Hope to see you in a better and brighter 2021 at the Gray Drake!
Matt & Laurie
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 Cumberland Valley Limestone spring creeks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cumberland Valley Limestone spring creeks. Show all posts
Monday, January 18, 2021
OUR HALLOWED WATERS JOURNAL-PASSION FOR TROUT/STEELHEAD/SALMON
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Friday, March 11, 2016
MOSSY CREEK/SHENANDOAH VALLEY VIRGINIA NEXT WEEKEND...HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
9:35 AM
Matthew Supinski's Gray Drake/Selectivity/Nexus Blog
Hope to see all my Mid-Atlantic/& Southern friends next weekend at this fabulous event at Mossy Creek Fly Fishing !...Love the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the springtime- a very, very special place! If you have never been there ( calling out to my Buds!... in DC/ PA/MD/WV/NC), you owe it to yourself to check it out...between the Blue Ridge mountain wild trout streams( their mayfly hatches have already started) and the gorgeous limestone spring creeks, it is a TROUT MECCA!..BTW, my Sunday 'Selectivity Mastering Spring Creeks-'Boots in Water' class is 'sold out' ( thanks everyone!), but so much water to explore down there-- gonna be a great party, awesome BBQ and the Fly Fishing Film Tour Saturday night...book a room at one of the local ski resorts, B&B, hotels, and enjoy Virginia's finest destination and the wonderful, friendly/ hospitable folk of Ole' Virginia....Na Zdrowie ya'll !
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Hope to see you in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley at Mossy Creek Fly Fishing's Open House !
8:56 AM
Matthew Supinski's Gray Drake/Selectivity/Nexus Blog
(image of Mossy Creek- a limestone gem- Colby Trow)
It is gonna be a great two days!...March 19th and 20th...hope you can join us in the magnificent Shenandoah/Cumberland limestone valley!...
here is the Link:
http://mossycreekflyfishing.com/2016/02/25/mossy-creek-spring-open-house-saturday-march-19th-2016-and-fly-fishing-film-tour-shenandoah-valley/
(clinics and seminars will focus on difficulty/fussy spring creek, tailwater and freestone trout....plus steelhead and Atlantic salmon)
( a Mossy Spring Creek 28 " brown...circa 1987, caught under that bridge pictured above, from my old Wash. D.C. days- the Shenandoah Spring creeks , mountain brook trout streams and tailwaters are very special places in American trout fishing!)
( Mossy creek reminds me of many Montana 'big sky-open valley spring creeks)
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Looking at Epicurean Gourmet Trout Snobs- buon appetito !
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Matthew Supinski's Gray Drake/Selectivity/Nexus Blog
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Sunday, May 3, 2015
BEAVER CREEK,MD SELECTIVITY CLINIC...SPRING CREEKS/TAILWATERS
5:04 PM
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!
