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<\/a> thin dribble of Hendricksons for a good number of days and with low pressure in the forecast and with water temperatures bobbing back and forth across the mid-fifty degree mark, the Hendricksons should blow up and fishing should cross the Mendoza Line.<\/p>\nCasting blue-winged olives to small rising trout has been a fun warm up to the to the hatch match dry fly fishing season which is about to take<\/em> off. It\u2019s been great to get a chance to stretch those floating lines.\u00a0 The first few dry fly casts of the season can be pretty funny when you\u2019ve chucking lead for the last six months.\u00a0 The first attempt is like a pitcher trying to throw seeded dandelion across home plate.\u00a0 But then, just like that, you\u2019re riding that bike again.<\/p>\n I took my first dry fly foray this past week and had a great prelude of things to come. When I pulled on my Summer waders I felt something odd in the bootie\u2014turned out to be a crumpled up dollar.\u00a0 Fish rose pretty well to olives and a smattering of Hendricksons made the stage around 3 o\u2019clock. The next grip of low pressure The Trout Opener Eve Party is on for the 29th<\/sup> of April at the Old Au Sable, so clear your calendar and swing by.<\/p>\n Dennis Potter will be tying flies all weekend long at the Fly Shop, so be sure to find some time to check out his presentations. He\u2019ll be doing sessions of one fly pattern at a time and folks are welcome to attend as many or as few as they\u2019d like.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s Dennis\u2019 itinerary:<\/p>\n Old AuSable Tying Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday:<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:00 – 11:30 – Parachute Perfection<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:00 – 1:30 – Opal Tinsel Dry Flies<\/strong><\/p>\n 2:00 – 4:00 – Building A Better Bugger, Building a Better Clouser<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday:<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:00 – 11:30 – Potter\u2019s Drake, Potter\u2019s Drake Spinner<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:00 – 1:30 – Adams Perfection<\/strong><\/p>\n 2:00 – 3:30 – Zlon-a-dun, Comparadun<\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday:<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:00 – 11:30 – Terrestrials – Fat Head Beetle, Fat Head Moth, Skunk Cricket<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:00 – 1:30 – Wets and Nymphs – Tungsten Bead Soft Hackle Dark, Aurora Bead Head Steelhead Grub<\/strong><\/p>\n 2:00 – 3:30 – Rivergod Spinner<\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s lots of great stuff going on at The Old Au Sable this Spring so be sure to check out the events page <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a>on our website.<\/p>\n Hendricksons . . .<\/p>\n Hope to see you soon,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 21, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The dry fly fishing season is here. It\u2019s not red hot just yet, but it is here.\u00a0 Olives have hatched nicely for the last week and we\u2019ve had a thin dribble of Hendricksons for a good number of days and with low pressure in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,155,84,7,154,5,150,68,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>For me, found money is always a sign of luck.\u00a0 Then on the river the first decent cast caught my first fish of the year on an olive.\u00a0 Then, I found the skull of a racked buck next to the river.\u00a0 Folks in some circles may see that as a macabre omen but not some wood tick like me\u2014to me it\u2019s a prize.<\/p>\n<\/a> should get the bugs hatching even better.\u00a0 And if we see clouds and rain, the streamer fishing up until the dry fly main event should be great.<\/p>\n<\/a>One of the highlights is a one day beginner\u2019s fly fishing class <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>with industry pro Ben Hunting on May 14th<\/sup> and again on May 15th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Cost is for the class is $199 and includes a free fly rod package and instruction valued at $365.<\/p>\n