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You are here: Home / 2021 / Archives for May 2021

Archives for May 2021

It’s Mayfly time-but why the caddis fuss?

May 23, 2021 By Matthew Supinski

It's mayfly season-right? So our hatch matching attention should be on those amazing, beautiful, and delicate mayflies we have waited all year for. But???...why are those bloody sedges, as the Brit's call them, making such a fuss? The caddis conundrum is a dilemma that has plagued hatch matchers for … [Read more...] about It’s Mayfly time-but why the caddis fuss?

Filed Under: caddis, Carl Richards, Catskill fly fishing, Delaware wild trout, Driftless Area, Dry Fly, England's chalk streams, Fly Fishing, Gary LaFontaine, limestone spring creeks, Mad River, mayfly, Michigan Fly Fishing, Michigan trout streams, Montana fly fishing, Nymphing, Pennsylvania fly fishing, Pennsylvania wild brown trout, small trout streams, sulfur hatch, Trout, Uncategorized Tagged With: #caddishatches, #dryfly, #hallowedwatersjournal, #mayflyhatches, #Muskegonriver

Why We Dry Fly-The DNA of Fly Fishing

May 17, 2021 By Matthew Supinski

The dry fly is to fly fishing what the ten commandments are to the bible. It is a religion , a lifestyle and obsession for those fly fishers that have embraced the deeper Zen and karma of our art and craft. Fly fishing; especially the dry fly pursuit, is not just another "action sport" like it is … [Read more...] about Why We Dry Fly-The DNA of Fly Fishing

Filed Under: Au Sable, Catskill fly fishing, Delaware wild trout, Driftless Area, Dry Fly, England's chalk streams, Falling Springs Run, Fly Fishing, Leigh Perkins, Letort Spring Run, limestone spring creeks, mayfly, Michigan Fly Fishing, Michigan trout streams, Montana fly fishing, Nymphing, Orvis CFO, Orvis company, orvis fly fishing, Pennsylvania fly fishing, Pennsylvania wild brown trout, Pere Marquette, small trout streams, sulfur hatch, Trout, Uncategorized Tagged With: #alcaucci, #catskillflytyingguild, #peterhayes

The Ultimate Sulphur Primer

May 14, 2021 By Matthew Supinski

It started! Those magnificent and perhaps most delicate and beautiful of all the mayflies have begun their evening dance. In the words of Ernest Schwiebert, whose artistic and analytical prose aligned and complimented so perfectly with the bold and adventurous Chicago born icon who visited the … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Sulphur Primer

Filed Under: Au Sable, Big Spring Run, Catskill fly fishing, Delaware wild trout, Driftless Area, Dry Fly, Fly Fishing, Letort Spring Run, limestone spring creeks, mayfly, Michigan Fly Fishing, Michigan trout streams, Nymphing, Pennsylvania fly fishing, Pennsylvania wild brown trout, Pere Marquette, small trout streams, sulfur hatch

Surfing Up Salmonids-Fresh Spring Chrome on the Hunt

May 10, 2021 By Matthew Supinski

The pinnacle of the trout/salmon/steelhead fly fishing experience has always revolved around the stream and river experience. But it is rather ironic that we focus and chase the migratory salmonids in areas like rivers and streams where they actually are not at their most aggressive and predatory … [Read more...] about Surfing Up Salmonids-Fresh Spring Chrome on the Hunt

Filed Under: #tubeflies, Atlantic salmon, Coho salmon, Fly Fishing, Great Lakes Steelhead, Maine Atlantic salmon Recovery, mayfly, Michigan Fly Fishing, Salmon, Scotland, sea trout, Spey, spey swinging, Steelhead, Streamers, Trout Tagged With: #hallowedwatersjournal, AlessioFalorni, BenDickenson, KarlWeixlmann, MartinJorgeson, MiachaelDeloia, MichaelDurckalec, Samanthadatta, StuartMcCallum, ToddTowle

Hope for American Salmo Salar

May 4, 2021 By Matthew Supinski

Maine's Atlantic salmon recovery has had many setbacks in the last few decades. But there is a new hope and optimism from last year's adult salmon returns to the Penobscot River and other coastal rivers- the best yet since 2011. These fish are endangered and as these numbers trickle in there is … [Read more...] about Hope for American Salmo Salar

Filed Under: Atlantic salmon, Fly Fishing, Maine Atlantic salmon Recovery, Penobscot River Atlantic Salmon, Salmon

It’s that Magic Hatch Time-Sulfurs!

May 3, 2021 By Matthew Supinski

There is noting finer, nothing more sporting ,or more serenely classic in fly fishing than the merry month of May and its sulfur mayflies hatching. To watch those amazing yellow sailboats float down a trout stream and watch a wild trout gulp them is a sight for the soul. And to see those yellow … [Read more...] about It’s that Magic Hatch Time-Sulfurs!

Filed Under: Catskill fly fishing, Driftless Area, Dry Fly, Fly Fishing, Letort Spring Run, limestone spring creeks, mayfly, Michigan Fly Fishing, Montana fly fishing, Montana Spring Creeks, Nymphing, Paradise Valley Spring Creeks, Pennsylvania fly fishing, Pennsylvania wild brown trout, small trout streams, sulfur hatch, Trout Tagged With: #abelreels, #hallowedwaterjournal, #orvishelios

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