#76 Flyfishing Revolutions w/ Phil Monahan
In 1996, after several summers of guiding in Alaska and Yellowstone National Park, Phil Monahan landed his dream job as an editor at Outdoor...
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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...
In 1996, after several summers of guiding in Alaska and Yellowstone National Park, Phil Monahan landed his dream job as an editor at Outdoor...
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In this episode of The DrakeCast we return to The Lodge at 58* North for the second half of a week of fishing Alaska’s Bristol Bay. In betwe...
In this episode of The DrakeCast we head to The Lodge at 58* North for a week of fishing Alaska’s Bristol Bay. In between chasing trout, cha...
In this episode, we'll spend a day on the water with my friend Israel as he searches for his first musky. Along the way, we will chat with a...
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In May of 2025 I found myself in a boat with a trout guy in search of warmwater fish. In this episode of The DrakeCast we throw poppers with...
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Today, with the help of Drake magazine editor and founder, Tom Bie, we’ll be walking through what you can find in the Fall 2022 issue of the...
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A few months ago a family friend gave me a taxidermied brown trout that had been mounted in the 80s. When I went to the friend’s house to ge...
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 i...
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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 controve...
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...
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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 Ce...
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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 int...
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In this episode of The DrakeCast we traverse the mountains of North Georgia in search of the southern-most population of wild, native brook...
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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...
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 s...
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...
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 F...
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