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<\/a>The Bluegill fishing is prime right now.\u00a0 I took Jack to a little, puddle lake the other day with the promise that we\u2019d put a few in the bucket so we could cook them for dinner.\u00a0 I let him pick out the fly and ended up knotting on a big, goofy, rubber-legged fly to the leader.\u00a0 It ended up being a perfect temptation for the gills and in short order we had more than this Daddy wanted to clean so I talked him into dumping the bucket because they were all so nice and we\u2019d be able to catch more if we let them go.\u00a0 It took some doing but he agreed and back to the water they went.\u00a0 When the bucket filled again, I asked what he thought about letting the new crop go and he looked into the bucket and said, \u201cYeah, these are pretty nice ones, let\u2019s pour them out\u201d.\u00a0 So we did and for a second after we watched them swim back into the lake I could see his face screwed up and the cogs of his brain turning.\u00a0 He looked at me and said, \u201cNow let\u2019s try to catch some bad ones\u201d.\u00a0 I like when kids are accidentally funny.<\/p>\n
The rivers are in fine shape for dry fly fishing.\u00a0 There are lots of bugs to fill up the daytime and evening fishing.\u00a0 We have Sulphers, olive and yellow stoneflies, and all sorts of caddis.\u00a0 The hatches combined with the extremely seasonable forecast should make for some very good daytime trout fishing.<\/p>\n
Brown Drakes<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> have also emerged on much of the Au Sable and on The weather this week will be cooler than the last, so look for the drakes to fall when the sun gets just below the tree line and be prepared to stay until after dark.\u00a0 If it gets too cool, rise and drink your coffee on the way to the stream in the morning.\u00a0 Spinners that flew back into the trees at dusk on too cool nights, will often come back to the water early in the morning to finish what they started.\u00a0 And be sure to fish longest in the days that rain.\u00a0 Cloudy, rainy days can produce the drake all day long.<\/p>\n Hatch fishing isn\u2019t always perfectly predictable and that\u2019s why I love it so much.\u00a0 Fly fishing mimics a lesson we learn while getting older in life and that\u2019s the fact that we don\u2019t and won\u2019t know everything and that the fun is in the mystery and surprises.\u00a0 And the best of everything is in the experiences.<\/p>\n It\u2019s going to be a great week of fishing and the beginning to a Don\u2019t forget to sign up you and\/or your loved ones for our beginning fly fishing class <\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>with myself and industr<\/span>y professional Ben Hunting on Sunday June 12.\u00a0 Class starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m.\u00a0 Lunch is included as well as a fly rod and reel package.\u00a0 Cost is $200 for a class\/gear package that retails for $365.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great deal and a fantastic way to introduce a newcomer into the weird little world of fly fishing.\u00a0 Plus, I simply love teaching class . . .<\/p>\n I 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 June and that means one thing above all others in Northern Michigan\u2014it\u2019s time to go fishing.\u00a0 It\u2019s prime time angling for nearly every fish that swims in our lakes and streams. The Bluegill fishing is prime right now.\u00a0 I took Jack to a little, puddle lake … 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":[156,148,159,155,84,7,160,154,5,68,158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"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=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> some reaches of the Manistee River.\u00a0 This hatch represents the best of what Michigan dry fly fishing has to offer.\u00a0 The big mayfly pattern makes an excellent day time prospecting fly and handles a nymph dropper well.\u00a0 And, like it did last week on the North Branch of the Au Sable, often shows up in unfathomable numbers at dusk.<\/p>\n<\/a> fantastic month.<\/p>\n