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<\/a> of Northern Michigan with friends and family.<\/p>\nThe first morning I woke before dawn and considered how I\u2019d manage the chores I have to do and the woodsy fun I want to do.\u00a0 After checking the weather forecast, and my conscience, and weighing the options\u2014it was, after all, going to very likely be rainy\u2014my decision was made.\u00a0 Half way through the first cup of coffee, my path was clear.\u00a0 The hell with chores.\u00a0\u00a0 Carpe Diem I say.\u00a0 It roughly translates into; \u201cGo the wilds before you die\u201d as far as I\u2019m concerned.\u00a0 Or maybe it means \u201cseize the grouse\u201d or \u201cseize the fish\u201d.\u00a0 Either way, who cares?\u00a0 Latin is a dead language so you might just as well use it however you want.\u00a0 It\u2019s sorta like using trigonometry to formulate your grouse shot or your fly cast.\u00a0 Pointless.<\/p>\n
I burned some time on the two tracks and in the grouse covers with my Dad one day.\u00a0 We found birds and after gutting some shot shells, left the birds, in the spirit of conservation (of course), free to live One grouse flush lead to another that night and we followed each one and perfect dog work until we finally picked our heads up and realized we were lost under a cloudy sky.\u00a0 The realization you are lost seeps in quickly like water through old boots and you know immediately that there\u2019s not much you can do to fix things.\u00a0 We did our best to pick a line and stitched one treetop to another.\u00a0 Going straight in the Lower Peninsula will get you to a road sooner or later and, that night for us, it was later.\u00a0\u00a0 We hit the sandy trail just before midnight and without a flashlight it took another 45 minutes of shuffle steps to feel my way along the road and back to the truck.\u00a0 I\u2019d never been more relieved in my life.<\/p>\n It was good to get back on that horse and to relive a night, even a tough one, that we shared only together and that neither of us will ever forget.\u00a0 We\u2019ll also never disrespect the Michigan woods and not There\u2019s hardly a soul up here fishing right now, so if you\u2019d like to slip away you\u2019ll have just about as much water as you could want all to yourself.<\/p>\n Have a great week,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 1, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Spent three fine Fall days sitting on the Fly Shop bench.\u00a0 It\u2019s shoulder lowering to take a few days and spend them in the woods and waters of Northern Michigan with friends and family. The first morning I woke before dawn and considered how … 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":[202,151,148,152,84,7,149,5,153,158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"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=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> unhindered in the swamps.\u00a0 It was a great day.\u00a0 My Dad and I poked bravely into a heavy swamp cover that we found piles of birds in ten years ago.\u00a0 I say \u201cbravely\u201d because the last time we were in there, we went late in the day without GPS units and without compasses and without lighters and we nearly stayed the night under a cold, moonless October sky.<\/p>\n<\/a>forget all of the tools you just may need to find the road.\u00a0 Being prepared is not just for boy scouts.<\/p>\n