"Size does matter!"...Selectivity/Nexus Blog (Pandemic Vol:II )

(This fat 18 inch "nerve-racking" surface feeding brownie gave me selectivity presentation fits for two consecutive days- CASE SOLVED AND CLOSED:yesterday afternoon 5:37 PM- who's next!) 

In my last birthday Facebook post I told you about the two frustrating hours I had in a place on the Muskegon last Friday called "the House of Pain". It's a "love/hate " relationship place I named and talk about in both my Selectivity and Nexus books. Its a mile long broad/spring creek-like section of flats on the river with lots of vegetation and shallow runs just like a giant Henry's Fork. Here the trout have plenty of mileage to be ultra-selective/reflective like they can be on the flats of the Delaware in the Catskills or Missouri .

Since  the early 90's when I first moved to Michigan, these flats have been a source of much anguish that have resulted in more perfect fly designs and improved  tail water dry fly techniques. ( my late friend Carl Richards spent almost every evening during the super complicated caddis hatches here of July through September stalking, photographing and scrolling notes and sketches on caddis hatches , which resulted into his master work  " Super Caddis Hatches"- Amato Books. During that processs, I once found him asleep in his car one morning totally covered in caddis sketches as I started my guide trip and banged on the window to see if he was still alive!-such was his passion-God bless his soul!) 

 ( The first of two nice brownies yesterday-a 14 incher  that reconfirmed text book presentation templates)

So to say I am one that will relish and love the frustrating refusals and conundrum of trout flipping you the bird!,, as they scoff at your dry fly is an understatement and demented confessional for the underlying reason why I wrote Selectivity!- if it was easy like bass fishing I probably would take up golf and  wouldn't  go to the ends of the earth to chase the last trutta swimming . 

So back to last Friday, the two hours of the hatch was heavy with hundreds of early black stone fly females ova-positing on the surface and swarms of bazillion clusters of black midges . The half dozen or so nice browns I scouted and stalked totally refused ( some of the refusals were slashing surface bursts at the last minute when I lifted to set the hook and nothing was there!)the hundred plus presentation of my CDC stone I threw at them ( all perfect drag free/long drifts and the same pattern that caught the 20 incher there a few days earlier. I also noticed midge clusters being gulped ( occasionally but far less frequently than the desired big stonefly meaty)  between larger stone fly confirmed " eats" while I sat and observed. 

The water I was fishing was at least 5 feet deep, moving fast past a large fallen tree sweeper which created a 15 yard long calm back eddy where the browns would take up their daily afternoon feeding stations- each was fish was spatial niche separated in perfect trutta dominance fashion ( niches are discussed in detail in my Nexus book) I anchored my jet as close as possible, since the faster water swept my fly line quickly from the placid water that the fish fed in. So to say I was kneeling in my jet/drift boat was accurate- no standing casting!, and long 10 minute pauses between casting sessions to give the fish a chance to feed in regular intervals

So!...Deja Vu crept in yesterday reminding me of Friday and quickly set in after a half hour of refusals as I watched stonefly after stone get gulped by the browns...something is really wrong here. I have a 18 foot leader, with 4 feet of 4x, the same deadly CDC stone I had that caught the 20 inch brown there- same set up!-wtf! My casts were perfect puddle casts with upstream mending giving my dry a long drag free float - as I'm pulling my gray hair out in frustration as I watched one adult after another get gulped and mine refused. THAT'S IT!..I'm going to change something. 

One of the biggest obstacles to " thinking outside the box" is being older and confident in what you are throwing and being a little advanced in the old " knows enough to be dangerous" category- knowledge is not always liberating my friends, especially if a 20 inch brown loved the same set up I was throwing. In my stodgy author stubbornness I saw nothing wrong with my flies or presentation until I took a serious look at them, with a pragmatic " Selectivity-step-by-step" unbiased approach. 

First thing was to look at conditions. It was pure blue sky sunshine like the day the big brown took the fly, but the water has dropped considerably with less CFS flow and cleared up substantially -check 1!. There were just as many naturals on the surface so hatch intensity was the same -check 2. Since I was using 4x in the heavier flows, I did the customary thing to do, drop down in size and went to 5x -check 3. And to triple insure that what I was doing had no 'unseen drag", I lengthened tippet from 4 feet to 7 feet-check 4. But checkpoint 5-that!,  was the age old template that never changes- fly size-check 5 was as the ultimate  " THAT'S A BINGO", as Col. Hans Landa ( Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Bastards) proclaimed enthusiastically.

