{"id":1136,"date":"2016-07-22T16:35:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T16:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:05:17","slug":"july-21-2016-river-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/22\/july-21-2016-river-report\/","title":{"rendered":"July 21, 2016 River Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Al Borchers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The dog days of Summer can make trout fishing tough.\u00a0 But we have yet to experience those doldrums on the trout streams of Northern Michigan.\u00a0 Deep and regular cool downs have kept the waters of our upper rivers, well, cool.\u00a0 Even better, the abrupt hot weather systems have rolled in behind the cold and the collision of the fronts has produced heavy rains.\u00a0 That\u2019s fantastic for our waters.\u00a0 Our streams are essentially spring fed and healthy doses of rain charges up the aquifers and get those springs pumping clean cold water into creeks and rivers.<\/p>\n

In short, the trout are having a fine Summer so far and the few fishermen that are finding time to spend on the water are reaping \"IMG_2452\"<\/a>the rewards.<\/p>\n

Tricos and olives are showing up in droves most mornings.\u00a0 Trico fishing can be tough.\u00a0 The patterns are small and on the best<\/p>\n

mornings, they hit the currents wing to wing, so the trout have thousands of naturals from which to choose.\u00a0 It\u2019s tricky to make your offering to stand out from the horde.\u00a0 You need accurate casts and perfectly timed drifts presented on spider web delicate tippet.\u00a0 Some anglers live for that tough, technical dry fly angling but, personally, I like the tricks that make it easier.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hopper\/dropper time.\u00a0 This technique is extremely effective.\u00a0 You simply knot a more visible lead fly onto the end of you leader, tie a thin length of tippet to the bend of that fly\u2019s hook and then twist on a wet fly to the end of that.\u00a0 It\u2019s a two fly rig.\u00a0 The lead fly becomes an indicator fly\u2014essentially a bobber with a hook in it.\u00a0 If the trout bites that bug then simply set the hook.\u00a0 If the fly is jerked under then set the hook\u2014you\u2019re getting a take on the wet fly.<\/p>\n

There are some fine choices for an indicator fly during the trico hatch.\u00a0 A favorite is the Robberfly.\u00a0 The Robberfly is a predacious bug that looks something like a big house fly that\u2019s been dipped in a<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a>Chernobyl cooling pond.\u00a0 They eat tricos and olives and occasionally fall helplessly to the water.\u00a0 Another is an old Au Sable pattern popularized by T.U. founding member George Griffith.\u00a0 The Griffith\u2019s Gnat is designed to look like a cluster of tricos matted together and it floats like a cork.<\/p>\n

Make your wet fly a trico wet and you\u2019ll find lots of success.<\/p>\n

You can continue to ply the two fly rig for the remainder of the afternoon.\u00a0 Just upsize the indicator fly to some sort of terrestrial or a rubber-legged attractor pattern and change the wet fly to a bigger nymph like a size 18 Pheasant Tail or Prince Nymph.\"IMG_2448\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Whatever you do this week, try to find some time in the cool waters of Northern Michigan.<\/p>\n

Hope to see you all soon,<\/p>\n

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

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