Our Trout are Happy and Eating Dries

 Read all about our Trico and Caddis Hatches at Matt's Hallowed Waters Blog/Journal- subscribe today! www.hallowedwaters.comLatest blog :https://hallowedwaters.com/uncategorized/dances-with-tricos-the-white-curse-demystifie...

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Hexaritaville-It's On!

 It’s a happening...like swarms of a plague to a dry fly dopers delight, the largest mayflies on earth are emerging at dusk. The chance for the biggest brown trout of a lifetime awaits when the tug on the glow line in your hands after midnight is the drug. The iconic Hexagenia and Lithrobrancha ( Dark Drake) hatch is on! In the complete anthology Mayfly issue of Hallowed Waters Journal ( coming soon in hard copy glossy print) the big mayfly hatch is explored from every angle in “ The Mayfly Aristocracy” piece. Michigan “Hexaholics” like Pitzer, Lynch,Vanderwall and poet laureate Linsenman with his “ Hexaritaville” saga, delve deep into the dark side and things that go bump in the night... come and subscribe to www.hallowedwaters.com...

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 Our latest updates and fishing conditions are on our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages along with Matthew Supinski's private page. Hallowed Waters Journal is publication that Matthew Supinski publishes and has an Instagram Page. Also Matthew's Face Book and Twitter pages is updated daily for the most accurate stuff- also feel free to call us anytime at 231-250-2846....see you soo...

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SPRING MAYFLY HATCHES AND COOL WEATHER HAVE BEEN AWESOME!

 With the cool weather and good water flows the spring trout fishing has been excellent. This bodes well for the summer for sure! But sometimes the stars align for the perfect late morning/ noon hatch... Cold, clear  50 F night, started with bright sun turned into a cloudy, humid  day with drizzle/ light rain, air temps mid 60’s , water temps 59-60. Not a boat or angler to be found and Viola!, Steno Cahills emerging and spinning- dirty rusty spinner did the trick on this beautiful Loch Leven spotted brownie. Sometimes timing is everything! But this magnificent bastard refused emergers and duns with at least 4 fly changes- selectivity at its finest! (Stay tuned for the next Hallowed Waters Podcast coming June 15th on the...

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NOAH'S DRAKES

                                                                       ( Like manna from heaven a gray drake spinner lands on us. After a brutally hot and drought filled summer of 2021, our Gray Drake/Siphlonurus hatch disappeared mysteriously-but they are back to our surprise and joy. Client and Montana Trout Bum magnifique:John Gryzbek, prepares his Bamboo rod for action to spinner rises)It's amazing how nature and what was the old normal is now the new bizarre and unusual. Nature is an amazing force that kicks our ass and embarrasses us. Just when you think you...

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OUR HALLOWED WATERS JOURNAL-PASSION FOR TROUT/STEELHEAD/SALMON

 In case you haven't seen it yet, Laurie and I have been launching a cool new magazine concept.The new issue just came out Jan 15th- our second issue, and the accolades and subscripotions we atre recieveing have been truly amazing!- we hope you can come to this passion and journeyt for all things trout/steelhead /salmon fly fishing.The winter issue has amazing pieces on winter spring creeks, cold weather steelheading, how to fish winter tailwaters and the snowbound early black stonefly hatch...plus 12 departmental columns on evry facet of the sport! 175 pages, 450 color images, 40 fly patterns and recipes and even my gourmey food and spirits column!Hope you can join us on the passion and journey for what we all love!...to subscribe come...

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Posted in: Cumberland Valley Limestone spring creeks , early black stones , gray , Great Lakes steelhead , hallowed waters journal , muskegon fly fishing , salmon , steelhead , trout , winter trout fishing on tail waters

FINALLY SEEING SOME JANUARY CHROME

 Finally seeing some January Pink Chrome...where "they should b...

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January is the new Novomber

 Fresh run of steelhead is here and on the move!...the brown and rainbow tailwater nymphing has been exceptional!...warm up comin...