( The one on the right was the new lethal killer, the left was the old one one I clung to, and rightfully so by the brown I caught on it)

Looking at both flies , to the untrained eye they look pretty much the same.  But obviously they weren't to the eye of these extremely selective Muskegon browns that were were refusing the one on the left for hours.In my Selectivity book I talk about the "4 SYSTEMS GO" approach to a selective/reflective view of a dry from below the surface. The laws of refraction enter into the first law, as the trout saw the bulky wings triangular and horizontal, rather than the true look of vertical drumming wings on the right. The left stone was on a true #12 wide-gap dry fly hook, with a very thick clump of dark dun CDC that were stiff and tent-like in from below silhouette ( what the browns were seeing). So I changed to the one on the right ( go smaller fly template of traditional selectivity laws) It was on a Daiichi 1270 curved hook -#16, and used light dun "spiked and sparser" CDC. The thought was that the light dun would transmit the vertical wing fluttering better that a a flat darker splayed v-shaped wing profile like a caddis for instance . Using Lochsa ( Loon) CDC fly floatant to spike the wings up even more, the rest ladies and gentlemen is now a glorious selectivity history and lesson learned. 

3RD CAST! ...a nice fat 14 incher slammed it !...( one of the ones that was giving me the finger for over 3 hours. Landed it!...5 th cast later, the fat 18 incher slammed it and went ballistic in the frozen waters. 

(This!, is the PERFECT TIE)

Day over. I won. Life is good. Victory is sweet. Never give up. "always expand your mind". Ignorance = same as too much knowledge and being stodgy can be your biggest detriments  

CASE CLOSED

Matt Supinski

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Posted in: Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus , dry fly , early black stones , gray drake lodge , Matt Supinski Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus book , michigan fly fishing , Michigan hatches , selective trout

Next time you complain about wind!

                                           ( image by Jessica DeLorenzo- Tierra del Fuego)

Click on Vimeo link for  video

https://venturingangler.com/2017/11/17/video-fly-fishing-for-brown-trout-in-the-surf-2/

"The more we get to know Salmo trutta in their mysterious and ever changing selectivity modes , the more we realize we don't know anything about them" Supinski ( The Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus (Skyhorse Publishing 2018)

This awesome Vimeo by Austin Trayser shared by the outstanding Venturing Angler page put out by Tim Harden ( Tim, I love your stuff btw!), shows pretty unusual trutta PFP behavior (predator foraging profiles)... And to think we bitch about a slight zephyr wind!
I've always been firmly convinced the lateral line sound vibration detection and neuromasts consisting of sensory cells, which detect water movement by deflection of cilia,and associated support and mantle cells on brown trout ( also on salar-Atlantic salmon), were freaked out by waves from boats, terrible waking wading habits, sloppy casts...think again!
A brown trout's niche exploitation "being in the right place at the right time " , can surely be explained rationally by genetic behavioral programming, diurnal and seasonal cycles, hormonal and ecosystem influences that are textbook. But there is a certain " wow!, that's amazing?" part of their behavior that defies odds of occurrence yet underlies meaning- ( Carl Jung's Synchronicity: Synchronizität) Kirk Deeter
( editor of TROUT magazine), told me about some quirky brown trout feeding in his article on Tasmania several issues back , check it out

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The Early Black Stonefly Hatch-more tricky than you would think!

Early spring is all about loving those warm afternoons on a trout stream and looking for surface rising activity. As steelhead and rainbows are pounding gravel and procreating,  the greatest of all finicky predators: Salmo trutta/ browns, are on a new mission after the fall and winter spawn to eat every black stone they can! On our Michigan rivers winter can be brutal on the trout. The early black stone flies are literally the true"manna from heaven", as the ova-positing females fall from the sky to the water like fluttering black ashes. As the sun warms the afternoon- the greedy browns lie in wait!

 One would think that the trout are easy game at this early in the dry fly game-WRONG!,One would think that.since they haven't been rising all winter except for the random black midge or two, they would be easy targets. But this is one of the most difficult hatches to figure out. I learned a new respect and perspective yesterday while self-quarantining in my backyard- the Muskegon River!

