 2018 Fly Fishing Film Tour and revisited their stops b...
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#33 The Road Trip, Part 1 from 2018-04-22T15:50:15
In this episode of The DrakeCast we hear about the first few weeks of the Fly Fishing Film Tour's trip across the country. With the help of Paul Nicoletti and Rex Messing, listeners travel with the...
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#32 New Fishing Music & Hurricane Harvey Update from 2018-04-11T20:19:18
Way back in June of 2017 we released the first episode of The DrakeCast, which featured the musician Sean Carey. He told us about his living room tours across the country that were more or less an ...
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#31 The Drake Spring 2018 Preview with Tom Bie from 2018-03-27T02:21:12
Here is what you can expect from the Spring Issue of The Drake: Wisconsin smallies, Montana cutties, Bolivian dorado, Idaho damselflies, Utah tailwaters, Massachusetts Stripers, Alaska Steelhead, d...
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#30 Hoppers & Droppers: The Story Behind Hank Patterson from 2018-03-11T10:49:46
Nearly six years ago a video popped up on Youtube featuring the ramblings of the self-proclaimed expert flyfishing guide, Hank Patterson. The video asserted the existence of “cuttyrainbrowns,” misq...
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#29 The Bighorn Revisited from 2018-02-22T06:27:06
This episode of The DrakeCast takes a deeper dive into the topic we covered in the last episode; #28 Big & Horny in Montana.
Right after that story hit the interwebs, we received a call from so...
#28 Montana's Bighorn from 2018-02-05T15:55:16
Montana’s Bighorn River is known throughout the world as a blue-ribbon trout stream. The fishery below Yellowtail Dam holds some of the most robust tour-per-mile numbers in the nation. But in the l...
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#27 Fish on the Brain + The DrakeCast: A Collaboration from 2018-01-19T06:43:08
Last week, we had a chance to catch up with Tim Evans. He's a salesman that lives in Casper, Wyoming but you most likely to know him as the man behind the Fish on the Brain podcast.
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#26 Heavy Metal Flyfishing Through the Ice from 2018-01-12T08:28:13
A few weeks ago, I found myself in Duluth, Minnesota and the forecast was rather dicey. As you probably know, it’s pretty darn difficult to flyfish when it’s -20 degrees outside. But with the help...
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#25 Horseshoes & Carp Grenades from 2018-01-05T05:19:54
Carp aren't native to the US, but at this point, they're here to stay. This episode follows the meteoric rise of the nation's number one trashfish and how folks with flyrods began targetting them. ...
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#24 The Drake, Winter 2017 Preview feat. Tom Bie, Dave Karczynski & Michael Graybrook from 2017-12-19T01:46:08
In this episode of The DrakeCast, we get a quick preview of the Winter 2017 issue of the Drake Magazine. Right off the bat we hear Drake Editor, Tom Bie, tell us about his favorite parts of the rec...
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#23 Musky with a Y from 2017-12-08T23:11:51
This week we head to the rivers of Northern Wisconsin in search of the illusive River Nazi. While blindly casting for these toothy critters, we talk to a few folks about the history of musky fishin...
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#22 A River Runs Near It from 2017-12-01T04:53:07
In the early 1970s, Don Wisner learned how to flyfish. It was around this time that his life began to parallel a certain flyfishing story. When Don's son, Stephen, came of age, the two spent hours ...
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#21 Armistice Day from 2017-11-24T17:07:58
This week, we have a story of tradition and remembrance, and it’s actually connected to an episode that we put out a few months ago called Dresses & Can Cans.
If you haven’t heard this st...
#20 The DrakeCast Presents: Dylan Tomine & The Fly Tapes from 2017-11-10T17:06:34
This week's episode of The DrakeCast features another flyfishing podcast that has recently hit the airwaves.
Jason Rolfe is a guide at Emerald Water Anglers in Washington State, but when he's ...
#19 Crossroads: Social Media & Flyfishing from 2017-11-03T02:56:11
A lot of people claim social media has killed flyfishing. But has it? In this episode of The DrakeCast we chat with parties on both sides of the divide as we suss out the positive and negative impa...
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#18 The Mighty Colorado River from 2017-10-30T01:40:52
In episode #7 of The DrakeCast, we heard about the threatened Menominee River on the border between Michigan's UP and Wisconsin. This river had unfortunately found itself on American River's list o...
