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<\/a>thrasher stoneflies are all on the smorgasbord.\u00a0 Best of all, there are a lot of fish taking notice.\u00a0 We have a strong second year age class of trout in the river this year and that means lots of targets for afternoon anglers.<\/p>\nThe Holy Waters has a pile of trout and a great number of rainbows in the eight to ten inch class. One angler landed a couple of dozen in a short afternoon wade.\u00a0 Those fish would be \u201ckeepers\u201d in most Midwestern streams, so that\u2019s like catching twenty-four legal walleye\u2014pretty cool.\u00a0 The North Branch has the best numbers of nice brook trout that we\u2019ve seen in years, and the South Branch is boasting the biggest brook trout that the Mason Tract has held since I started fishing it.<\/p>\n
The evening fishing has also started to heat up, and with spinner flights of Hendricksons and mahoganies, we can expect to start finding more fish in the third and fourth year age classes rising to the dry fly. So far those larger trout have been content to keep their feeding subsurface.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been able to inventory them on small streamers and wet skunks, but with some solid biomass on the water in the failing light, it\u2019s reasonable to expect that we\u2019ll be getting better bends in our rods.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re on the hunt for the elusive Hendrickson spinner fall. It can be like spotting bigfoot, but the rewards are enormous for the faithful.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a great start to the season and it\u2019s just going to keep getting better.<\/p>\n
Sulphurs and popcorn caddis are on the horizon, so anglers would be wise to sprinkle a few of those patterns in their fly boxes. Things change quickly in May and you just don\u2019t want to be caught fishing yesterday\u2019s good stuff today.\u00a0 Keep your head on a swivel and keep up with the changes.\u00a0 Great anglers pay attention and make adjustments whenever necessary.<\/p>\n
Hope to see you all soon,<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It\u2019s hard to believe we\u2019re already this deep into May. Hendrickson hatches are starting to wane, but there are lots of other bugs filling in the afternoon emergence.\u00a0 The black caddis hatch has blown up and little mahoganies, olive stoneflies, black quills, and mattress thrasher stoneflies are … 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":[148,155,84,7,154,5,150,68,1,158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053"}],"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=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}