                      (I spent nearly an hour and half stalking this elusive beast yesterday- it succumbed to my CDC black stone)

HATCH BIO

Early Black stones ( Allocapnia/Taeniopteryx ) are extremely prevalent in most trout streams around the world. They are extremely abundant in Michigan's trout streams which are subterranean ground flows that run more on the Alkaline side and have a good mix of gravel, rock, sand/silt and vegetation, with lots of wooded debris for these detritus eating mandibular shredders. February thru May: depending on where you are and water temperatures, will see their peak emergence. The manner on which this hatch behaves which is dictated by weather conditions and temperatures , make it extremely difficult to predict and time. But when you do?, its dry fly Nirvana! 

( CDC wings best imitate the fluttering wings on the surface)

 EMERGENCE

The nymphs start to stir when water temps hit 36F,  and start their classic " wiggling" downstream with the bio drift on warm sunny afternoons. They will float helplessly for miles in the frigid waters and are total targets for the trout, where they become gluttons and eat them until their bellies are distended .          ( here are three Muskegon "fat belly bulging,footballs", that were chomping on the surface)                                                 

The best way to start fishing the hatch if you are a dirty nympher, is Euro or strike indy fishing with long drifts and occasional "twitching" of your offerings. Where you can use two flies, having your flies separated (one on the bottom, one higher up in mid-strata) so you are covering all depths

                                       ( A JSON Sweden and my wiggle nymph do the trick, also black tape Edward's stone- box above)

The nymphs eventually wiggle to the shore and crawl up on the banks and go into the woods or emerge from water - 50/50 hatch where some like water or shore. You will often see "the walk of the Penguins" as black stone nymphs walk on snow like they are headed with some destiny-odd! Their mating takes place all  over and their coupling always baffles me ( very secretive) and how they get it done is a miracle by itself ( often I see them in the town I live in on a warm sunny afternoon at the  gas station, miles away from the river on windy days)

When we actually observe " the hatch", it is the afternoon flight of airborne ova- positing mating females coming back to lay eggs, along with those ones that are actually emerging from the water simultaneously . Their "ash-like" falls are very dainty, and come from the sky like light gray snowflakes. They float for great distances due to icy water temps if hatched from water, or egg laying. Herein lies the hatch complexity!

THE HATCH SKINNY-DRY FLY MENISCUS NOTES FOR THIS TRICKY ORDEAL

  ( The key to look for surface feeding big browns is identifying the early spring habitat that holds these fish- here it is!)

What I learned yesterday on my Facebook post was very affirming on all the observations I have made over the three decades I've chased this hatch. As a dry fly fanatic, here are my notes and observations so you will be better prepared

* Feeding habitat- Due to the usually very cold spring water temps( yesterday water was 37F, and not the classic "45-55" ideal surface feeding range) trout don't have the metabolic luxury to hold in midstream in faster flows. Through the winter they find log jams close to shore-where the stone nymphs crawl up on and in deep /slow pools as food banks.The image I posted is where to find these fish and the risers. It is in the back eddies/slack water where the fallen female stones accumulate in the counterclockwise back flows, and it is here where you will find the ultra selective/reflective browns at a "picky" grazing table. Her they can cruise these back eddies in metabolic comfort, usually sunning themselves ( yes sun!, for brown trout that abhor sun, now it means water warmth an mobility. (Preston Marson on my Facebook said " could use a little cloud cover-wrong Preston!, you want the sun!) Also since browns are very skittish critters, the log jam provides a security blanket if shocked by an avian predator or shocked by you hooking it! The bubble line brings the steady flow and bio drift. 

*Weather is the most important factor- Wind is the enemy here. On warm spring afternoons winds are bound to kick up and female stones that hate wind as much as Trump with this comb-over and hairspray :)- blows them away from their landing strips-the river!
Time your river adventures on the warmest and wind-free parts of the afternoon.If you have wind, find places on the river where there is a bluff and trees like I did yesterday- the stones were dropping like dark ash on my spot so thick, while around one windy bend downstream it was virtually empty of bugs. Also depending on wind, usually one side of the river will have the bio drift of female stones, and the other side of flow void of them.Also the early blacks are often confused for dark caddis and big bwo's.

