{"id":1120,"date":"2016-06-30T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:05:18","slug":"river-report-june-30-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/30\/river-report-june-30-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"River Report June 30, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report.<\/p>\n

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Black Bear Encounter On the South Branch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s July. Seems like I just woke up yesterday scrutinizing the weather report and thinking about the possibility of an afternoon Hendrickson hatch.\u00a0 April slipped quickly into May and that fishing pushed into the late nights of June and the Brown Drake and Hex hatch chase.\u00a0 It\u2019s all this lightning quick blur that somehow smudged two long months into a collage of electric memories.<\/p>\n

So much fishing and so many fish caught. It\u2019s been the year of the brook trout on all reaches of the Upper Rivers.\u00a0 Folks caught plenty and many were above average.\u00a0 It\u2019s been the year of the caddis and<\/p>\n

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A Beautiful Brown Trout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

of the little stoneflies.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen more of those flies than I can ever remember.\u00a0 In May it was lots of trout but not the big browns and folks started to theorize about the absence of trophy trout.\u00a0 Then the drakes and iso\u2019s came on and better trout started to show.\u00a0 But then, still, not the trophy fish.\u00a0 Hex changed that and long, heavy trout were brought to the net.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been one of the most stretched out Hex hatches we\u2019ve experienced in years and it just seems to keep going. This week will have many of us cooking S\u2019mores by the campfire and watching fireworks, but there will most certainly be fat bellied brown trout rising under the rocket\u2019s red glare.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had some more hatching on much of the Au Sable and just experienced an epic spinner dump on the Manistee River.\u00a0 There will be Hex to chase for those that can still muster the strength for the rest of the week . . . maybe more.\u00a0 And the fishing crowds are largely gone.<\/p>\n

But it is July, and for most of us that means morning and daytime fishing punctuated by an evening rise. There are still lots of hatches but few that command the devotion of the May and June events.<\/p>\n

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HEX on the water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That means that those many, many trout that are in the river will likely feed opportunistically to a wide berth of patterns.\u00a0 It\u2019s the to tie on a dry fly and ply the currents with ants and beetles and with mayfly patterns of all shapes and sizes that may just look like something that was plentiful and tasty just a few weeks ago.\u00a0 Prospecting with generic patterns is a great way to fish\u2014every cast, every drift has hope.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking I may just tie on a Royal Coachman and never look back.<\/p>\n

Early July is just another fine way to play the game and the board is set.<\/p>\n

Do your best to find some time on the river, and try to take someone new along with you.<\/p>\n

Good luck out there and I hope to see you all soon,<\/p>\n

Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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