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#17 Jeremy Wade's Disappearing River Monsters from 2017-10-20T03:30:53
Jeremy Wade, host of Animal Planet's "River Monsters," is one of the more famous fisherfolks in the industry today. I personally always saw the guy as a globe-trotting Brit who believes every fish ...
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#16 Denver's Dirty Secret / A Yellowstone River Retrospective from 2017-10-13T04:03:54
This week we travel back to the United States.
In the first part of the episode, we visit a fishy hideout in the suburbs of Denver. It's there that we meet Peter Stitcher, the owner of Ascent ...
#15 EuroTrip Ch. 3 - Iceland from 2017-10-06T07:05:59
Sorry for the delay folks, but The DrakeCast is back! In this episode we continue our EuroTrip to yet another island with great fishing - Iceland. Once again, we'd be targeting Atlantic salmon, but...
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#14 EuroTrip Ch. 2 - The Faroe Islands from 2017-09-16T05:05:03
This week's episode of The DrakeCast takes us to The Faroe Islands, which is a small archipelago in the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland. I was there to experience the cultu...
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#13 EuroTrip Ch. 1 - Ireland from 2017-09-08T21:42:09
"I've been fly fishing since I was a wee little grasshopper. Hell of a long time with the fly. To me, the only way to catch a fish really is on the fly. Spinner? Not that exciting. One salmon on th...
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#12 Dresses & Can Cans from 2017-09-01T06:41:42
"My sister and my mother were not interested in fishing. So it was my dad and your dad and the boys. And we’d have brandy when we’d catch a fish. My dad would open the big green tackle box and brin...
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#11 Big Streamers, Bigger Fish from 2017-08-25T05:39:17
"We’re chasing trophy fish and it’s hard. It shouldn’t be easy. It will kick your ass. It’s physical. Big flies hurt more when they go into you and its covering miles and miles of water. But you kn...
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#10 Stream Implants from 2017-08-18T05:18:26
"I really think it's important to show the public how these streams can come back so well if we just give them a chance and make them stable and design them correctly. If you build it right, the wi...
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#9 Kaleidoscope Of LSD: Sudan from 2017-08-11T06:00:59
"When I was a kid, I dreamed about what it really meant to push the envelope of flyfishing. For me it was muskies. That’s what I experienced that busted up tackle and caused me to rethink how I did...
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#8 All Things Salmonid from 2017-07-28T12:13:58
I met James Thull in a stuffy room on the second floor of Montana State University’s library. Shaved head, goatee, Gandhi glasses--he looks as though he just stepped off the set of a white-washed k...
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#7 The Garden Of Eden from 2017-07-21T08:23:22
The DrakeCast is a flyfishing podcast put together by the folks behind The Drake magazine.
Many thanks to our friends at Yellow Dog Flyfishing Advenutres and Scott Fly Rods for their conti...
#6 Fishin' In The Dark from 2017-07-14T05:19:34
Episode #6 of The Drake Magazine's new flyfishing podcast follows a pack of good dudes through the mosquito-laden farm fields of the upper midwest as they search for fun times and fishes. Along the...
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#5 Death Of A Tailwater from 2017-07-07T05:59:51
The DrakeCast is a flyfishing podcast produced by the folks at The Drake Magazine. This episode takes us to the great state of Kentucky where we look at our nation's aging infrastructure. We talk t...
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#4 Ride with Clyde/The Big Year from 2017-06-30T06:02:15
The DrakeCast is a flyfishing podcast brought to you by the folks behind The Drake Magazine.
This episode of the podcast introduces our listeners to the legendary Clyde - The Drake Magazi...
#3 Heads On Sticks from 2017-06-23T05:00:57
The DrakeCast is a flyfishing podcast produced by the folks at The Drake Magazine. Episode #3 introduces us to Donnie Richards as he takes us down Michigan's Pere Marquette River in search of the i...
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#2 Fire On The Mountain from 2017-06-16T04:09:56
From the folks who bring you The Drake Magazine, here's a new flyfishing podcast for your listening pleasure. Episode #2 of The DrakeCast tracks the effects of the Sevier Country Fire that ripped t...
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#1 S. Carey from 2017-06-14T18:40:40
Introducing The DrakeCast, a new flyfishing podcast produced by the folks at The Drake Magazine. Episode #1 of The DrakeCast follows the band S. Carey through the streams and backwoods bars of Nort...
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