*Feeding Intervals/ Masking Hatch/Presentation

So yesterday, I posted that I scouted that nice brown for over an hour before I finally caught it- correct!, here is why. The surface feeding to these ova-positers is in long slow flat/slack water. There were hundreds of bugs on the water and yet  no rising going on- I WAS BAFFLED!. I knew the water had to hold browns but yet nothing ( common early black stone scenario) Here is what was going on:

# First and foremost, a brown trout/is not a cuddly "warm up to anything" type creature. It moves slowly, pragmatically and deliberate until all systems are "GO" ( Read about all that in my Selectivity and Nexus Books) Also since they are slowly trying to awaken their metabolism in the frigid waters, sometimes they are not warmed up  yet ( like if your honey is warmed up yet  in foreplay! :)) and ready to start feeding on the surface. Plus the water surface is still strange and foreign territory to them after all winter  dredging bottom ( the water I caught my fish was at least 5 feet deep) That surface orientation will only get stronger as the season and hatches progress. than the chosen modem/(predator foraging profile-PFP) for browns will be the surface. ( again, all this is in Selectivity and Nexus)
# A massive factor was river traffic- the Muskegon yesterday was a ZOO with jet boast, drift boats, Moon rovers, jet ski's - freak show!- I was waiting for Elvis to appear! Everyone was driving 100 miles an hour looking for steelhead as I stalked the back eddies like an old gray bearded heron in search of rising trout. Every boat put some  "footprint wake/noise vibration" that every brown trout from youth to adult can detect , especially in the flat still waters where they hunt these prey. Once the boat traffic and noise subsided( around 5 PM) and the winds died down to almost nothing-BINGO!, there came the first two risers in a spot I've been starring at forever, and I was ready to pack it up and ready to call it failure! ( couple noise/vibration and sun!- not good combos, but the sun helped get the metabolism going!)
# A smaller 10 inch brown started feeding first. I had to make at least two dozen presentations over it before it took- THANK GOD!, I wasn't skunked. Then Mrs. Big made her presence The first few rises were barley dimples, like a chub, then I saw a big tail and back and that quickly got my attention. It was taking wiggling stone nymphs under the surface, and simultaneously taking adults on top The rises came  in very long intervals- 5-8 minutes, if not longer,It was the slow metabolism and water temp that was causing the fish to move, digest and rise slowly. Also their was a tiny black "masking hatch ' of midges going on, and I saw that fish rise several times to a spec on the surface( midge). I made at least 30 plus casts and drifts to that fish, until BAHM!, she took it and ripped me into my Abel reel drag and backing. I lifted anchor and drifted with the fish or I would have broken it off- she dove right into the current fast.  After she jumped totally airborne upon hooking, the net came out and she was one of the finest Selectivity games I ever played- and loved it!
# Presentation-Even though they will be taking a good number of in the "upper"  meniscus nymphs wiggling below , stay with your big fluffy CDC dry- they will eventually succumb to its meaty nature! I tried a dry /dropper, but I was confusing this selective bastard  and just causing drag by the two fly rig.
Use 18 foot leaders with 5-7 feet of 4x tippet( no lighter!), since you have a crack at a 20 incher on this hatch. Throw big "puddle casts" high and letting them fall in a pile to let the backwater tricky counter clockwise currents unravel your leader ( I learned this from Marinaro on the Letort back in my youth) Let your drift/ floats go for long distances, stack mending as the fish will do complex and complex rises due to having plenty of time and no current for the most part.

Here is to a 20 inch brown on the dry this spring!

                                                           ( 20' on a dry CDC black stone)

END

Stay safe and healthy, read more in these times where we have more of it than ever., also pray for everyone! I'll try to update these informative posts and start podcasting and videos more often as I venture to self-quarantine on the river!

Meantime, my books #Selectivity and #Nexus are waiting for you!- they have this content and so many more juicy stories. If they have been sitting on your shelves, dust them off and dig in- it will be worth it- confidently ! Cheers!, Na Zdrowie! 

MS

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Posted in: Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus , early black stones , gray drake lodge , Matthew Supinski new books , Michigan brown trout , muskegon river fly fishing , Selectivity book

Awesome last week at the Gray Drake!...some beasts of Steel !

Was an awesome last 9 days with my boys from Indianapolis, Lansing, Traverse City, New York City and Chicago. The steelhead so far this March have been some massive beasts - probably the biggest I've seen in 9 years like the Chinooks last fall... Plus the river has plenty of fat plump browns and rainbows. Going to be an outstanding spring!...enjoy this weeks pics!

