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<\/a>cabin shades, benched their boats, and stowed the patio furniture.\u00a0 Vacation time spent, younger couples have rightly shifted their focus from trips up North to school schedules, soccer games, and Friday night lights.\u00a0 And chants of \u201cGo State\u201d and \u201cGo Michigan\u201d as well as hopes of Tigers glory and Lions mediocrity will keep folks glued to the boob tube on many of the coming weekends.<\/p>\nThat means the woods and waters of Northern Michigan will likely be lonely in the coming months.\u00a0 As much as I love the hectic pace of the peak trout fishing in the prime months\u2014so called, the reason to be in the wild is to sink quietly into it.\u00a0 Now is the time for that.<\/p>\n
The salmon migration has also started and, though most of the fish are still staging at depth in the lakes, some salmon have started to push into rivers like the Betsie, Pere Marquette, and Manistee.\u00a0 The run will be thinner than it was at its peak in 2012, but by all accounts the fish being caught are big.<\/p>\n
The brook trout have also started podding up and migrating to spawning grounds.\u00a0 Of course, you\u2019ll find them in the larger rivers, but the heat of August pushes them to the smaller creeks and Cast and blast time starts next week.\u00a0 Grouse season goes off on the 15th<\/sup> and woodcock season follows on the 24th<\/sup>.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure we\u2019re you\u2019ll all be, but I know we\u2019re I\u2019ll be.<\/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 The great migration has begun.\u00a0 Many thousands of cars, trucks, and SUV\u2019s hit the blacktop trail after the holiday weekend and flowed southward from their Summer grounds.\u00a0 Folks pulled their docks and cabin shades, benched their boats, and stowed the patio furniture.\u00a0 Vacation time spent, younger couples … 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":[202,148,155,84,7,149,5,68,163,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"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=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> tributary streams as well.\u00a0 Those small streams will be open to angling until the end of September and are flat full of fish right now.\u00a0 It always amazes me that we target all sorts of wildlife on the cusp of their peak mating season, but we forget about brook trout in September.\u00a0 Some of the finest brook trout I\u2019ve ever taken fell foolish in the September push.<\/p>\n<\/a>And what can I say about grouse hunting?\u00a0 I\u2019m thankful that I don\u2019t have to make an exclusive choice between chasing those swamp chickens and plying the waters in the hopes of a bent rod.\u00a0 No good would come of it.<\/p>\n