August 4, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. You just gotta love Northern Michigan. We’ve been vacillating between hot, sunny days best suited for beach blankets, blow up toys, and water fights and with cooler fall-like, cloudy days primed for fishing. And sometimes, it all happens in the same twenty-four hours. Either … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The dog days of Summer can make trout fishing tough. But we have yet to experience those doldrums on the trout streams of Northern Michigan. Deep and regular cool downs have kept the waters of our upper rivers, well, cool. Even better, the abrupt hot weather systems … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. It’s a great time to be a fisherman on the trout streams of Northern Michigan. There are many tactics that can work in the weird, little world of fly fishing and right now all of them are in play. But, of course, there’s a problem – you’ll … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. It’s July. Seems like I just woke up yesterday scrutinizing the weather report and thinking about the possibility of an afternoon Hendrickson hatch. April slipped quickly into May and that fishing pushed into the late nights of June and the Brown Drake and Hex hatch chase. It’s … Read more
June 23, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. Well that was a great week we just had. The Hex hatched and spun and big fish took notice. We always see many of the best brown trout of the year during the Hex hatch, but it’s been just that much better so far … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The weather is always a bit crazy in Northern Michigan, but this past week it was downright schizophrenic. I set the furnace at seventy degrees one day in order to keep us warm and then set the air conditioner at seventy-four the next day to keep us … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report I go fishing every day. It’s not some selfish rule or credo. And it’s not because I’d be a fake in the fly shop if I didn’t, and it’s not for some ego issue; it’s because I have to. It’s because something tugs at my guts and … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It’s June and that means one thing above all others in Northern Michigan—it’s time to go fishing. It’s prime time angling for nearly every fish that swims in our lakes and streams. The Bluegill fishing is prime right now. I took Jack to a little, puddle lake … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It’s been a great week of fishing for me. Now, granted, I really only get to go after the shop has closed. And, while that limits me to hitting the stream for the evening rise, I’m fine with that because it’s usually the time to find bigger … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The caddis KaBoom! happened and the Sulphurs got rolling. The first warm days after a cold spell often make good things happen and the yellow sun did its part to make the yellow bugs explode this week. There’s too many different caddis on the water to list … Read more