The Drake

The Wildest Trout

HEN LEWIS and Clark discovered coastal cutthroat, they were using horse-hair leaders, wearing rain-drenched leather moccasins, and traveling with a bunch of aggravated pack mules. When I discovered coastal cutthroat more than 200 years later, I did it with a tungsten sink-tip, a pair of polyester waders, and a rental Jeep Renegade barreling down Juneau’s Glacier

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