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Annual 3 for 2 Holiday Special- Great Gift Idea

 Want a Christmas or Hanukah gift for that special someone in your life?...or maybe treat yourself! Offering our annual "3 for 2" Holiday special- Buy two guide trips and get a third free! (Purchase before December 25th and schedule it anytime in 2021 depending on what style of Trout/Steelhead/Salmon fly fishing you like to do- including instruction for beginners wanting to get into this amazing outdoor passion!Whether you are thinking steelhead, amazing dry fly action for big browns and rainbows on the tailwaters and rivers to mayfly, stonefly and caddis hatches, spey swinging and instruction, small stream wild brookies and browns, streamers for big browns, wild King salmon or our unique Atlantic salmon program we...

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Winter Steelhead Manifesto- An Obession

 Coming in the winter issue of Hallowed Waters Journal..."Cold Steel Dreaming-An Obsessive Winter Steelheader's Manifesto". The complete Zen bible and passion on this brutal winter game that is a cult gig where endurance, karma, obsessive/compulsive Merlin-esque sorcery qualities are needed to often conjure up the deep freeze bite. The tactical and psych skinny is shared here by the top steelhead guide gurus form the Great Lakes to the Pacific northwest. The fisheries are changing, the tactics becoming more intense and refined, but the fish and the chase are still the burn for the dope and fix in this "tug is the drug" obsession...come to www.hallowedwaters.com, your passion and journey starts here!-where all waters and the Trout/Steelhead/Salmon...

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More precipitation coming!- Steelhead, Atlantics and browns knocking on the door!

 For those that have waited with all this bizarre low water and heat wave of November, the best is yet to come!!!&nbs...

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Posted in: gray drake lodge , Great Lakes steelhead , Michigan Atlantic salmon , michigan steelhead

STEEL CHROME IS HERE!

 Finally we have rain!...and fresh chrome fall steelhead are her...

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Posted in: fall steelhead , gray drake lodge , michigan steelhead , muskegon fly fishing

Hallowed Waters Journal

 After nearly 3 decades of writing magazine articles and books for other publishers, guiding relentlessly for over 25 years and fishing around the globe, I am extremely excited to announce that I am launching my own digital magazine called “ Hallowed Waters Journal-The Trout/Salmon/Steelhead Passion”. This endeavor is the culmination of all of these efforts and  the perfect vehicle for me to continue my endless pursuit of excellence and share my passion for the tactical sport, science, theories and art of fly fishing for these amazing fish. In this quarterly magazine I hope to bring you in depth content, stunning photography and videos and feature  provocative and innovative talented anglers and artisans of our craft-past and...

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A very good friend and fishing partner- Dick Pobst-RIP

I am very sadden to say my good friend, supporter and an Icon in the fly fishing world passed away yesterday- the one and only Dick Pobst. Dick was a good fishing partner on the Muskegon and a bug /hatch matching fanatic up until a few years ago. Dick introduced me to Orvis 25 years ago when I first started out in an old wooden/fiberglass drift boat. He and Carl Richards "Selective Trout " fame put bugs and hatches into perspective for everyone. Dick's "Trout Stream Insects- and Orvis Pocket Guide" was a master work that made bug Latin simple. My upcoming online magazine will feature Dick and Carl in the "Caddis Conundrum"...may God rest your soul brother, and may you and Carl find all new species of aquatic bugs in heaven to harass...

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Posted in: Dick Pobst , Orvis Pocket Guides , Thornapple Orvis , Trout Stream Insects

Big Mayfly Time- The light giant drakes of Summer ( and heat wave warning)

( A Hex/yellow drake/ Danica  imitation- author image and tie) Summer's  giant drakes are one mayfly hatch period that guarantees big trout will be on the prowl for them. Besides the legendary Hexagenia/( light hex) and Rithrogena (dark hex) hatch of Michigan and the Midwest, Hexs' /giant drakes exist all over the globe and east coast were you have silty stream bottoms and fine gravel . Even on classic eastern/western freestone/cobblestone rivers, the lower silty portions of them have Hexagenia hatches, as do limeteoners and spring creeks everywhere. Big trout will pack on the weight from these hatches, and the fact that many do not fish late into the night on ice cold spring creeks since they fish well in mid-day, they often...

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Posted in: gray drake lodge , Great Lakes , hexagenia limbata , Matt Supinski #Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus book , Matthew Supinski new books , may fly hatches , Michigan ground zero legacy , Selectivity book