Welcome to the Trout and Eagle Lodge
Thanks for checking out the new Blog for the Trout and Eagle Lodge in Newaygo Michigan. We are glad you stopped by, be sure to have a look around and if you have any questions please give us a call.
Step into a World of Warmth and Comfort
From the moment you open the front doors and step inside, you instantly feel like you're home.Just in time for Salmon and Trout season, this luxurious three story Finland built Honka log lodge is located on one of the Muskegon River's most scenic bluffs and just a stone's throw from the Gray Drake It's plush forest setting is perfect for small groups, Corporate outings, meetings, and culinary gourmet weekends.
Every exquisite detail tells a story at this table
Furnished with the unique Rocky Mountain Montana decor and art work. This gorgeous 5,000 square foot structure can sleep up to 14 guests at one time. It has 2 king size log bedroom suites, in addition to multiple log bedroom sleeping quarters.
Completely Furnished Suites for every Outdoorsman
In addition to all the other fine ammenities, we offer a state of the art gourmet appliance kitchen, large dinning area and comfortable leather couch lounge area with large HD plasma satellite visuals. All that and more makes this an ideal plush getaway for anyone.
Kick back after a day of Fishing and tell lies
The view from the two decks overlooking the river, adorned with beautiful Adirondack wooden rocking chairs, is spectacular! You will peer down with an eagle's view of the Muskegon's prime Trout, Salmon and Steelhead waters. So contact us today and Book your trip of a lifetime!
Gray Drake Lodge Offers Scenic Overlook
The view from the two decks overlooking the river, adorned with beautiful Adirondack wooden rocking chairs, is spectacular! You will peer down with an eagle's view of the Muskegon's prime Trout, Salmon and Steelhead waters. So contact us today and Book your trip of a lifetime!
Showing posts with label Big spring PA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big spring PA. Show all posts
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Looking at Epicurean Gourmet Trout Snobs- buon appetito !
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Sunday, May 3, 2015
BEAVER CREEK,MD SELECTIVITY CLINIC...SPRING CREEKS/TAILWATERS
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Matthew Supinski's Gray Drake/Selectivity/Nexus Blog
BEAVER CREEK
CUMBERLAND VALLEY'S NEWEST RESTORED FLY FISHING HALLMARK
Many do not know that Beaver Creek was one of the first 'FLIES-ONLY' streams in the country back in the 1930's. Having had hatchery effluent problems, habitat degradation and siltation problems over the decades since hurricane Agnes came through in the 70's. Beaver
Creek is now back! Thanks to the help of TU/FFF, Watershed Council, Chesapeake Watershed grant money and the creeks Watershed council and Maryland DNR, wild browns are once again thriving along with fat healthy rainbows. When I lived in Washington, DC for a decade back in my hotel executive days, I fished Beaver Creek almost weekly and worked with the biologists to establish wild brown trout- 30 years later it is now a success!
Join the Author and guide for an intimate in-depth, two day clinic- Saturday and Sunday, May 16th/17th. Learn to crack the code of the Selectivity stages and understand Cumberland Valley limestone spring creek/tailwater trout -like the Beaver and Savage River offers. Having guided tailwaters and spring creeks for over 28 years, I am well familiar with these fussy fisheries.
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Most importantly , learn and understand my views on diagnostics for ' PREDATOR FORAGING PROFILES (PFP ),-( in my new upcoming Fly Fisherman Magazine article), which will make many of my observations of spring creek and tailwater trout foraging more obvious and understood to properly present the right offering and style.
Two days of classroom clinics, learning to tie some new scud/crustacea patterns, blue-winged olives/ wiggle nymphs, getting ready for the sulphur hatch emergers, and the final delectables of spring creek and tailwater trout!- midges/chironomidae, and terrestrials.
Both days will revolve heavily on 'boots in water', on-stream instruction- study trout behavior, learn entomology, read 'taking water based on PFP, and understand perfect leviathan big brown holding water for sculpinating -sometimes it is so bloody obvious we walk right past it!!!.
Learning to use your fly rod arsenal by incorporating short and tucked modified single handed spey casts in the tight brush and tree cover that small streams command- ESPECIALLY BEAVER!!!- attention to when presentation perfection- upstream/downstream- when to apply them- based on PFP, is all part of the gig !
Saturday night is an intimate dinner and cocktail hour to discuss comments/progress/ ..whatever is on your mind!- with a guest speaker from the Maryland DNR, and Watershed Council.
I am embarking on a series of 'Selectivity Clinics' nationwide and next year in Europe- my homeland!
Hope to see you!
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any questions, concerns that 'you are novices' is not a problem- the gig is all about learning!- fly fishing is a complete empirical laboratory, where your minds are allowed to wonder and have fun!
