2014 Spring Contents

Drake 2014 Spring Issue

    Features

  • Silver Tiger Taimen
    Exploring Russia's Koppi River watershed for seductive, sea-going, Sakhalin taimen.
    By Ryan Peterson. Photos by John Sherman
  • Shop Dogs
    Meet the greeting committee.
    By Stephen Schwartz
  • Starting Out
    With Mother's Day and Father's Day right around the corner, we share a few stories on the people who taught us to fish.
    By Richard Bach, Reid Bryant, and Andrew Stoehr
  • The Lake Trout Issue
    Many people have strong, passionate feelings about native vs. introduced species. Especially in Yellowstone National Park.
    By Sarah Grigg, Carter Andrews, and Tom Bie

    • Departments

  • Page Six Chix
    Tats, a jack, and a smallmouth? What's not to love?
  • Put-in
    On regionalism and “smuggling”
  • Rises
    More Skeena feedback, and some really sweet skis
  • Tailwater Weekend
    Oregon's Crooked River is more romantic than Paris
    By Chester Allen
  • Scuddlebutt
    Northwest steelhead drama, Clyde heads east, scotch tasting, California's Klamath, weed-buyer's guide, Connecticut's survivor-strain browns, Kickstarter fundraising, Henry's Fork Anglers, pike fishing in Maine, and more Montana access issues
  • Tippets
    A Driftless story, despondent steelheading, spring stripers, Michigan by moonlight, a bonefish poem, a really nice rooster, fab fallfish, and ‘Glades tarpon
  • Redspread
    St. Augustine, Florida: more redfish, fewer yankees
    By Mike Hodge
  • Passport
    Hanging with a holy man
    By Kym Goldsworthy
  • Bugs
    Yellow Sally of the South
    By Zach Matthews
  • City Limits
    A morning commute in Chicago
    By Timothy Adkins
  • Rod Holders
    Igor Linda, flyfishing's man in Poland
    By Dave Karczynski
  • Backcountry
    Colorado's Indian Peaks Wilderness Area
    By Steven Schweitzer
  • Permit Page
    I'm so much better than you are.
    By Jason Houston
Wild vs. Hatchery Steelhead

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2014 Spring Issue

Oregon and Washington face their future

The state fish and game departments for Washington and Oregon both face a major dilemma: how to adequately protect what remains of their wild steelhead, while also continuing to produce hatchery steelhead for the many anglers who like to bring one home for dinner.