The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report

November 7, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Anglers are moving those brown trout around in fair numbers.  The bigger streamers seem to be garnering attention but smaller flies in the three inch range are the best bet—you simply target more fish.  The rivers are in much better shape than the deluge … Read more

Old Au Sable Fly Shop River Report

    October 27, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report With a heavy snap of the switch it just all changed.  We got everything we were asking for and more.  The temperature dropped quickly enough to warrant a one log fire salute to the beginning of woodstove season.  And the rain.  We … Read more

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report

    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

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

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

River Report December 8, 2016

December 8, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Good news and happy day.  I guess my last report was just a bit premature.  I talked, last week, about how I’d passed on a good number of one and a half year old bucks and was leaving the 2016 white-tailed deer season okay … Read more

River Report November 28,2016

November 28, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. It’s been a turbulent 2016 Deer Rifle Season here in Northern Michigan.  The thermometer in my truck read temperatures from seventy degrees all the way down to a chilly, nine degree morning start.  We had everything from Summer to Winter in a sixteen day … Read more

River Report – November 4, 2016

November 4, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. Hate to see October slip by.  I wish there were at least two of them.  I’d say six, but there’s no sense in getting greedy, I guess. That said, November is no slouch of a month.  It’s just that the outdoor opportunities start to … Read more