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<\/a>broken the back of a hot, dry Summer and Fall is around the corner and in the air on the best days.\u00a0 Average daytime temperatures now should settle in the mid-seventies and the cool nights will warrant open windows and a thick blanket.<\/p>\nThe Summer trout fishing trends will largely continue for the next few weeks, but the bite should get just a little better under the high sun with overall cooler water temperatures.\u00a0 Look for tricos in the morning hours with olives hatching right on their heels.\u00a0 The tricos will start just a bit later on the chilly mornings, so look for those bugs in the nine o\u2019clock hour.\u00a0 Olives in size twenty and twenty-four should show in the late morning for a brook trout brunch.\u00a0 After that, it\u2019s flying ants headlining the terrestrial troop or it\u2019s attractor patterns like patriots, borchers, and skunks.<\/p>\n
Wet flies like soft hackles and small streamers have been extra effective in the absence of rising fish and anglers wanting a bend in So the status quo is steady and perhaps even improving in spots, but the best news is that the early Fall goodness is starting.\u00a0 The water temperatures below Mio are beginning to improve and that coupled with the start of the white fly hatch below the dam opens up a whole new game to play.\u00a0 The white flies are the last great hatch of the season and on the best nights offer some fine hatch match dry fly angling.\u00a0 If you get down there, be sure to stop by the Trophy Water\u2019s Fly Shop and see Bruce.\u00a0 He\u2019s been sending anglers away from the too warm water temperatures below the dam for nearly a And be sure to stop by the Old Au Sable.\u00a0 It\u2019s the end of Summer and we\u2019ve got super sales and deals on all sorts of great, brand name gear.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got deep discounts on everything from summer shorts to waders and raingear.\u00a0 You won\u2019t want to miss it.<\/p>\n Have a great week and I hope to see you soon,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. The rains came and all is well in the Au Sable River Valley.\u00a0 Perhaps the best aspect of life in Northern Michigan is in the weather changes.\u00a0 That is, at least, when the changes are in your favor.\u00a0 We\u2019ve broken the back of a hot, dry Summer … 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":[202,148,164,155,84,7,154,5,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"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=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> their rod would be foolish to ignore the subsurface possibilities.\u00a0 The hopper\/dropper tactic has continued to produce lots of action when all other efforts are snubbed.\u00a0 There are simply piles of young trout stirring in the center of our streams this season.<\/p>\n<\/a>month\u2014he\u2019s made a business sacrifice in order to save the trout down there and should be applauded.<\/p>\n