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Posted in: Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus , gray drake lodge , Great Lakes steelhead , michigan steelhead , muskegon fly fishing , muskegon browns , Muskegon River steelhead , steelhead dreams

THE MOST PERFECT BROWN TROUT!- SIMPLY SALMO TRUTTA MAGNIFICENCE

                         ( Master Muskegon River guide, associate and friend: Jon Fortuna, one of the fishy-est dudes I know, with "THE" most perfect brownie I have ever seen!- a true massive congrats Jon! )

In case you haven't noticed, I'm passionately obsessed, possessed and compulsive with all things  Salmo: salar and trutta-browns and Atlantic's- the "Atlantic trouts" . My Nexus book on them was the most difficult and thought draining tome I've ever embarked on. #browntroutatlanticsalmonnexus

 When a fish touches your soul at at a very early age in the impressionable boyhood stage like brown trout and Atlantic salmon did on the Baltic rivers of northern Poland that I open my Nexus book chapters with, the power of these fish to cast a spell on you for life is simply spellbinding .

When Jon a few days on one of his evening trips texted me this image of the brown he just caught with client, I could feel his shaking/trembling with joy and humbleness coming through the texted image. When I first saw it, I was awestruck by the truly magnificence of this brown's "perfect" morphology/color spectrum/allele spotting patterns- everything about this #groundzerobrowntrout specimen- simply amazing does not do Jon's catch justice. When writing #Nexus I have looked through thousands of images of brown trout for the book- some of mine and other world class photographers so kind to gift me with their works) Here is why this fish is so special.

Ground Zero Genetic Infusion 

In Nexus I romanticize the importance of our subliminal  micro- ecosystem of tiny to medium cold flowing spring-fed wooded rivers from Newaygo to Baldwin, Michigan. Here in 1884, a special train came up from the Federal Fish Hatchery- Northville, MI to stock the "first brown trout"west of the the Atlantic ocean in civilization's new world western hemisphere- kinda a big deal ! 

Baron Von Behr's promise to send his beloved Black Forest German brown trout was on that train. They are typical of  the many brown trout strains of internal river systems in Europe : mix of brown spots with red dots circled with white rings, orange "butter" bellies, and a blue sapphire dot on the cheeks- a beautiful creature! These were and still are the main allele configurations of our ground -zero browns in our Michigan legacy. Our progressive Michigan DNR, leaders in fish culture for centuries, have preserved these German brown genetics by stocking Wild Gilchrist Creek browns at fingerling stages in rivers where natural reproduction needs help. 

As time progressed, other strains of brown trout came to the new world such as Scotland's Loch Leven and more coastal estuary/large water body specimens that had access at one point or still do to the Atlantic and surrounding seas, thus having less spotting and more silvery forage pelagic based allele structures that favor their life survival strategies.

Loch Levens when river based tend to have the more fuller brown spotting/leopard spot looks dominance in their appearance. Michigan uses a Wild Rose ( Wisconsin originated) brown that has faster growth potentials than the much more elusive and shy Black Forest German Forellen( Bach Forellen is German stream brown trout). Jon's perfect specimen embodies all these allele spotting into a fusion that takes on massive artistic implications. The fusion of leopard spotting with red crimson cell-like spots , extreme orange butter, reddish blood marking transitions, a cluster of leopard spotting running into the lower belly like Marble Trout of Slovenia....the artistic diagnosis never ends with this fish!)

"YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT"- THE MUSKEGON'S MASSIVE FORAGE BASE DIVERSITY
The Muskegon is one of the most fertile rivers I've ever witnessed. Since it is a tailwater that connects inland lake reservoirs and the Great Lakes it has a massive infusion of ecosystems that fuel the food chain in both directions. After years of lobbying for Type 3 regulations to create a trophy brown trout population, our new and talented /dedicated biologist Mark Tonello of the MDNR had the wisdom to implement these regulations and the brown trout populations are responding nicely and growing larger!
A big part of a brown trout's appearance /lifestyle and diet come from their genetic backgrounds and what they forage on, including adapting their morphology to their habitat type/water color and viscosity.
This "perfect" brown has an ideal mix of genetics that was fueled by an extreme diversity of prey. Robustly colored  browns usually result from extreme aquatic insect and freshwater crustacean, which the Muskegon has an enormous amount of. Crayfish, scuds and the entire aquatic insect smorgasbord of mayflies, caddis, stone flies and midges abound. Also bait fish such as sculpins, darters, chubs, sucker minnows and salmon /steelhead fry add to the mix. Couple these with the seasonal onslaught of eggs from spawning salmon, steelhead and suckers and the food supply is mind boggling, thus creating morphological vibrancy .
Bottom Line: All About The Fish
To me and many others, the fly fishing journey is more than just the catching. It is in the appreciation and adventure to witness the beauty of the natural order of things of God's creation. No fish is more stunning, sporting and beguiling , and captivating of the soul and eyes than Salmo-#civilizationsfoundingfish. Vision is a divine blessing we often take for granted. When you lay eyes on Jon's brown trout, a magnificently balanced beast of 30 million years in the making, you can only be humbled by the power of the natural world- how anyone can kill a fish of this beauty is beyond my comprehension. To all the guides and anglers that practice catch-and-release , the Salmo gods bless you!- especially with our Atlantic salmon populations that need mankind's help now more than ever.
One thing is for sure: you will be seeing more trophy brown trout ( Truttasaurus!), and stunning looking ones at that, in the years to come from the Mighty Muskegon!
(blogger's note: A year after my Nexus book was released, Jon's brown made me realize once again what emotional joy we receive when we catch a big brown!...to those that worship these fish, more of this adventure is in my Nexus pages)

