The Drake Magazine Reviews

by Iflymt

Great magazine, terrible digital support.

by Algonquin Esquimaux

I'm just about fed up with wasting time trying to use my subscription. Downloads are unbelievably slow, they usually hang after a few pages. I tried deleting TheDrakeMagazine and reinstalled it, to no avail.
It should not require a genius to build an app allowing subscribers to read this magazine!

by Jdboes

I have just the digital subscription or what I thought was the subscription. The summer magazine is out yet I have yet to have access to it. Great magazine but don't bother with TheDrakeMagazine unless you want to read it a month late. If this changes I'll change my rating.

by GradyWhite2000

Love the magazine but TheDrakeMagazine is terrible. I have been charged the subscription rate monthly but it has not updated the offering since Winter last year.

by Wardovich

I can get a physical copy or read digital excerpts MONTHS before getting my digital copy. Now mid-February 2019 and still no Winter 2018 edition.

by Helix149

LOVE the magazine and these guys do great work BUT dont expect to get your digital copy before or even the same time your fly shop has their phisical copies. I hope this changes soon or I will have to cancel my subscription.. this quarter was better than last only a couple days behind.

by BWO8

Get off the river for 5 minutes and release the digital versions quicker. This is becoming sad. 5 star content and 1 star service.

by GoBeavs84

Not sure where some of these comments come from, no issues for me at all. But even if there were some, the content would be worth it! Its so easy to sit down and get happily lost in the stories found in The Drake. You can tell - well before the “by line” - that the authors love what they do. Mix in plenty of humor, amazing photography, insightful commentary and it all adds up to the BEST publication available for fly fishing enthusiasts! I LOVE The Drake, nothing else compares - you won’t regret it!

by Broken Tippet

Ive noticed the past three issues (summer, fall, and winter 2019) all appeared about the same time as the print issue in the fly shops, so it appears the Drake’s customer service has finally caught up to its great content.

by Saltwater Fly Fisher

7/12/19 Another update. The summer 2019 issue was available on TheDrakeMagazine yesterday, the same day that the print issue was available. As noted in my previous review below all problems with the delay in the availability of the issues in TheDrakeMagazine have been resolved. Excellent magazine!

5/29/19
The content and functionality of TheDrakeMagazine are fine. In fact the magazine itself is excellent.

As you might see from other reviews, there has been a history of the issues on TheDrakeMagazine not being available until much later than the print version. On April 1 of this year, I posted a review about the digital version lagging about half a year behind the print version and the lack of response to my emails about this. Here is an update of that review. I received a thoughtful email from the editor (Tom Bie) explaining the challenges they’ve had with the digital platform and their plans to improve. TheDrakeMagazine version is now caught up with the print version, and the most recent issue is available on TheDrakeMagazine . Based on this, I think the issue has been resolved, and I anticipate the digital version of the summer 2019 issue will be available the same time as the print issue. I’m glad to see the Drake Magazine step up and remedy this. Having a viable, environmentally friendly alternative to the paper version of the magazine is important to many fly fishers who are concerned about the environment.

by Craynyc

Best rag out there for fly fishing.

by Corbies

They have done a lot to get there digital issue, well issue, fixed. Digital issues resolved.

Great magazine and they are committed to the fish, the sport and the water.