The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report

    December 30,2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Here we go!  It’s ice fishing time now.  The winter blast is upon us.  We normally average about thirty degrees this time of year but the current ten day forecast is locked in single and low double digits.  The ice machine is cranking.  … Read more

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Christmas Fishing Report

December 20, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report     We’re moving out of the in between time.  That time in December that when deer season is ending and grouse season is winding down.   And the ice fishing hasn’t quite materialized.  It’s a thumb fiddling time. The best of the hunting is … Read more

River Report November 21, 2017

November 21, 2017   The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report   Rain.  It’s rained and snowed and the wind has blown and the sun disappeared for most of the deer season so far.  We’ve hunted in the grimpen mire.  And most folks in Northern Michigan had some tough sledding.  The buck poles were … Read more

River Report October 7, 2017

October 7, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Gotta admit, I’m struggling out there in the Grouse and Woodcock covers so far this year, and a lot of my friends are as well.  We had good drumming early this year and nesting seemed like it should have taken well.  Furthermore, it seemed … Read more

River Report – September 28, 2017

September 28, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report I spent a week in Wyoming chasing Sage Grouse.   It’d been too long since I’d visited the West.  The Wyoming grasslands were spectacular with wide vistas and rolling hills and flat topped buttes dripping with green draws and drainages.  Seemingly everywhere we looked Pronghorn … Read more

September 23, 2017

September 23, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report So much for Summer being over—we’re up against a September heat wave like I’ve never seen.   The weather man says we’re going push the mercury toward the ninety degree mark.  That’s not only gonna make the grouse hunting tricky but will also make trout … Read more

River Report September 11, 2017

September 11, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report And just like that Summer is over.  Our spectacular Spring fishing stirs the beehive of activity and the shop doors swing open and shut with eager anglers for many months until Summer’s crescendo.  Labor Day inflates our local population by tenfold and then, on … Read more

Labor Day 2017

August 31, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The last of our best hatches is in full flight—the White Fly hatch below Mio Dam is a spectacle of nature.  The White Flies, or Ephrons, emerge, mate, and spin in epic numbers on the best nights and create a blizzard of bugs that … Read more

River Report August 15, 2017

August 15, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It’s hard to believe how well the daytime fishing is holding up so far this August.  I took Jack on a float this past week for his first ever trout fishing trip.  We dropped the Au Sable boat into the Manistee at about noon—with … Read more