Blog Entries for Tom Bie http://www.drakemag.com Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:55:17 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.drakemag.com/new_blog_testing/49.html <p><img style="padding: 4px 10px 10px 4px" src="images/blog/63/permitRelease.jpg" alt="permitRelease.jpg" width="240" align="left" /> </p><p>One of the most common saltwater fishing questions that I get asked or that appears on The Drake message board is some variation of, &quot;I have to go to some stupid/gay/waste-of-time/soon-to-be-divorced-anyway&nbsp; wedding/business conference/family reunion down in Cancun. I&#39;m</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img style="padding: 4px 10px 10px 4px" src="images/blo [...] Tom Bie http://www.drakemag.com/new_blog_testing/7.html <img style="width: 200px; height: 137px; border:2px solid #666;" class="jce_tooltip" src="images/blog/opener.jpg" alt="opener.jpg" title="opener.jpg" width="200" height="137" /> <br/><br/><p><br/>If I've had better domestic fishing trips, I can't remember them. Blitzing Albies, fish from the beach, pool and locol luches at the BT, fantastic food and one questionable movie night. Others have made posts on the forum, but now, you get to the REST of the story...&nbsp;<br/></p><br/><br/><p><br/>&nbsp;k:<br/></p><br/><p><br/>This [...] Tom Bie http://www.drakemag.com/new_blog_testing/14.html <p><br/><img style="margin: 5px; float: right" class="jce_tooltip" src="images/blog/fhn5.jpg" alt="fhn5.jpg" title="fhn5.jpg" width="217" height="266" /><br/></p><br/><p><br/><br/>1) Because there's just something about a dude wearing camo, holding a bloody bear carcass. (Headline inside: &quot;Do Goldilocks a Favor.&quot;) Sure, you might not ask him to take your SATs for you, but when your gutless little hippy car slides off the road in a snowstorm, guarantee this dude rolls up in an F350 and pulls your pans [...] Tom Bie http://www.drakemag.com/new_blog_testing/23.html <img src="images/blog/bighorn.jpg" alt="bighorn.jpg" title="bighorn.jpg" width="200px" height="150px" /><p><br/>I'm sick of waiting for Bie to make a new blog post. He's been fighting that shark for like two months. So here's a quick rundown since July, like Berman's Fastest Three Minutes: <br/></p><br/><p><br/>Here's the campsite where summer really got rolling. This is back in<br/>July, at the Drake Bake just south of Bozeman, Montana, shortly after<br/>Nemo made his shark fishing post. This was my favorite tri [...] Tom Bie http://www.drakemag.com/new_blog_testing/26.html <br/><img src="/images/blog/Biebent_sm.jpg" alt="" /><br/><br/><p><br/>I'm fried. Fighting butt buried deep in my belly, my left hand bends backwards on the foregrip of a 12-weight while my right hand palms the bottom of a Tibor, trying desperately to slow the spinning. The 80-pound blue shark at the end of my line is heading deep for another run (again), and I saw my backing knot disappear into the depths a long time ago. <br/></p><br/><br/><img src="/images/blog/Biebent.jpg" alt="" /><br/><br/><p><br/>I'm fried. Fighting b [...] Tom Bie http://www.drakemag.com/new_blog_testing/29.html <p>by Tom Bie</p><br/><img src="/images/blog/bwo_small.jpg" alt="bwo's" /><br/><p>Blue-winged olives are sometimes called “drab”—defined by Webster as “monotonous” or “dull.” But I think that’s a wholly inappropriate term. Winter is monotonous. Waiting for bugs is monotonous. Frozen lakes and rivers are monotonous. Bluewings are the bridge leading away from monotony, not toward it—they’re almost always...</p><br/><p>by Tom Bie</p><br/><img src="/images/blog/bwo_large.jpg" alt="bwo's" /><br/><p>Blue-winged oliv [...] Tom Bie