June 25, 2019 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Hex are imminent. They have been for the last week. We saw the big fish-flies blow up in enormous number on Lake Margrethe and have been waiting for the big mayflies to make an appearance ever since. It normally takes about a week of … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The fishing since the last report on the Au Sable has been surprising. The hatches came off as predicted but with the unprecedented cold and high stream conditions, good catching was improbable. We expected tough angling, but what we got was amazing. High water continued to plague … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The rains keep falling. The rivers rise. The hatches keep moving along. Some reaches of river have become too high and clouded to effectively fish. It can be stressful for the anglers that have planned a fishing adventure some twelve months ago and have arrived to high, … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Fishing is always good, but now the catching is starting to slowly improve. It’s been a cold Spring and we’ve been struggling with water temperatures. That situation looks to be getting better all the time. Nighttime low temperatures along with daytime high temperatures, are helping our streams … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Our river systems have blown up with insect life. The sand flies are out – you know, those little black critters that draw blood from your ears and nick you around your hat line. Mosquitos have to be close. But the misery that the biting insects bring … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Every Spring of every trout season there’s a great fish story. This time it’s mine. We’ve been struggling Up North to get the 2019 Michigan trout season kicked into gear. Each time the conditions get right and the weather looks like it’ll let us find fish rising … Read more
May 3, 2019 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The opening week of trout fishing in Michigan is in the books. It was a tough one. We had some very warm days that pushed Hendricksons to the surface and had a few fish looking up. But a cold front bumped water temperatures back … Read more
April 25, 2019 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The opening week of the Michigan trout season has arrived. On the last Saturday of April all eleven thousand five hundred miles of trout stream in our great state will be open to anglers. Combine that with more coastline than the entire Eastern seaboard … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The highest April snowfall totals in many Northern Michigan communities happened. We hit records. Big records. So I guess congratulations are in order? But it’s hard to shout out a woohoo! We were all of us Michiganders primed with Spring Fever and then the awful came to … Read more
October 10, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report We’ve continued with the Summer-like weather trend for the entire Fall so far and it’s been a tourism boon to our little Northern Michigan communities. Folks love the warm and have made the trip Up North in big numbers. But if the … Read more