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Fly Fishing

Every Wild Brown Trout Tells a Story

July 31, 2023 By Matthew Supinski

I don't fish- I hunt...trout that is! Every step I take into my secret little world on my tiny spring creeks in the national forest down my road, is a spiritual hallowed journey of learning and reverence. Each wild brown trout I catch in these historic icy- cold, skinny waters, teaches me … [Read more...] about Every Wild Brown Trout Tells a Story

Filed Under: brook trout, brown trout, caddis, culinary, Dry Fly, emergers, epicurean cusisine, Fly Fishing, foodies, foraging for food, Hallowed Waters Journal, Michigan Fly Fishing, Michigan trout streams, Midge Fishing, small trout streams, The Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus Book, Tricorythodes, Trout, Trout Unlimited, Uncategorized, wild mushrooms Tagged With: #troutunlimited

The Enigmatic Masking Hatch

June 21, 2023 By Matthew Supinski

( Image: A freshly hatched Sulphur dun that crawled up on my waders on the West Branch of the Delaware in the Catskills as it was shedding its nymphal shuck that looks like a Pheasant Tail nymph - thus the case for a Sulphur dry with a brown Z-lon tail shuck and a PT dropper during this hatch- … [Read more...] about The Enigmatic Masking Hatch

Filed Under: Au Sable, Big Spring Run, brown trout, caddis, Catskill fly fishing, Chironomid, Delaware wild trout, Driftless Area, Dry Fly, emergers, Falling Springs Run, Fly Fishing, Hallowed Waters Journal, Hex Hatch, limestone spring creeks, mayfly, Michigan Fly Fishing, Michigan trout streams, Midge Fishing, Montana fly fishing, Montana Spring Creeks, Pennsylvania fly fishing, Selectivity book, sulfur hatch, Tricorythodes, Uncategorized

In Search of Pasta-The Ecstasy and Agony

March 4, 2023 By Matthew Supinski

THE EPICUREAN FORAGER - FOOD AND SPIRITS-HALLOWED WATERS JOURNAL Story and Images by Matthew Supinski My pasta love affair took hold at a young age and just continues to blossom. An obsession and passion almost as severe as the one I have for trout, steelhead and Atlantic salmon. Luckily for … [Read more...] about In Search of Pasta-The Ecstasy and Agony

Filed Under: Atlantic salmon, brown trout, culinary, epicurean cusisine, Fly Fishing, foraging for food, gourmet food, Italian cuisine, Italian pasta, Italian Trout Fishing, Mad River, Niagara Falls, Santa Barbara California, Shrimp Scampi, smoked salmon, Sopranos, spey swinging, The Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus Book, Trout, Uncategorized, wild mushrooms Tagged With: #alpicchioromeitaly, #barillapasta, #cannelloni, #carbonarapasta, #chantrelles, #chopinexpresstrain, #comorestaurantniagarafalls, #fruttidemarepasta, #icelandatlanticsalmon, #linguineclams, #maccallanwhiskey, #madriverbrewing, #orzopasta, #pancetta, #papperdellepastra, #pennepasta, #reykavodka, #riverspey, #santabarbarasmokehouse, #Scotchwhiskey, #tosowine, #vodkapastasauce, #wildushrooms

Chasing Marinaro’s Big Spring- Wild Trout Utopian Dreams still in Limbo

February 5, 2023 By Matthew Supinski

( A stunningly beautiful and vibrant colored Big Spring wild brook trout-author image-circa 2015) β€œMan's Utopian dreams get circumvented through compromise and disappointment into a tolerable reality.”(quote by Stewart Stafford) It was as pure and utopian as a wild brook trout heaven could … [Read more...] about Chasing Marinaro’s Big Spring- Wild Trout Utopian Dreams still in Limbo

Filed Under: Big Spring Run, brook trout, brown trout, Chironomid, Driftless Area, Dry Fly, emergers, epicurean cusisine, Falling Springs Run, Fly Fishing, Hallowed Waters Journal, Letort Spring Run, limestone spring creeks, mayfly, Midge Fishing, midges, Nymphing, Orvis CFO, Pennsylvania fly fishing, Pennsylvania wild brown trout, Scotland, Selectivity book, The Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus Book, Trout, Uncategorized Tagged With: #atlanticsalmonpreserve, #chalkstreams, #charlesfox, #cressbugs, #cumberlandvalleyhistoricsociety, #CumberlandValleyTroutUnlimted, #docfritcheytroutunlimted, #englishflyfishng, #ericnaguski, #ericrichard, #franksawyer, #hallowedwaterspodcast, #hampshire England, #harrisburgflyfishers, #lochlevenbrowntrout, #maccallanwhiskey, #matthewsupinski, #moderdryflycode, #neilsunday, #newvillepa, #normshires, #pennsylvaniafishcommission, #riveravon, #riverkeeper, #RiverTest, #scuds, #singlemaltscotch, #stewartstafford, #storalaxaiceland, #tommybaltz, #VincentMarinaro, #yellowstonepark, PAFBC

MICROMANAGING MINUTIAE-OVERCOMING TINY FLY PHOBIA

December 20, 2022 By Matthew Supinski

Midges and Scuds are tiny minutiae extremely important in winter. These are a trout's daily bread and butter.

( Though many of us love to fish dries and swinging wets, Midges and micro crustaceans are a trout's bread and butter in the benthic bio drift in winter as pictured above. Thus entailing nymphing either traditional or Euro style. Though we tend to confuse midge larvae color with adults' coloration … [Read more...] about MICROMANAGING MINUTIAE-OVERCOMING TINY FLY PHOBIA

Filed Under: Big Spring Run, brook trout, brown trout, Catskill fly fishing, Chironomid, Delaware wild trout, Driftless Area, Dry Fly, Falling Springs Run, Fly Fishing, Hallowed Waters Journal, Letort Spring Run, limestone spring creeks, Michigan trout streams, Midge Fishing, midges, Montana fly fishing, Nymphing, Pennsylvania fly fishing, Pennsylvania wild brown trout, rainbow trout, Uncategorized Tagged With: #hallowedwaterjournal, #hallowedwatersjournal, #patrickfulkrod, #southholstenriver

Autumn Caddis & The Trout and Steelhead of October

October 21, 2022 By Matthew Supinski

( A gorgeous October Michigan rainbow- resident Eagle Lake California strain that Michigan has adopted- or Michigan strain steelhead that hasn't smolted due to its stubbornness- you be the judge. Regardless, this 15 inch fish jumped chrome silver and put up a blistering fight on a 12 foot 3 weight … [Read more...] about Autumn Caddis & The Trout and Steelhead of October

Filed Under: caddis, Delaware wild trout, Dry Fly, Fly Fishing, Great Lakes Steelhead, Hallowed Waters Journal, Michigan Fly Fishing, Michigan trout streams, Orvis company, orvis fly fishing, Pennsylvania fly fishing, rainbow trout, spey swinging, Steelhead, Trout, trout spey, Uncategorized, West Coast Steelhead Tagged With: #caddishatches, #carlrichards, #cohodryfly, #dryflysteelhead, #lafontaine, #octobercaddis, #octobersedge, #orvishelios, #steelheadalley, #swingingdryflies, #wakingflies

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