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
June 22, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The Hex hatch is rolling on the Au Sable. And the fishing has been great. It has been the strangest emergence I’ve ever witnessed. Our river is a giant spring creek and by its nature warms unevenly. Small springs, rivulets, creeks, and larger tributaries … Read more
June 13, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Big bug fever has caught fire here in Northern Michigan. And for god reason—big mayflies mean big trout. The Brown Drake hatch has been great and the Iconychia’s and Gray Drakes are showing up in numbers and doing good work at fooling the … 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