The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Wild weather swings are about to bend to more seasonable trends. We went from an early season snowstorm to an incredibly warm Indian Summer. The summer-like stretch made fishing and hunting difficult. Grouse hunting fell apart with the heat. Whipped dogs lolled tongues over water dishes in … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The last report talked about how great the August fishing had been. And then Mother Nature stepped in to make a liar out of me. A cold front blew in and settled on the river valley and stymied the rise. Fishing got tough overnight and the trout … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. The River just keeps on flowing unconcerned about what we’re doing and unconcerned with what we want to happen. Hendricksons have largely moved through the system, but I surely wouldn’t go to the river without some parachutes and I’d be looking for Hendrickson spinners at dusk. We’re … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report This has been the finest August I can remember – cool nights and warm days. Michigan has the best weather in the country right now. And fishing is, well, really pretty good for late Summer. Water temperatures and flows are solid, so daytime angling is alright. Tricos … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Somehow the world has turned enough to put us right into August. Understanding where Summer started to slip away is a head scratcher. Seems like we just got started and already we’re only weeks from September. I guess it’s because everything in our trout fishing world took … Read more
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Hex have blown up on the Au Sable since the last report. While it certainly isn’t over yet on the Au Sable it is well past peak emergence. The bugs will be less consistent than they have been over the last week, but nice fish will continue … Read more
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 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
April 4, 2019 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It’s April now. I don’t know much, but I know that. That means that your two thousand and eighteen Michigan fishing license is no longer valid. As of March thirty-first, Michigan anglers need to hold a twenty nineteen sticker to legally ply the waters … Read more