My personal pipe dream

Has been stolen by someone else. I’ve found The Drake, a fishing magazine for folks who really like to fish, and who can’t care too much for wasting cash. It comes out once a year, apparently, and features such wondrous stuff as

“I never thought I’d become a fishing writer,” (John Gierach) says—a rather surprising statement coming from one of the most successful fishing writers of all time. “I thought I’d be a poet or a novelist or something. I started writing about fishing because I was doing a lot of fishing anyway and I figured, ‘Hey, why not do this?’

The 2003 (I just thought deux mille trois) issue has PJ O’Rourke, and a bunch of vignettes that don’t feature any high dollar gear or anything except for love of the water (an exhortation in 52 weeks of fishing suggests going kayaking or rafting during the spring runoff, since in the end it’s not about the fish, it’s about rocks, water, and fresh air), and appreciation of fisher(folk) and fish.

Posted by jank at December 7, 2003 5:53 PM