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Caddis and Isonychia hatches have been great!- the whole river is fishing very well/excellent conditions

With higher than normal flows (3,000cfs)-actually perfect flows and water releases for this time of year!... and cool water temps, the Muskegon has been fishing AWESOME!...caddis all day have the trout looking up, and Isonychias, Stenos and still have gray drakes at dusk, the browns and rainbows are fatter and healthy than I've seen in 20 years...

We have availability this week and next week, so come on out and enjoy it!...
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Epicurean Salmon Dinner for Maine Atlantic Salmon Heritage Weekend

https://www.therangeleyinn.com/2019-atlantic-salmon-clinic

Here is the awesome menu we put together by the very talented Chef Joanna Farrar of Classic Provisions of Rangeley, Maine for our Annual Atlantic Salmon Heritage weekend festival we are hosting ...hope I can see you there!...make your reservations at the Rangeley Inn and Tavern ( note: we are promoting ONLY closed containment, organic raised Salmo salar, the wave of the future that will hopefully protect our precious wild stocks of salar from irresponsible aqua culture methods that has been hurting our Salmo populations all over the globe

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Maine Atlantic Salmon Heritage/Nexus Weekend at Rangeley Inn/Tavern..I'll be guest hosting

Hope to see my east coast friends there!

Here is the link to sign up for the two day- boots in the water festival
https://www.therangeleyinn.com/2019-atlantic-salmon-clinic

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Gray Drake Hatch Private Trophy Brown Trout Classes with Matt

SPRING IS HERE! WANT A TROPHY LEVIATHAN 20 PLUS BROWN ON THE DRY FLY? I WILL BE DOING MY PERSONALIZED GRAY DRAKE HATCH MATCHING CLASSES AGAIN THIS YEAR FOR INDIVIDUALS AND SMALL GROUPS. IN-DEPTH HATCH MATCHING TACTICS/FLIES ETC. AND STALKING GIANT TROPHY GULPING BROWNS. WITH OUR NEW TYPE III TROPHY BROWN REGS STARTING APRIL 1, THE MUSKEGON'S BROWNS ARE JUST GOING TO GET BIGGER AND MORE OF THEM! I TARGET THE MORNING AND EVENING SPINNER FALLS, AND FISH SUNKEN PATTERNS AND WIGGLE NYMPHS BY DAY- UNEXPLORED TERRITORY FOR BIG MAYFLY HATCHES.

( For the complete manifesto on everything and anything for passionate brown trout trutta chasers, check out my new Nexus book- it will rethink your passionate relationship with the most loved of all "civilization's founding trout"-check out the you tube trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl9NOLjHSuQ&t=30s

I AM DOING INDIVIDUALS, DUOS, SMALL GROUPS, YOUNG ANGLERS/PARENTS JUST STARTING AND TEACHING THEM THE INTRICATE DETAILS OF THE EVENING AND MORNING GRAY DRAKE HATCH PROGRESSION. WITH NEXUS BOOK INSPIRED FLY PATTERNS AND NEW INSIGHTS HOW BIG TROPHY BROWNS FEED TO THIS HATCH AND TO SULPHERS, ISONYCHIAS, CADDIS ETC. MY PASSION FOR MAYFLIES AND BROWN TROUT IS WHAT STARTED THE GRAY DRAKE !

CALL OR EMAIL ME AT THE LODGE FOR MORE INFO AND DATES FROM MAY THRU JUNE

www,graydrake.com

matt@graydrake.com

msupin2583@aol.com

231-250-2846

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Posted in: Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus , gray drake lodge , mayflies of Michigan , Michigan brown trout , muskegon river fly fishing , siphlonorus gray drakes