THEY ARE FINALLY BACK!...AND BIGGER THAN EVER!

After being on the Joe all week and watching them trickle in, they have now officially arrived en masse !...about time!, and they are running as big as ever!..With no  weir/fish ladder trapping them at Berrien Springs like for decades ( they need 900 adults) for broodstock/egg/sperm harvest for next year's plants by Indiana DNR, which they now do on Trail Creek, IN, thus, the fish ladder at Berrien Springs is 'WIDE OPEN' and open for serious summer run steelhead biz-ness!

( Mysis Procopius)

Why the size when our Michigan Winter strain ran so small this past spring run? Basically, the Great Lakes mystery of 'constant biologic change" is always 'trending now',  since alewives ### are down =alewives eat mysis, thus Mysis shrimp ### WAY UP LIKE LATE 1980''S!- prior . so!!!... shrimp are the ideal food source for rainbow trout ( remember they are ocean going rainbow trout- finicky and precise predators), shrimp pack more of a power protein ,selenium, B-12, and very interesting iodine,  than even ale' wives

(NOTE: If you have never experienced these amazing  silver, pink cheeked 'tarpon of the Great Lakes', and call yourself a GL steelheader!, time is now through early September to do so. I personally have a very few good dates open and would love to show you the game. 

All dry lines/ no weight,single or two handers, lots of sight fishing or blind  swinging, whatever your schematics/gig desires. I have dedicated 25 plus years chasing these fish, so I'm confident and read a few books about steelhead!..;)...cheers!, sorry for the cockiness, just love what I do!......na zdrowie..yes I get them to eat dry fly beetles on the surface!

( MY flash back beetle dries..Senyo's ( Hareline Dubbin shaggy dubbing) greased up- rubber floats with right grease, and pushes water!)

here are few video testimonials...cheers!!!- life is great!- get out and fish steelhead, and BE PATIENT AND HUMBLE !!

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GREAT LAKES TROUT,STEELHEAD AND SALMON SEMINAR-ST.JOSEPH, MI- INN HARBOR SHORES

'JOURNEY INTO THE FISH'S MIND'- NEW FRONTIERS FOR GREAT LAKES TROUT, STEELHEAD AND SALMON'

SEMINAR BY AUTHOR/GUIDE/ ADVENTURIST , MATT SUPINSKI

FOOD AND MICROBREW TASTING ON THE 'SPRING INTO MICHIGAN 'FESTIVAL MENU

INN HARBOR SHORES/PLANK'S TAVERN, ST.JOSEPH , MICHIGAN

MAY 23RD

.  This event is part of the 'Spring into Michigan' series. 

Below is the event timeline/format.

Spring into Michigan with Angler, Author, and Adventurer, Matthew Supinski
RSVP@innatharborshores.com 
3pm Ballroom doors open
3pm-6pm hors d'oeuvres from the bounty of Southwest Michigan including whitefish dip and local Farm raised organic cuts of meat- microbrew tasting with Michigan and Great Lakes microbreweries. 
4pm-6pm Matthew Supinski presents: "JOURNEY INTO THE FISH'S MIND- NEW FRONTIERS FOR GREAT LAKES TROUT, STEELHEAD AND SALMON"
6pm cocktail hour with Matt Supinski in Plank's Tavern

Cash bar ft. Founders Brewing Co.
$35 per person includes entry to the event, lite hors d'oeuvres, & beer tastingAnglers-in-training attend for free (15 and under)

Brianne Schmidke Director of Sales & Marketing Main 269.983.1111 | Direct 269.408.9112 bschmidke@innatharborshores.com 800 Whitwam Drive | St Joseph, Michigan 49085

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Posted in: gray drake lodge , Great Lakes atlantic salmon , great lakes king salmon , Great Lakes steelhead , Great Lakes summer steelhead , Inn Harbor Shores , lake-run brown trout , Selectivity book , steelhead dreams

GREAT LAKES ART

The artist behind the Michigan brook trout- designed the Bell's Two Hearted Ale logo and this stunning sketch of this etching of John Voelker and his passion with Salvelinus fontinalis- tomorrow night at the INN Harbor Shores, St. Joseph, Michigan
                                                                               http://www.heraldpalladium.com/features/ladislav-hanka-i-tell-my-story-through-pictures/article_216a043f-a132-5af0-b692-dbbfc01b8779.html

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Posted in: brook trout , gray drake lodge , Great Lakes steelhead , Inn Harbor Shores , mayflies of Michigan , michigan fly fishing