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  • The Drake

    Get Well Soon

    Oct 17, 2020 3 minutes
    BY DAX MESSET

    BEFORE FIRST LIGHT hit any of the famed pools along Oregon’s North Umpqua on the morning of September 8th, the Archie Creek fire had already begun. I woke up at 5 a.m., when the power went out at the Dogwood Motel, and I opened the door to darkness and an eerie wind. It was blowing so strong it was snapping tree limbs—very unusual for a pre-dawn September morning on the North.

    It’s always dark when you’re heading out to fish on this river, but it was darker

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