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Jacob Sotak

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A 4wt Fiberglass Rod, Built the Long Way

It’s been nearly nine months since I started building a five-piece fiberglass travel rod at the small work bench in the corner of my office. I called the project Codename Bronco.

When I began last March, I had very little experience buildi...

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Real-Time Build: Wrapping a Snake Guide with Two Inlay Wraps

Wrapping the guides can be a tedious process. Naturally, I upped the ante with addition of two inlay wraps. The hope was to get two inlaid bands in the guide wrap that have no apparent beginning or end. The result? Well, judge for yourself....

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Quartermaster #005

Quartermaster posts usually begin the same way: I stumble across something on eBay or Facebook Marketplace, go down a rabbit hole, and discover something I think is worth sharing. Sometimes it ends with a reel on my desk that I didn’t know...

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The First Fish of the Rest of My Life

Photographs by Chris Wright // Canon AE-1, 35mm.

I have a complicated relationship with change.

As an angler, I relish change. On the water, a change in tactics can often improve my luck. I’ll change the fly, or where it sits in the water...

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DROP\SHOT: 8.12.25

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Location: West Yellowstone, Montana

I snapped this late ‘50s Ford F-Series truck on my iPhone last September during my fortieth birthday trip to Yellowstone National Park. Something about it felt compellin...

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    Jacob Sotak is a storyteller, writer, and editor with work spanning The New York Times, outdoor essays, and fiction. His story 'The Cerulean Trout' earned the 2023 Robert Travel Writing Award's honorable mention.

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