Saturday, January 7, 2012
WINTER TO SPRING!......RED CRIMSON BUCKS AND CHROME HENS....AND BIG SPRING,,PA. BROOKIES AND BOWS!
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Matthew Supinski's Gray Drake/Selectivity/Nexus Blog
Seriously, this is another global climate change snafu and we shall see what winter will bring.
The Muskegon continues to fish 'excellent"- lots of fresh chrome hens and red crimson cheeked bucks. Some nice lake-run browns are starting to show. Trout are on tiny scuds, midge and caddis larvae and micro brassies...#18-22's.....water at 36F.....perfect for winter steelheading.
( the new and improved Big Spring.....looks like the days of Marinaro in the 40's...at least that is how it was described)
(various scuds for the day)
( Big Spring Hog Rainbow)
Had a chance to fish my favorite spring creek in the hallowed limestone country of Pennsylvania's Cumberland Valley- the beloved Big Spring Run. The new stream improvement work done by T.U/PB&FC/WATERSHED COUNCIL there has created wonders...lots of wild big rainbows and brookies...BUT!!!...lots of crowds like the old "ditch days back in the 80's". The PA rainbows are late fall, winter sapwners and were digging gravel along the newly installed deflector dams. It was nice to see fish in areas that were void for decades.If you can get out, come and get a winter steelhead/trout fix..! in the coming weeks....and days are filling upo quick for spring!
Cheers!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
WELCOME 2011...........AND LET IT SNOW!!!
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Matthew Supinski's Gray Drake/Selectivity/Nexus Blog
( the deep crimson cheeks of winter males are glowing this time of year!)
( our favorite time of year- winter!- Tony Gates of radio fame with a nice hen from last winter)
( Winter steelheaders box- fun stuff)
( Loch Leven wild strain Letort Spring brown on the Grim Reaper sculpin)
( Vince Marinaro's meadow in the Letort)
( lake-run brown time is here!)Hope all had a great and happy holiday season! Sorry for the long delay in posting, but our family went back to the east coast to visit our families and I got a chance to fish the Letort Spring Run on New Years eve and day. That has been a tradition for as long as I could remember. It is a magnificent limestone spring creek in Pennsylvania's Cumberland valley with perhaps the most intelligent and skittish wild brown trout in the world! I did manage a nice 16 incher on my Grim Reaper sculpin after many hours and miles of walking the cow pasture spring. These are original descendants of the Loch Leven Scottish and German browns brought here in the late 1800's( watch for my You Tube video at my "flyfishingmichigan" You Tube channel to be out in the next week on the limestone spring creeks)
As for now , we are getting much needed snow pack( we are up to a whopping 6 inches), and the river has bounced up very nicely to 1,870 cfs-this is normal or slightly below normal but is higher than we have seen since perhaps spring( we are also getting the Hardy Dam draw down of water effective Jan 1). This will bring in much desired fresh chrome steelhead and lake- run browns which really get going around January and February on the Muskegon.
Winter is our favorite time of year to steelhead and lake-run fish.............solitude and beautiful winter scenery!
Check out or winter steelheading specials and our culinary winter weekend getaways at our graydrake.com web site.
We are now booking prime dates for spring steelhead....don't wait if you have dates in mind!- we'ld love to see you this spring !
Monday, April 12, 2010
EVENING SOIREE...PART DEUX.....LE FAT BASTARD!!
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(Monseuires- Le Fat Bastard!!!!!!!!!!)
( This river is just not about steelhead and salmon- it's about trout....BABY-------YEAH!..........Austin?)In an ongoing attempt to decompress from a day of steelhead guiding and boat traffic, I am allowed to fish one hour at 5.pm. The black stone fly hatches have been tremendous as I originally stated in my earlier blogs. Each soir, In a pool (only Todd and a select others) will know, there are "big fat bastards" rising to the black stones. BUT........THEY ARE VERY....VERY SELECTIVE TROUT!
One must approach with caution, sit and smoke a cigar, sip a micro-brew and wait for a multi- feeder- every one to two minutes!
This is the essence of fly fishing.the wait ....the desire ...the yearning and the conquistador!!!!!!!!!
"Fat bastard" was his name........a brown trout of 17 inches. His mouth was choked with black stone egg layers . His head was tiny, his girth "massive' and she was the ultimate poster child for Mc Donalds and Wendy's!!!!!!!
Fat is awesome, ....healthy in the trout world-kinda Reubenesque in the two legger world..........lol-keep in mind these last years stockers averaged an inch a month growth rate due to the new caddis July, August and September Fishery!!!
But , come Wednesday, I'm puttin those dudes on a size #26 midge diet.
Only seen growth rates on trout in a short period of time on the Big Spring, in the 'heyday' in the 80's in PA.- or on Loch Leven Scottish Browns.
